Lithium-Ion
Impossible Mining is combing the seafloor for battery metals
Impossible Mining CEO Oliver Gunasekara pulled me aside at last week’s TechCrunch Climate event with a fascinating pitch. Turns out there are a lot of valuable metals on the ocean floor — material
Creators of modern rechargeable batteries share Nobel prize
If you had to slip a couple AAs into your smartphone every morning to check your email, browse Instagram, and text your friends, chances are the mobile revolution would not have been quite so revoluti
Tesla’s newest product is a mobile battery pack to charge your phone
Apparently announcing a new all-electric Semi truck and the fastest production car ever made all in one week wasn’t enough for Tesla. They also quietly launched a third “product”, a
A123 Systems Spinoff 24M Technologies Raises $16 Million
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Boston-Power Recharges With $60 Million Funding For Lithium-Ion Batteries
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Traveling with batteries and ordering gadgets online could soon get pricey
Here are two totally unrelated things I like to do: order gadgets and smartphones online, and travel with loads of spare batteries. Well, perhaps they’re not all that unrelated. Both offer a lot
Longer life lithium-ion batteries coming to a hybrid near you
Hybrid and plug-in vehicles have been plagued by poor battery performance in the past. The next-gen rides simply do not offer that much MPG improvement because of the lackluster batteries, but LG Ch
Dell Recalls 4.1 Million Fire-Prone Notebook Batteries
Dell announced a recall of 4.1 million notebook computer batteries, warning users that it’s possible they could catch fire. Although company didn’t say the batteries would explode, it did