In a 2021 remake of “The Graduate” (God forbid), the one word of advice that a family friend would offer Benjamin Braddock will be “batteries,” not “plastic.” While most of us only think about batteries when a mobile phone goes dead or a child’s toy stops, new battery technology will transform our lives and reshape […]
Battery fires: Industry and research must work together for safer batteries
According to a new review paper, published in Journal of The Electrochemical Society, industry leaders feel that battery safety standards do not represent real-world scenarios that could cause fires and are therefore not robust enough to prevent, detect, and suppress battery fires. The authors argue that better alignment of research and industry could address this […]
Tesla outlines ambition to halve cost of batteries
Tesla Battery Day: Expect Battery Costs to Drop by Half Within 3 Years
Changes in battery form factor, materials, supply chain and manufacturing could add up to game-changing savings, says Elon Musk. After much Muskian fanfare, Tesla’s Battery Day revealed a smattering of improvements to cut battery prices in half. Tesla CEO Elon Musk insists he measures the company’s success by the extent to which it accelerates the […]
Tesla Stock Could Be Worth $100 Billion More Thanks to One Thing: Batteries
Credit Suisse analyst Dan Levy increased his price target for Tesla stock to $400 from $280 Wednesday, a 40% jump that works out to more than $100 billion in additional market value. His reasoning is simple: batteries. Tesla (ticker: TSLA)—which currently has a market cap of more than $418 billion—will host its highly anticipated battery […]
Batteries see 149% increase in Balancing Mechanism activity
Research has found that there are significant changes in the technology type that has been providing balancing actions to the National Grid Electricity System Operator (ESO), with activity from newer asset types seeing the greatest year-on-year increase in the UK. The new ‘Balancing Mechanism report’ by UK energy market researcher Cornwall Insight, has found that […]
Stena gives Volvo bus batteries a second life
GOTHENBURG, Sweden : The commercial service lives of bus batteries are significantly extended and natural resources are conserved. That is the result of a new cooperation between Volvo Buses and Stena Recycling subsidiary Batteryloop. After the batteries are removed from Volvo’s buses, they are reused as energy storage units for a number of years, for […]
Popular car batteries for an uninterrupted and reliable driving experience
If your vehicle is parked for too long or if it is too old, replacing the car battery will not just ensure that the car is operational but it also provides more power to the engine. Even though new cars have a strong battery, a lot of car owners look to change batteries (after 5 […]
Solar tariffs reshaped to favour batteries, EVs, and west-facing panels
Western Australia has come out of the blocks with a strategy to manage the state’s booming rooftop solar market that includes extending grid export payments to home batteries and electric vehicles, and encouraging new solar systems to be installed facing the west. The Distributed Energy Buyback Scheme, or DEBS, was launched on Monday and will […]
Emerson Acquires OSI for $1.6B as Grid Edge Software Landscape Consolidates
OSI is expanding its portfolio of utility software to the growing market for integrating distributed energy into the grid. The growth of distributed energy resources such as rooftop solar, behind-the-meter batteries, electric vehicle chargers and intelligent load controls is changing the world of building energy management and pushing the world’s biggest building technology and controls […]
