A deceptively simple sensor system called Intellivent is developed at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) which can prevent dangerous conditions from developing in outdoor battery cabinets.Continue Reading
The news from BYD this week about its Blade Battery is important because many people are nervous about electric car batteries, fearing they will short circuit in a car washContinue Reading
Perhaps we are prophetic, but we have stated on several occasions that better batteries are on the way, which will eliminate range and charging worry. Today, Prieto, a Fort Collins,Continue Reading
This week, researchers at Kyoto University who are working in conjunction with Toyota announced the development of a fluoride-ion solid state battery with up to 7 times the energy densityContinue Reading
The bane of battery scientists are little things called dendrites — little spikes of lithium that can pierce battery cells and lead to fires or explosions. Dendrites are one ofContinue Reading
BYD is making waves in the world of electric cars with Han. It recently announced that its new lithium-iron-phosphate Blade Battery, that it claims is fire and explosion resistant whileContinue Reading
Chinese automaker BYD has developed new battery technology for its upcoming electric car BYD Han. The company calls it the Blade Battery Super Launching technology. These will be lithium-iron-phosphate (LFP)Continue Reading
Researchers at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium say they have discovered a new material they call LTPS — whose chemical composition is LiTi2(PS4)3 — that has the highestContinue Reading
