A New Battery Intended to Power Passenger Airplanes and EVs, Explained

The transition to electric vehicles is accelerating, with a rise in market share and advances in technology. In the accompanying blizzard of reports and corporate statements, some potentially huge developments can pass with little notice or explanation. Here’s one: CATL, the China-based company that is the world’s leading manufacturer of EV batteries, provided details last […]

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This Dime-Sized Battery Is a Step Toward an EV With a 1,000-Mile Range

Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory and the Illinois Institute of Technology have created a solid-state battery that could be used to vastly expand the range of EVs, and it could unlock the ability to use batteries on short-haul aircraft and heavy trucks. But for now it’s a lab-scale battery cell, about the size of a […]

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A Clean Energy Trifecta: Wind, Solar and Storage in the Same Project

Elected officials and energy company executives gathered last week in rural Oregon to mark the completion of Wheatridge Renewable Energy Facility, a project that combines a wind farm, solar array and battery storage. This is the fourth and the largest project in the United States to combine those three renewable energy resources on the same […]

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