Nov 13, 2025 | Batteries, Electric Vehicles, Featured, Recycling
With electric vehicles becoming mainstream, traditional battery recycling methods are struggling to keep pace. Manual disassembly is slow, hazardous and expensive, limiting the flow of reusable materials back into the supply chain. The new robotic system automates the...
Oct 23, 2025 | Batteries, Featured
This innovation could address some of the most pressing challenges in the transition to renewable energy sources. Efficient and cost-effective energy storage is crucial for stabilizing power grids that rely on intermittent sources like solar and wind. The startup’s...
Oct 16, 2025 | Batteries, Electric Vehicles
Every few weeks, it seems, yet another lab proclaims yet another breakthrough in the race to perfect solid-state batteries: next-generation power packs that promise to give us electric vehicles (EVs) so problem-free that we’ll have no reason left to buy gas-guzzlers....
Sep 18, 2025 | Batteries, Electric Vehicles, Featured
Panasonic aims to develop a new type of higher-capacity battery in about two years, potentially extending the driving range of electric vehicles in a groundbreaking advance for the Tesla supplier. The Japanese company is working on eliminating the anode in batteries...
Sep 4, 2025 | Batteries, Jobs, Michigan
In a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification letter filed with the state, Natron Energy, Inc. said it is closing both its manufacturing plant at 70 W. 48th St. near I-196 in Holland and its facility in California. A total of 95 employees, including 37 in...
Jul 31, 2025 | Batteries, Oceanography, Pollution, Robots
A 13mm-long black fish silently patrols the ocean, not to feed or predate, but to clean. Soft and squishy to touch, the flesh of this fish is made of the same material as pearls are made of. As it propels through the ocean, it magnetizes the plastic particles...
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