Northvolt and Norsk Hydro will take their battery recycling joint venture to Europe later this year after the Swedish start-up opened their first plant in Norway ~tech Link 5 votes
Norway seeks solution to looming EU tax on car batteries – batteries produced outside the UK or the EU after 2027 face a 10% customs tax ~finance Article 354 words 5 votes
California’s solar market is now a battery market ~enviro energy.renewable energy.alternative Article 937 words 12 votes
GM heralded this plant as a model for its electric car future. Then its batteries started exploding ~transport Article 2840 words 8 votes
Northvolt rolls out Europe's first gigafactory-era car battery – Swedish plant ramps up lithium ion cell production in race to profit from growing electric car demand ~transport Article 548 words 7 votes
Utrecht wants to be the first city to use its electric car fleet as a giant battery ~enviro Article 8 votes
Turning buildings into batteries? Concrete battery storage explained. ~engineering Video 10:51 3 votes
Tesla wanted $22,500 to replace a battery. An independent repair shop fixed it for $5,000. ~transport Article 651 words 10 votes
Silia Nanotechnology’s battery technology will launch in Whoop wearables ~tech Article 866 words 3 votes
GM recalls all Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicles, due to fire risk from high-voltage LG batteries ~transport Article 865 words 22 votes
The promise and peril of turning the Salton Sea into California's "Lithium Valley" ~enviro pollution Article 1269 words 8 votes
Tesla was found guilty of throttling charging speed and battery capacity through a software update in Norway – thirty owners behind the lawsuit awarded 136,000 kroner ~transport Article 461 words 8 votes
Swedish lithium-ion battery maker Northvolt gets $14 billion order as Volkswagen raises ownership ~transport Article 225 words 4 votes
Powerpaste ‘goo’ stores ten times the energy density of lithium-ion batteries ~science chemistry Article 727 words 19 votes
Power struggle: The most quietly innovative thing that emerged from the latter half of the 1990s was the on-battery power meter. It was the subject of a complex patent battle. ~tech Link 9 votes
Apple targets car production by 2024 and eyes 'next level' battery technology ~transport Article 709 words 14 votes
Electric vehicles' dirty secret: The race is on to find a steady source of lithium, a key component in rechargeable electric car batteries ~enviro Article 4469 words 12 votes
Panasonic explores a European battery deal with Norway's largest energy and industrial companies ~finance business Article 358 words 4 votes
Batteries, fuel cells powered by spinach ~science chemistry Article 601 words, published Oct 26 2020 6 votes
Here are Tesla’s biggest announcements from Battery Day: Elon Musk said the company will phase out cobalt and aims for a $25k car ~tech Article 653 words 18 votes
Apple will extend the lifespan of your AirPods by choosing when they charge ~tech apple Article 199 words 16 votes
Construction begins on world’s biggest liquid air battery ~tech Article 724 words, published Jun 18 2020 10 votes
New Tesla "million mile" battery in development that relies on little to no cobalt, poised to reshape auto economics ~science Link 7 votes
Apple changes default MacBook charging behavior to improve battery health—battery will charge to 80% by default ~tech apple Article 480 words 9 votes
IBM’s lithium-ion battery uses seawater materials instead of heavy metals, charges in just five minutes ~enviro water.sea energy.renewable Article 420 words 12 votes
Stable lithium-sulfur battery could see smartphones run for five days ~tech Article 514 words, published Jan 6 2020 6 votes
Apparently Samsung just put a removable battery in one of it's new phones ~tech android Article 559 words 6 votes
Battery pack prices fall as market ramps up with market average At $156/kWh in 2019 ~enviro Article 623 words, published Dec 3 2019 12 votes
The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino for their work on lithium-ion batteries ~science chemistry Article 773 words 8 votes
Researchers at Uppsala University have successfully created the world's first paper battery ~tech Link 6 votes
New standard Switch model coming in August/September will improve battery life forty to eighty percent ~games Article 311 words 13 votes
Are there potential downsides of going to 100% renewable energy? ~enviro conservation energy.renewable Article 2218 words 4 votes