Battery Technology

Battery Technology

Electric vehicle in blue being charged with a white charging cable against a blue background.
The US needs 28 million EV chargers by 2030. Here’s how it can get there.
A hand holding tweezers grips a small black square against a blue background with concentric white circles.
The lithium-ion alternatives could help create a safer, greener future.
An image of an EV car with a map on it.
A $30,000 electric vehicle with 400 miles of range that charges in under 10 minutes remains a pipe dream over the near future.
Challenges conventional electric vehicle myths by highlighting a car with an attached battery.
We're separating the facts about EVs from the fiction.
What if we could harvest energy from human heat, sweat, or vibrations?
Jetoptera's VTOL
One of Jetoptera's VTOLs is expected to reach speeds of around 614 mph, about as fast as a commercial jet airliner.
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Lithium-ion batteries pose challenges for our transition toward renewable energy. Sodium-sulfur batteries might be a solution.
Short-hop regional flights could be running on batteries in a few years.
e-bike
The Rubbee X requires almost no setup and is far cheaper than a brand new e-bike.
More than 150 companies are developing flying cars. Here's why they're aren't yet off the ground and darting across city skies.
From Amazon to the US Army, everybody wants one (or 150).
augmented reality
For the very first time, an AR contact lens was worn on the eye of a human subject. And it has about 30 times the pixel density of an iPhone.
Now they're pointing the way to future battery technologies.
lithium-sulfur batteries
A lucky discovery involving lithium-sulfur batteries has a legitimate chance to revolutionize how we power our world.
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A century ago, electric cars were common. The fact that they were almost entirely replaced due to the internal combustion engine is a testament to the glacial pace of battery breakthroughs.
flying cars
Battery-powered urban aircraft are well within the bounds of technological reality.