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Nissan thinks its batteries will outlast the EVs they're in by a decade or more
Occasionally, when a battery "dies" in an EV, it's still plenty capable of holding charge, just not as much as a car owner would like or need. The question of what to do with those batteries is at the ...
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Baking a "Jellyroll": How Batteries Get Made
Every day around the globe, millions of run-of-the-mill lithium-ion batteries are cranked out. Typically these workhorses of the electronic economy are produced in cavernous, highly automated ...
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Leaf electric-car batteries can outlast vehicles by up to 12 years, Nissan claims
When modern electric cars first hit showrooms in large numbers about a decade ago, one of the biggest questions about them was battery life. But Nissan hopes to finally put those doubts to rest. After ...
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Adding Giant Batteries To This Hydro Project Creates A 'Virtual Dam' With Less Environmental Impact
A Chilean utility has broken ground on a 50 megawatt-hour (MWh) battery energy storage project – equivalent to the capacity of 5 million iPhones – paired with a run-of-river hydroelectric facility. ...
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Charging into the future—novel rock salt for use in rechargeable magnesium batteries
Life today depends heavily on electricity. However, the unrelenting demand for electricity calls for increasingly greener and "portable" sources of energy. Although windmills and solar panels are ...
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Where Batteries are Replacing Power Plants
A man walks past as the Scattergood Generating Station in El Segundo, California. A Southern California utility company recently scrapped a proposal to build a new natural gas-powered plant in the ...
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B&H is Replacing a ‘Subpar’ (i.e. Fake) Batch of Nikon Batteries
Some B&H customers who had recently purchased a Nikon EN-EL15b battery received an unusual email today. The retail giant says it sold a “subpar batch” of the batteries and will be replacing ...
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French startup raises €9m for next-gen fast-charging batteries
As technology develops in ever-more interesting ways the one limitation that limits the experience is the relatively short battery life. For this reason, many companies are racing to developing better ...
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New Recycling Technology for Heavy Duty Military Batteries
MOSCOW, May 21, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- NUST MISIS scientists together with JSC "Shchelkovo Plant of Secondary Precious Metals" developed an innovative cascade method for purifying silver from spent ...
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Best ATV Batteries: Durable & Long-Lasting Batteries For Your Quad
TheDrive and its partners may earn a commission if you purchase a product through one of our links. Read more. One of the most important parts of your ATV is the battery. If you can't start your ...
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