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    EU Votes To Mandate Replaceable Batteries For Electronics

    The European Union has voted to require manufacturers to equip devices with user replaceable batteries. Several years ago device manufacturers dropped the ball on...

    EV Batteries Being Repurposed To Build Chargers

    The North Tyneside Council -- located in Northeast England is launching a project that re-purposes old electric vehicle batteries to build charging stations. This...

    Ample Offers 5-Minute Battery Swaps As Alternative To EV Charging

    Ample is offering a next generation battery swapping service that can swap electric vehicle batteries in only 5 minutes. The concept of electric vehicle...

    Li-Cycle Intends To Provide Li-Ion Battery Materials Via Recycling

    Li-Cycle -- a company based in the Italian region of Portovsme intends to produce the materials for lithium-ion battery manufacturing via recycling. Li-Cycle and...

    Old Wind Turbine Blades Will Be Used To Store Energy

    Wind turbines have grown as a leading source of renewable energy due to their many benefits, including their low electricity cost. Their opponents frequently...

    USU Team Builds Solar Energy Systems With Spent Electric Vehicle Batteries

    A team of researchers from the Utah Power Electronics Lab at Utah State University has developed solar energy systems using discarded electric vehicle batteries....

    Software Update To Give Tesla Powerwall A Huge Boost In Output

    The Tesla Powerwall 2 will receive a software update that increases its power output significantly, now that Powerwall usage data shows that (at least...

    Tesla Developing Car Battery That Lasts A ‘Million Miles’

    Electric vehicles have long been seen as a promising alternative to gasoline-powered cars, except with an Achilles heel -- batteries. While that was true...

    New 500 Wh/kg Battery Could Triple Battery Life

    A new battery could triple phone battery life and give electric cars ~630 miles range per charge, all while improving performance (via weight reduction).

    Energy Stored In Stones Could Power Denmark For Hours

    A high-temperature thermal energy storage (HT-TES) system has been developed in Denmark, which stores thermal energy (heat) in stones and recovers it during low-wind...

    Nissan Leaf Approved To Supply Energy To Germany’s Power Grid

    The Nissan Leaf electric car has been approved for vehicle-to-grid (V2G) connections by German regulators, making it the first electric car to get such...

    The Case For Solar Net Metering With Energy Storage

    Rooftop solar systems have been catching on in recent years, and the three most common configurations for these systems are: Net metered with no...

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