Solar Battery Housing Concept Neat Looking

Solar Cell Battery

The Light Catcher Solar AA and AAA battery concept houses a simple solar cell inside a transparent casing to harvest juice and provide it to your portables. Read more →

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Tesla Motors EV Batteries To Be Recycled

Tesla Roadster

Spent batteries from Tesla Roadsters and other electric vehicles will be recycled by Umicore into more lithium ion batteries and special grades of concrete. Read more →

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Detroit Auto Show: Johnson Controls ie:3

ie3, Johnson Controls

Johnson Controls shows an EV concept with the battery fitted under a flat floor, giving designers and engineers much more interior space to play with. Read more →

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2nd Life for Electric Vehicle Batteries?

electric vehicles

Duke Energy and ITOCHU are collaborating on a pilot project to asses the second-life market for used electric vehicle batteries in various power storage apps. Read more →

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Second Life Leaf Battery Uses Examined

Nissan is working with Sumitomo Corporation to figure out what usefulness its lithium-ion Leaf EV batteries could have after removed from the cars. Read more →

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Volt Battery Greener End of Life Future?

Volt Battery Energy Storage

GM is exploring alternative uses for Volt electric car batteries which have outlived usefulness in the car, including as a source of renewable energy storage. Read more →

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Tesla Battery Drives Solar Power Storage

SolarCity, Tesla Motors and UC Berkeley plan to collaborate on a California government funded project focused on solar storage technologies. Read more →

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Lab For Cutting Edge Batteries Expands

ALSUSB

The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory announced the recent expansion of lab space aimed at helping researchers to develop better batteries. Read more →

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NREL Seeks Better EV Battery Design Tool

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory has put out a call for ideas, which would be funded, for better design tools for electric vehicle batteries. Read more →

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Electric Vehicle Investments Making Good

A recent report from the U.S. Department of Energy shows that public and private investment in electric vehicles and related batteries is stimulating growth and innovation. Read more →

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