Metals Tech

Samsung will now offer fast charging electric cars thanks to a new battery technology. The new battery created by the company will give the vehicle a running range of 600 km on a single charge. This battery can be charged in just 20 minutes. Additionally, it incorporates components that have significantly reduced cell resistance. This battery […]

Masdar in the United Arab Emirates and Norwegian multinational Statoil signed a collaborative agreement on the Hywind Scotland project during Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week. The two companies will purchase, install and analyse data from the Batwind battery system to explore its potential for future applications. Hywind, which opened off the coast of Aberdeenshire last October, […]

During Uber’s Elevate Summit in April 2017, a Detroit-based aircraft company and an automotive company from the same city announced a venture into the urban mobility space. A newly formed firm, Airspace Experience Technologies LLC (AirSpaceX), would have a new VTOL aircraft to go with it: MOBi-ONE. A subscale model of MOBi-ONE was recently unveiled to the public by […]

California has long sought to be at the forefront of a cleaner environment and cleaner energy standards. Although Bakersfield was the site of some of America’s earliest oil production at the beginning of the 20th century, more recently, California has worked to dramatically reduce smog and CO2 levels through strict emissions requirements and, more recently, […]

While lithium-ion batteries are undergoing an historic scale-up, researchers are also hard at work looking for what battery technology might come next. A big battery breakthrough could lead to electric cars that could drive longer on a single charge and are safer to operate. Better batteries for the grid could store more energy, enabling the […]