Press releases about breakthroughs in charging speed rarely mention how many different subsystems must work together before a driver ever notices a change at the plug. The nanoball work at MIT solved ...

Li-ion batteries used in electric vehicles are designed for long service life but will eventually lose capacity and need replacement. A group of researchers at Toyota Central R&D Labs in Japan found a ...

In brief: If you're someone who uses gadgets until every drop of life has been squeezed out of them, then this battery tech might be right up your alley. A Chinese research team has devised a clever ...

Drinking tea is a great way to recharge your batteries, and it turns out that compounds in tea work the same way for dead lithium-ion batteries as well, according to new research. In a news release ...

Individually, each battery cell is small and seemingly insignificant. However, when hundreds of these cells are connected in series and parallel, they comprise the principal component of an electric ...

Lithium-metal batteries, which use metallic lithium as the anode, show great promise as the next generation of rechargeable batteries. It is generally thought that ‘calendar ageing’ of these batteries ...