battery development, electric vehicles, new discoveries, solid-state batteries

Scientists Develop Long-Life Electrode Material for Solid-State Batteries Ideal for EVs

Scientists have developed a positive electrode material that doesn’t diminish after repeated charging cycles for the manufacture of durable solid-state batteries. Electric cars are widely regarded as our best bet to replace conventional cars with a more environment-friendly alternative. However, electric cars and other electric vehicles will most likely run on lithium-ion batteries, which currently ...

Troy Oakes

Ford Mustang Mach-E all-electric SUV plugged in and charging next to an office building.

Diamonds: The Future of Energy Storage

What do diamonds have to do with energy storage? Energy storage is one of the most important tech challenges that scientists are tackling right now. How do you make batteries more efficient, safer, and cheaper? This is a question that drives scientists to look into a myriad of options. Researchers from the Queensland University of ...

Armin Auctor

A cut diamond.

Tesla and the World’s First Million-Mile Battery

Tesla cars will soon have batteries that can last for a million miles. The batteries are being produced by a Chinese company called Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL), which signed a supply agreement with Tesla in February this year. With a life of a million miles, the battery might well outlast the car itself. The million-mile ...

Armin Auctor

A Tesla charging station.

EU Beats China in Electric Vehicle Investments

When it comes to the electric vehicle (EV) industry, headlines have always been dominated by Chinese companies, their rapid technological progress, market dominance, and so on. As such, it might come as a surprise to many that it isn’t China that’s attracted the most electric vehicle investments in 2019, but Europe. Last year, China only ...

Armin Auctor

Electric vehicle charging station.