Energy Storage
Solid-State Batteries: Hype vs. Reality
If you’ve been following battery tech for the past decade, you’ve heard the solid state battery story before. Toyota promised them by 2025. ...
Energy Storage
The Surprising Battery Discovery No One Saw Coming
We’ve been told for years that fast-charging kills batteries. The typical warning is that if you spring for too much current too quickly, ...
Energy Storage
How CATL Made Batteries 90% Cheaper (And What Happens Next)
What if I told you the world’s largest battery company just announced batteries that cost as low as $10 per kilowatt hour? Not ...
Energy Storage
How Blood Holds the Secret to Better, Cheaper Batteries
This Battery Has Blood In It (Kinda). What if the secret to next-generation batteries is circulating in your blood, and the blueprint for ...
Energy Storage
How Structural Batteries Just Got 10X Better
When is a battery more than just a battery? That’s not a riddle. A battery is more than a battery when it’s also ...
Energy Storage
Why the Biggest Battery Company is Betting Against Lithium
Sodium-ion battery technology isn’t exactly new, but something interesting is happening. CATL, the world’s biggest lithium battery manufacturer, says that up to half ...
Energy Storage
How This Battery Runs on Sugar… Seriously
You’ve heard of paper straws and cups, but how about a paper battery? One you can compost when you’re done with it. Two ...
Energy Storage
How This Overlooked Battery Might Change Everything
Lithium-sulfur batteries were once kind of a joke. A chemistry so unstable and unreliable that no one took them seriously. But now? Multiple ...
Energy Storage
Why Isn’t This Revolutionary Battery Everywhere?
Vanadium redox flow batteries are hitting the bigtime, and I mean big. One of the biggest Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESSs) ever is ...
Energy Storage
Why This Ultra Cheap Battery Breakthrough Matters
Solid-state batteries could address some of the biggest issues facing energy storage and EVs; safety, charge capacity, and longevity. But the biggest problem ...
