Printable Batteries and Other ARPA-E Funded Battery Projects
Solid-state lithium-ion battery design by Planar Energy can deliver a three times energy density of today’s lithium-ion batteries at less than half the cost...
Fast Charging Time for Chevy Spark
The primarily inconvenience for an electric vehicle is the charge time. Now with the fast charging, a tremendous difference appeared. The Chevy spark is...
Power source for implants by breathing energy
Instead of using traditional batteries as a power source which require to be cut for replacing them with new ones, now there are various...
Extreme testing for rotor blades
Wind turbines are growing bigger and bigger – the diameter of their rotor blades could soon reach 180 meters. But that creates a need...
Liquid fuel to store electricity produced by solar panels
A new method of converting carbon dioxide into liquid fuel isobutanol using electricity produced by solar panels was developed by researchers at the UCLA...
The World’s Smallest Battery
A benchtop version of the world’s smallest battery — its anode a single nanowire one seven-thousandth the thickness of a human hair — has...
Eton Mobius iPhone 4 comes with a solar charging case
Nowadays the abundance of mobile solar charging options is very natural. For this reason the appearance of a solar charging case for a smart...
The first solar powered vehicle available in North America
The Solar Bug is a solar-electric vehicle which travels more than 30 miles on a full charge at speeds up to 35 miles per...
HyperSolar will produce hydrogen gas using solar power
HyperSolar develops a zero carbon method to produce hydrogen gas from wastewater using solar power. Hydrogen gas is a clean source of fuel which...
Quantum dots to increase the efficiency of solar cells up to 45 percent
By tweaking the smallest of parts, a trio of University at Buffalo engineers is hoping to dramatically increase the amount of sunlight that solar...