Researchers crack a key problem with sodium-ion batteries for …
WEB1 day ago · Lithium-ion batteries have long dominated the market as the go-to power source for electric vehicles. They are also increasingly being considered for storage of renewable energy to be used on the ...
How sodium could change the game for batteries - MIT Technology Review
WEBMay 11, 2023 · Sodium-ion batteries, which swap sodium for the lithium that powers most EVs and devices like cell phones and laptops today. Sodium-ion batteries could squeeze their way into some corners of...
New Sodium-Ion Battery To Charge An Electric Vehicle In Seconds
WEBMay 3, 2024 · New research indicates that sodium-ion EV batteries could charge up in seconds, not minutes. That not only races past the best lithium-ion technology on the market today, it also beats gas...
Charging future EVs could take seconds with new sodium-ion battery …
WEBMay 3, 2024 · A new type of hybrid sodium-ion battery that offers both high capacity and rapid-charging capabilities could power mobile devices, electric vehicles and space tech.
A breakthrough in inexpensive, clean, fast-charging batteries
WEBJul 3, 2024 · Scientists have created an anode-free sodium solid-state battery. This brings the reality of inexpensive, fast-charging, high-capacity batteries for electric vehicles and grid storage closer...
Sodium-ion batteries shaping up to be big technology breakthrough - CNBC
WEBMay 10, 2023 · Excitement around sodium-ion batteries picked up after the world’s largest EV battery maker, Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Limited (CATL), revealed in …
Cobalt-free batteries could power cars of the future - MIT News
WEBJan 18, 2024 · MIT researchers have now designed a battery material that could offer a more sustainable way to power electric cars. The new lithium-ion battery includes a cathode based on organic materials, instead of cobalt or nickel (another metal often used in …
Manganese cathodes could boost lithium-ion batteries
WEB3 days ago · Rechargeable lithium-ion batteries are growing in adoption, used in devices like smartphones and laptops, electric vehicles, and energy storage systems. But supplies of nickel and cobalt commonly ...
Port of Los Angeles Closes Terminals After Lithium Battery Fire
WEB1 day ago · Sept. 27, 2024, 2:50 a.m. ET. A tractor-trailer carrying large lithium-ion batteries overturned on a highway in Los Angeles on Thursday, sparking a fire, closing part of a freeway and terminals at ...
The new car batteries that could power the electric vehicle
WEBFeb 7, 2024 · Today, most electric cars run on some variant of a lithium-ion battery. Lithium is the third-lightest element in the periodic table and has a reactive outer electron, making its ions great...