Tag: batteries

• The lightbulb of the 21st century: The battery revolution illuminates a new era

  September 1, 2024

  Increasingly affordable and more sophisticated, batteries are the key to generating a paradigm shift in global energy and economics Thomas Alva Edison took all the credit in 1879, but the… more ›

• New sodium battery that can be charged in seconds developed

  April 23, 2024

  Currently, available Sodium-ion energy storage systems are poor in rechargeability as they have a low power density while providing a relatively high energy density. Currently, two types of sodium storage… more ›

• Northvolt develops state-of-the-art sodium-ion battery validated at 160 Wh/kg

  November 21, 2023

  Stockholm, Sweden – Northvolt today announced a state-of-the-art sodium-ion battery, developed for the expansion of cost-efficient and sustainable energy storage systems worldwide. https://northvolt.com/articles/northvolt-sodium-ion/ more ›

• The dirty road to clean energy: how China’s electric vehicle boom is ravaging the environment

  December 5, 2022

  This March, a group of women gathered under the roof of a modest wooden shop in the Kurisa fishing village on Sulawesi, an Indonesian island east of Borneo. They held… more ›

• Battery icons shape perceptions of time and space and define user identities

  September 17, 2019

  New research from Cass Business School has found that battery icons on mobile phones shape how people view time and space, and how battery conservation practices define user identities. https://phys.org/news/2019-09-battery-icons-perceptions-space-user.html more ›