Harvesting Energy from Cellphone Calls
Sounds incredible but the scientists from Korea have turned the main ingredient of calamine lotion into a tiny material that converts sound waves into electricity.
Just...
Four times more mileage for electric vehicles with Redox Flow Batteries
Electric vehicles are the future best environmental friendly solution for city transport.
Following this idea the German government plans to have one million electric vehicles...
IBM develops lithium-air battery to overcame 100 miles range
The range covered by electric vehicles remains the most important issue.
Today’s lithium-ion batteries are much better than NiMH batteries, but don’t offer enough energy...
PowerTrekk- Portable Battery Charger and Fuel Cell
PowerTrekk is a pocket size, lightweight charger for users who spend time away from the electricity grid.
Providing instant power anywhere, PowerTrekk uses advanced fuel...
Nissan Leaf to Home the Electric Car Charging Station As Energy Storage
After the Fukushima’s disaster Nissan developed the electric car home charging station able to power homes in case of blackout.
This new two-way electric car...
Sharing power between electric-powered vehicles and homes
Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) announces that it has developed a vehicle to home1(V2H) system for the mutual sharing of power between electric-powered vehicles, such...
Hydrogen and graphene
Graphene has engendered high expectations whereof its extreme properties depend on the fact that it consists of a single sheet of carbon atoms.
However the...
Lithium–air battery – developed by IBM- that aims to increase the range of electrovehicles...
IBM’s Battery 500 project, led by scientists at IBM Research – Almaden in California, is an interdisciplinary consortium to develop a lithium–air battery that...
Eos Energy Storage propose us to fill up an electric car battery like a...
What would you say when next generation electric car could refuel the battery the same way you would fill up usual car now in...
Cheap liquid batteries that could make renewable energy sources viable
The biggest drawback to many real or proposed sources of clean, renewable energy is their intermittency: The wind doesn’t always blow, the sun doesn’t...