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Concerns Raised as Tesla Model 3 Spontaneously Combusts!
One of the biggest (and legitimate) concerns surrounding the expansion of electric cars on our roads generally tends to fall upon the batteries. Put simply, lithium-ion has a very messy production cycle (in terms of mining/pollution), and worse, when something goes wrong, they tend to flame up in a pretty…
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EU Proposal Wants Removable Smartphone Batteries Back
There was a time where practically every smart device had a detachable battery. This was, admittedly, before the time they were even known as ‘smart devices’, but over the last 15 years, we’ve definitely seen a trend towards all major manufacturers making the batteries an integrated part of the design.…
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Police Withdraw Drones Due To Battery Concerns
Police Withdraw Drones Due To Battery Concerns With the growth and sophistication of drones over the last few years, it’s hardly any surprise that the police have decided to start using them. Given their ease of use and relatively low cost, they have become surprisingly useful. In a report via…
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Scientists Develop A Biodegradable Paper Battery
Scientists Develop A Biodegradable Paper Battery Batteries are becoming a major problem in the world of waste disposal. We use so many of them in our appliances and due to the acids they contain, it’s estimated that the UK alone sends around 20,000 tonnes of them to the tip each…
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Dyson Announces £2 Billion Electric Car Project
James Dyson just revealed that his company has been working on developing a new electric car. In fact, they already have 400 engineers working on it secretly for the last two-and-a-half years. Needless to say, as a company that is very good at making things that suck, this most likely…
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Panasonic Investing $256M in Tesla’s Solar Cell Plant
Japanese company Panasonic has been expanding from their consumer electronic base and into more integrated components as well as business solutions so sticking with Tesla in their Solar Cell plant based out of New York seems like a good move. Panasonic’s investment is in the neighborhood of about 30 billion…
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Smartphone Batteries Might be Twice as Powerful in 2017
Battery improvements could definitely make our daily lives easier, but creating better batteries is definitely no easy task. Even though experts have been talking about creating a battery that would put all others to shame for quite a few years now, it seems that they have finally achieved a significant…
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New Lithium-Air Battery Could Improve the Range of Electric Vehicles
We’d all like to be able to charge our cars in a few hours and then go across the country on a single charge, but that’s not exactly possible right now, unfortunately. Still, this doesn’t mean that it won’t be possible in the future, as researchers and scientists are constantly…
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Improve Your Halloween Display With This Motion Activated Window Figure
I agree with very little when it comes to certain policies which have been fostered upon the globe by good old Uncle Sam, the United States of America, Halloween on the other hand is executed, no pun intended, with all the intended style and spirit which consumers have been accustomed…
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Tesla Launches Powerwall Home Battery – $3.5K for 10kWh!
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla has just announced a new line of stationary batteries for home and utilities. Called Powerwall, these units are meant to store energy when it is scarce, expensive or intermittent. Powerwall can scale up from basic home units to massive energy storage farms for utilities. For now…
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Batteries Need to Triple Capacity and Cut Price by 67%
Batteries hold a strong place in today’s lifestyle, from remote controls, mobile phones, to hybrid and all-electric car batteries. Battery research is one of the hottest subjects in material science, with researchers promising new creative ideas from their labs. Despite battery capacity slowly increasing in recent months and years, we…
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Ever Wanted to Make Your Own AA Battery?
Have you always found going to a shop to buy AA batteries for remote controls, toys or clocks a labourious and wasteful task? Well now you can make your own with this handy tutorial! Just be sure to have plenty of lead, manganese dioxide, potassium hydroxide, carbon powder, and zinc…
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Charge Your Phone in 30 Seconds
Reuters reports about an Israeli company that claims to have developed a prototype that could charge a mobile phone in 30 seconds. “Using nano-technology to synthesize artificial molecules, Tel Aviv-based StoreDot says it has developed a battery that can store a much higher charge more quickly, in effect acting like…
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Electric Car Energy Density Boosted 7x Using Poroxide
Electric cars are here to stay, it doesn’t matter if they’re powered by hydrogen or a plug socket, they’ve proven to be more efficient than petrol engines and that’s an important step in the right direction. There are lots of electric cars already on our roads, but there is also…
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Harley-Davidson Unveils the Company’s First Electric Motorcycle
Motorcycle manufacturer Harley-Davidson unveiled the Project LiveWire electric motorcycle, showing the famed brand wants to diversify its motorcycle offerings. Unfortunately, similar to other first-generation electric vehicles, the project motorcycle has a relatively short battery range. A single charge lasts for about 130 miles, and recharging takes anywhere from 30 to…
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