Preventing car battery fires with help from machine learning
One of the most critical safety concerns for electric vehicles is keeping their batteries cool, as temperature spikes can lead to dangerous consequences.
Sep 4, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Developing EV battery enclosures with lower carbon emissions
More charging power, higher range, lower environmental impact: In the COOLBat joint research project, researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology IWU have teamed up with partners to ...
Sep 2, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Scalable graphene technology could significantly enhance battery safety and performance
Researchers at Swansea University, in collaboration with Wuhan University of Technology, Shenzhen University, have developed a pioneering technique for producing large-scale graphene current collectors.
Aug 29, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Researchers discover a surprising way to jump-start battery performance
A lithium-ion battery's very first charge is more momentous than it sounds. It determines how well and how long the battery will work from then on—in particular, how many cycles of charging and discharging it can handle ...
Aug 29, 2024
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Giant batteries to store wind and solar power could speed up South Africa's energy transition
South Africa is at a pivotal moment in its energy transition: trying to decarbonize its economy (move away from coal) and make sure that everyone has access to reliable and affordable energy. Storage of renewable energy is ...
Aug 28, 2024
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NZ energy crisis: Electricity demand will jump as NZ decarbonizes—can renewable generation keep up?
The prime minister has called it an "energy security crisis" and signaled a review of New Zealand's electricity market as wholesale prices spike and industries suffer.
Aug 28, 2024
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LiMnO₂ electrodes could replace Ni/Co in electric vehicle batteries
Lithium-ion (or Li-ion) batteries are heavy hitters when it comes to the world of rechargeable batteries. As electric vehicles become more common in the world, a high-energy, low-cost battery utilizing the abundance of manganese ...
Aug 26, 2024
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Study of disordered rock salts leads to battery breakthrough
For the past decade, disordered rock salt has been studied as a potential breakthrough cathode material for use in lithium-ion batteries and a key to creating low-cost, high-energy storage for everything from cell phones ...
Aug 26, 2024
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Redox-active metal-organic framework developed for Li batteries in freezing conditions
The Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER) has developed a redox-active metal-organic hybrid electrode material (SKIER-5) for Li batteries that remains stable in cold conditions as low as minus 20 degrees Celsius. By addressing ...
Aug 22, 2024
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Dormant capacity reserve in lithium-ion batteries detected
Lithium iron phosphate is one of the most important materials for batteries in electric cars, stationary energy storage systems and tools. It has a long service life, is comparatively inexpensive and does not tend to spontaneously ...
Aug 21, 2024
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