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Roundtables – How China Got Ahead on EVs

Roundtables – How China Got Ahead on EVs

How China Got Ahead on EVs Speakers: Zeyi Yang, China reporter, Amanda Silverman, Features & investigations editor, and Abby Ivory-Ganja, Sr engagement editor In the race to produce and sell more electric vehicles, China has emerged as the unexpected winner. If you visit Shanghai or Shenzhen today, it feels like half of the cars running […]

Roundtables – Building a Cleaner Future: Better Batteries and Their Materials

Roundtables – Building a Cleaner Future: Better Batteries and Their Materials

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How water could make safer batteries

How water could make safer batteries

There’s also growing concern about fires started by e-bikes in New York City. These fires, which can be deadly, have mostly been caused by bikes that aren’t repaired correctly or use substandard batteries, highlighting the need for regulation and tight quality control of batteries.  What it comes down to is this: lithium-ion batteries can catch […]

Zinc batteries that offer an alternative to lithium just got a big boost

Zinc batteries that offer an alternative to lithium just got a big boost

Today, lithium-ion batteries are the default choice to store energy in devices from laptops to electric vehicles. The cost of these kinds of batteries has plummeted over the past decade, but there’s a growing need for even cheaper options. Solar panels and wind turbines only produce energy intermittently, and to keep an electrical grid powered […]

How new batteries could help your EV charge faster

How new batteries could help your EV charge faster

To increase a battery’s total capacity, these anodes can be made with thicker layers of material, meaning there will be lots of space for ions to slot into. However, in batteries with thicker anodes, some of the storage space will be deep within the layers, so ions will have to travel farther to get there, […]

What new federal funding will mean for making batteries

What new federal funding will mean for making batteries

In total, there’s $2.8 billion for 20 projects across 19 companies. (Ascend Elements, a recycling and refining company, won two grants for two different steps in their process, totaling nearly half a billion dollars.)  Here’s what stuck out to me about the awards:  The funding is largely for commercialization, not research, so there’s a lot […]

US-built EV batteries, and California’s monkeypox emergency

US-built EV batteries, and California’s monkeypox emergency

The news: The US Senate Democrats released a bill last week that could significantly cut the country’s carbon emissions. One of the bill’s key components is an extension of electric vehicle tax credits, which are designed to help push adoption of EVs by giving buyers $7,500 credit towards purchasing a qualifying new electric vehicle, or […]

This company wants to use carbon dioxide to store renewable power on the grid

This company wants to use carbon dioxide to store renewable power on the grid

Compressing gases to store energy isn’t new: for decades, a few facilities around the world have been pumping air into huge underground caverns under pressure and then using it to generate electricity in a natural gas power plant. But Energy Dome turned to carbon dioxide because of its physics. Carbon dioxide, when squeezed to high […]

These plastic batteries could help store renewable energy on the grid

These plastic batteries could help store renewable energy on the grid

Conductive polymers could wind up being a major player in grid storage, but whether that happens will likely depend on how quickly the company can scale up its technology and, crucially, how much the batteries cost, says Susan Babinec, who leads the energy storage program at Argonne National Lab.  Some research points to $20 per […]