Mar 13, 2025 | Batteries, Charging, Electric Vehicles
Shop around for a new car and you’ll come across an array of acronyms. There’s BEVs (battery electric vehicles), HEVs (hybrid electric vehicles), PHEVs (plug-in hybrid electric vehicles), and of course that’s all in contrast to ICE (internal combustion engine) cars....
Feb 20, 2025 | Batteries, Electric Vehicles
A new kind of battery could make American EVs cheaper and safer, experts say. But first, it will have to overcome trade barriers between the United States and China. If you bought an EV with a lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery, you could expect lower car payments,...
Feb 10, 2025 | Batteries, BEV, Electric Vehicles
The car-shopping sites Autotrader and KBB.com have begun publishing scores for the battery health of thousands of used electric vehicles. The information comes straight from the vehicles’ onboard diagnostic systems. The sites’ information is months...
Feb 6, 2025 | Batteries, Electric Vehicles
Toyota Battery Manufacturing North Carolina (TBMNC), Toyota’s first in-house battery manufacturing plant outside Japan, is ready to begin production and will start shipping batteries for North American electrified vehicles in April. The nearly $14 billion...
Jan 30, 2025 | Batteries, Robots
Cornell University researchers are building soft robots with “robot blood” that is both hydraulic fluid that provides motive force and at the same time a battery that stores and delivers energy required to power the robots. The resulting body configurations are ideal...
Jan 30, 2025 | Batteries, Featured
Earlier this week, scientists from both institutions announced the creation of a diamond battery that leverages the decaying power of isotope carbon-14—the same isotope used in carbon dating. This isotope is useful for archaeologists because its half-life...
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