Saft has recently launched a new product in the Xcelion line, the Xcelion 56V lithium-ion battery, offering customers a variant on the proven technology behind the Xcelion 6T for applications requiring higher voltage. As the third Xcelion product, the Xcelion 56V builds upon the existing technology behind the Xcelion 6T, launched in 2015, and the Xcelion…

A new, much narrower width retainer for CR2032 and CR2025 coin cells is now available as part of the extensive battery connectivity line of products offered by Keystone Electronics. This new retainer features an extremely narrow profile and is designed for battery insertion and removal from both directions. The retainer is engineered with dual springs…

Numerous efforts are being made to improve battery technology for longer life and reliability. Many of these efforts have revolved around new or modified battery chemistries. University of Tokyo researchers are betting that using a new material for the inner battery metallic layer could hold the secret to longer battery life. The research, led by […]

Electric vehicle company BYD will partner with energy solutions provider Apparent to develop a 2-MW solar and 2-MWh energy storage project at its Lancaster, California, coach and bus manufacturing plant, demonstrating the company’s mission to be a total green energy solution provider. BYD will own and operate the project utilizing BYD solar panels and batteries…

Wearable electronic components incorporated directly into fabrics have been developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge. The devices could be used for flexible circuits, healthcare monitoring, energy conversion, and other applications. The Cambridge researchers, working in collaboration with colleagues at Jiangnan University in China, have shown how graphene – a two-dimensional form of carbon […]

NeoVolta has received approval from the California Energy Commission to connect its NV14 home energy storage system to California’s state regulated electricity grid. Approval immediately opens NeoVolta’s energy storage solutions to California’s existing 940,000 solar installations that generate nearly 17% of all of California’s electricity. By storing energy instead of sending it back to the grid, consumers…

Researchers have built a more efficient, more reliable potassium-oxygen battery, a step toward a potential solution for energy storage on the nation’s power grid and longer-lasting batteries in cell phones and laptops. In a study published Friday in the journal Batteries and Supercaps, researchers from The Ohio State University detailed their findings centering around the construction…

By improving a water-in-salt battery prototype, researchers believe they are well on their way to developing new high energy batteries. A team from the University of Maryland (UMD) and the U.S. Army Research Lab (ARL) have created a new type of chemical transformation of the cathode that yields, for the first time ever, a reversible…

A trio of researchers with the University of Wollongong, in Australia, has published an outline of the current state of potassium-ion battery technology. In their Review piece published in the journal Science Advances, Wenchao Zhang, Yajie Liu, and Zaiping Guo highlight the current roadblocks that are preventing widespread use of the battery technology and possible workarounds…

Scientists must often ask themselves, compared to what? How do the results we generate in the laboratory compare with those obtained by others? How do our theoretical calculations compare with experimental data? Answering such questions is especially crucial for researchers and developers of lithium-ion batteries. Invented four decades ago, lithium-ion batteries now power most portable […]