Kelsey Hatzell, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, has received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development grant. The five-year, $515,600 grant— Understanding Interfaces in Solid State Energy Storage Systems and Cross-Disciplinary Education—begins June 1, 2019. Advanced lithium-ion batteries for vehicles and for renewable electricity grid storage could improve domestic energy security but performance gaps […]
The Future of Lithium-Ion Batteries: Can They Really Change the World?
Lithium-ion batteries were first introduced commercially in the year 1991 by Sony. Ever since then, there have been extensive improvements and countless research to enhance the performance of these batteries. Lithium-ion batteries are indispensable today when we talk about the life quality of people in modern society. It can easily be called a dominant technology […]
Researchers learn how to better predict battery degradation
Some electric-car owners go to great lengths to preserve the battery life in their electric cars. Others just plug them in every time they’re finished driving and charge them up to full. Maybe, according to new research announced earlier this week, the durability of batteries can be determined after only the first few charge cycles, […]
Tesla Installs 7 Megawatt-Hour Battery for Emergency Power at a Japanese Railway
Amid the tumult of its automotive business, Tesla’s energy storage group keeps installing record-setting, grid-scale batteries. Tesla just installed its largest energy storage project in Asia to date — and deploying the hardware took just two days. (Here’s a time lapse of the build on Instagram.) According to Tesla, the 7 megawatt-hour installation in Osaka, […]
24M Unveils ‘Dual Electrolyte’ Battery Tech to Unlock Higher Energy Density
If commercialized, this design could produce lithium metal batteries that pack twice as much energy as what’s on the market today. Battery materials startup 24M revealed Wednesday that it has developed a “dual electrolyte” architecture that could unlock significant gains in battery performance for electric vehicles. The ongoing effort to improve lithium-ion batteries triggers a […]
Jaguar I-Pace range, electric BMWs, Ford factories, Fisker batteries: Today’s Car News
BMW plans to have 10 plug-in models by next year. Ford announces where it plans to build a wider array of upcoming electric cars. Fisker postpones plans for solid-state batteries. And we assess why the Jaguar I-Pace has made us more anxious than other EVs. All this and more on Green Car Reports. At its […]
24M Unveils ‘Dual Electrolyte’ Battery Tech to Unlock Higher Energy Density
If commercialized, this design could produce lithium metal batteries that pack twice as much energy as what’s on the market today. Battery materials startup 24M revealed Wednesday that it has developed a “dual electrolyte” architecture that could unlock significant gains in battery performance for electric vehicles. The ongoing effort to improve lithium-ion batteries triggers a […]
How three battery types work in grid-scale energy storage systems
Back in 2017, GTM Research published a report on the state of the U.S. energy storage market through 2016. The study projects that by 2021 deployments of stored energy — a combination of residential, non-residential, and utility systems — will grow to over 2 GW, over 10 times greater than current levels. Such a drastic […]
Lithium-Ion Batteries Explained By Fully Charged: Video
A New Path to Market for Flow Batteries: Rent an Electrolyte
The newfangled arrangement lowers the upfront price of vanadium flow batteries, potentially making them more competitive with lithium. When you’re competing with mass-produced lithium-ion batteries, every bit of cost reduction counts. The dominant energy storage technology benefits from massive economies of scale. Flow batteries, a major class of alternative storage technologies, lack that scale, and […]