A recent study, led by Professor JaePhil Cho in the School of Energy and Chemical Engineering at UNIST has unveiled a new anode material, designed to help speed up fast charging in new elect... Read more
High-performance lithium ion batteries face a major problem: Lithium will eventually start to run out as batteries are deployed in electric cars and stationary storage units. Researchers fro... Read more
The greenest cars on the market —electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids — have attracted very few buyers so far. But instead of scaling back, major automakers are eager to bring more battery-... Read more
UBC researchers came up with so-called “remote magnetic gears,” Researchers at the University of British Columbia say they’ve found a way around the nuisance and potential... Read more
Until there’s some huge revolution in battery technology, electric vehicles are destined to remain as urban runabouts, never going out on long highway trips … right? Well, not if Germa... Read more
It all comes down to the price of the lithium-ion battery GETTING the equivalent of 106 mpg (2.2 litres/100km), the Nissan Leaf electric car would seem a motoring skinflint’s dream co... Read more
Social Entrepreneurship In our social entrepreneurship series, The World at Work, Mashable interviews the faces behind the startups and projects that are working to make a global impa... Read more
“Solar has dropped like a stone” About a year ago the CEO of power company NRG Energy, David Crane, said he thought that the future of the green technology industry would rest on consumers,... Read more
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Academics have some ideas, but the ethics are troubling. We’re the ones causing the problem, so maybe there are biological fixes that could make humanity consume fewer resources. Academics h... Read more
Suppes said his battery design could cut the cost by at least half A University of Missouri professor is in the process of developing a new car battery that he believes will be the breakthro... Read more
Imagine a car that runs quietly, burns no gas, produces no emissions, stores renewable energy, and sometimes even pays you back. Seem like a pipe dream? Soon it won’t be. Vehicle-to-grid tec... Read more
WITH electric cars and plug-in hybrids at last trickling into the showrooms of mainstream automakers, the dream of going gasoline-free is becoming a reality for many drivers. Cars like the N... Read more
EDL researchers have built prototype equipment that allows electricity to hop over a 10-inch span with 90 percent efficiency. Batteries are the key challenge to developing practical electric... Read more
Can a new, global standard take on an existing, widespread fast-charging system? Plus, a timeline of electric-vehicle milestones To most Americans electric cars are as new a concept as the f... Read more
