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Cheaper Ultracapacitors for Electric Vehicles

Nanotune created supercapacitors which are comparable to lead acid batteries and they are even economically competitive with them due to their longer lifespan. As with any new technology, we will just...

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Improved Electrolyte Claimed to Facilitate Vastly Improved Batteries

  Researchers have been experimenting with lithium-ion concepts that could improve the energy density of lithium-ion batteries significantly, but they all have their drawbacks and limitations....

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Drexel’s Energy Flow Capacitor: Is Grid-Level Electrical Storage Here Now?

A Drexel University research team has developed energy storage technology that it believes can solve a vexing problem: how to cost-effectively store intermittent electrical energy from renewable...

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A Breakthrough In Energy Storage: Graphene Micro Supercapacitors

By Nicole Miller Imagine plugging in your smartphone for thirty seconds and then continuing the rest of your day with a fully charged phone. Then imagine plugging in your electric vehicle for less time...

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Graphene Supercapacitors — Next-Generation Energy Storage Now One Step Closer

This article has been reposted from Green Building Elements.An entirely new strategy for engineering graphene-based supercapacitors has been developed by researchers at Monash University — potentially...

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Energy-Dense Supercapacitors Based On Graphene

Researchers at Monash University, led by Professor Dan Li of the Department of Materials Engineering, have developed a graphene-based supercapacitor (sometimes these are called ultracapacitors) which...

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High Temperature Capacitor Could Boost Electric Vehicle Reliability

A new capacitor design which can better handle the temperatures in electric vehicles has been developed as part of the Advanced Capacitors for Energy Storage (ACES) project, a technology strategy board...

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Toyota Goes All Hybrid For The Frankfurt Motor Show

At the upcoming 2013 Frankfurt Motor Show, the Toyota stand will stand out in a rather subtle way, it will consist only of hybrid vehicles. One of the vehicles on display will be the 3-door Yaris...

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Lithium-ion Batteries vs Fuel Cells (+ Lithium-air Batteries & Graphene...

During my recent trip to Ukraine, I had the opportunity to chat with an ultracapacitor/supercapacitor and EV battery expert, Vadim Utkin, CEO of Yunasko. Below are a couple of quite interesting videos...

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Energy Storage On Silicon Chips — New Supercapacitor Creates Interesting...

The first supercapacitor composed of silicon was recently created by researchers at Vanderbilt University — the novel supercapacitor opens up a number of very interesting possibilities with regard to...

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New Graphene + Carbon Nanotube Supercapacitor Rivals Lithium Battery

An international team of researchers has come up with a recipe for a microscale flexible energy storage device made of graphene and carbon nanotubes, which can store enough energy to rival the gold...

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Faster Acceleration In EVs With New Supercapacitor Improvement? New Research...

Could electric vehicles (EVs) soon get a big boost to their acceleration thanks to new, improved supercapacitors? The researchers behind an interesting new development in the field think so — thanks to...

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Home, Sweet Supercapacitor

Researchers at Vanderbilt University are developing a new generation of supercapacitors that can function even when they are subject to weight and vibration stress. Translation: the drywall of the...

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Russia Tesla Model S Adventure, BMW i8 Tech Being Passed On… (EV News)

Here’s some more electric vehicle news from around the interwebs: How can you get a Tesla Model S in Russia? One tech pioneer shows the way in this Russia Tesla Model S adventure of sorts. (EV...

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Graphene Cousin “Flips” For Energy Storage Breakthrough

A research team from Rice University has achieved an energy storage breakthrough based on a new, relatively cheap and simple method for manufacturing Mo Graphene Cousin “Flips” For Energy Storage...

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Electric Car News Link Bomb (Tesla Model X Love, Chevy Bolt Test Drives,...

As with the renewable energy news link bomb I just published, here’s another one dedicated to electric car news: Tesla Motors Stuff Tesla Autopilot Performs Flawlessly During Motley Fool Highway Test...

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Researchers Hack Fluffy Powder To Solve EV Energy Storage Riddle

The US Army is funding energy storage research aimed at extending EV battery range, lowering cost, and improving performance Researchers Hack Fluffy Powder To Solve EV Energy Storage Riddle was...

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Energy Storage With “Sponge Bob” Carbon-Free Supercapacitor

MIT researchers win their energy storage bet: a material known for poor conductivity can be successfully deployed to replace carbon in supercapacitors Energy Storage With “Sponge Bob” Carbon-Free...

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Lamborghini Terzo Millennio Features Body That Stores Energy

The Lamborghini Terzo Millennio Concept may be wild on the outside, but what's under its skin -- or in it -- is wilder still.

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Fisker EMotion Revealed At CES 2018

A pre-production prototype of the Fisker E Motion is on display at CES 2018 this week. The car features intriguing doors but most of its promises are yet to be kept.

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