28:25 | If you dominate EV battery manufacturing, you dominate electromobility. China is building one gigafactory after another, while Europe struggles with political uncertainty, lack of know-how, and large-scale projects that end up delayed or cancelled.
33:07 | Nowhere is the downside of energy transition more visible than in New Caledonia.
11:56 | Gravity batteries are a new big hope for storing excess renewable electricity. The idea is ingenious. Does it pass the reality check?
11:06 | Truck manufacturers are under immense pressure to cut emissions. But should they bet on fully electric batteries, hydrogen fuel cells or even both?
11:12 | A US company called FORM Energy is on the cusp of installing its first 10MW / 1 gigawatt hour iron-air energy storage facility.
13:05 | Will batteries for hundreds of millions of future electric vehicles rob the planet of all its precious minerals? And what about all the minerals and materials for billions of wind turbines and solar panels?
11:46 | A team of researchers in Vienna has shown us how we can reliably move electrons using oxygen as the main source.
8:00 | In Indonesia, where the majority of nickel for lithium-ion batteries is produced, the production process emits large amounts of carbon and pollution. It doesn’t have to be this way. Indonesia sits along the Ring of Fire, one of the most geologically active regions in the world.
10:28 | Liquid metal battery technology has the potential to revolutionise utility scale energy storage, but it’s been a long and difficult road for the creator, Donald Sadoway, and his company, Ambri Inc.
11:27 | How do we get ourselves off our dependence on fossil fuels? And if the alternative is intermittent renewables then how are we going to keep our homes constantly warm during the colder months? Perhaps our friends in Scandinavia can provide some answers…
9:53 | The lithium-ion battery has powered us for decades. But for a renewable future, we need a new solution—and fast. So what are our options?
11:17 | Graphene is about to become a reality in electric vehicle batteries, increasing energy density by 40% or more, and reducing charge times to just a few minutes.
11:59 | The market for energy storage is still dominated by lithium-ion technology. But cheaper, greener and safer alternatives are being developed all the time.
14:20 | A team at MIT has combined and improved several existing technologies into a flexible modular solution that could be as much as 30x cheaper than existing lithium-ion technology.
11:41 | Sodium-ion batteries have been overshadowed by lithium-ion for decades, but there’s a thousand times more sodium in the earth’s crust than there is lithium.
7:25 | Sitting in a row outside of the factory, these giant batteries are the size of freight containers. Powered by vats of iron and saltwater, they’re called iron flow batteries.
12:19 | Manganese dioxide flow batteries may offer a very cost effective way of bridging the gap between short duration lithium-ion batteries and longer duration technologies like hydrogen.
10:20 | As the United States turns to electric vehicles, solar and wind for its clean energy transition, the demand for lithium – used in rechargeable batteries – is on the rise.
11:35 | Lithium Sulphur (or Sulfur) batteries have been on the ‘hopeful technology’ list for over a decade now. Now, after ten years of waiting, suddenly two different solutions have been announced within a week of each other.
9:16 | Billions of unassuming rocks on the seafloor could help humanity save itself from the ravages of climate change.
11:27 | Iron Air batteries use cheap, non toxic, abundant materials and potentially have a far higher energy density than Lithium Ion batteries.
12:29 | As electric vehicle sales continue to accelerate around the world, battery charging times and operational lifespan are becoming ever more important questions in the minds of potential EV drivers.
14:10 | Solid state batteries are the long-promised Holy Grail of battery technology. Turns out it’s quite tricky to make them reliable!
28:26 | High in the Andes mountains, mining companies are gearing up for the massive extraction of lithium – the raw material of the future.
46:11 | All over the world, storage technologists and battery pioneers are looking for ways to store renewable energy. From developing fast batteries to storing heat in basalt and salt.
11:18 | The energy storage sector is becoming a pretty crowded field as more and more companies come up with solutions that will be crucial to dealing with the intermittency of renewable technologies.
25:54 | Liquid metal batteries are being hailed by some as the most transformative and revolutionary energy storage technology since John B. Goodenough came up with lithium ion batteries several decades ago.
12:11 | Batteries in electric vehicles and electronic devices make up a very large proportion of the overall mass. But what if you didn’t need to bolt the batteries to any part of the bodywork at all?
10:47 | An all organic Redox Flow battery has been developed by a team of researchers in Sweden. Could this be the system that finally makes global grid scale storage a reality?
13:22 | Lithium recycling wasn’t considered important ten years ago when fewer than 60,000 electric vehicles were sold worldwide. But today…
13:11 | This design that utilises tried and tested components that have been reimagined and re-engineered to perform a vital function for electricity grids, now and in the future.
17:14 | Cobalt has become an important ingredient in the batteries powering much of today’s technology. Most of it comes from the mines of the DRC in Africa…
14:35 | Redox flow batteries are one of the most promising energy storage solutions because they are powered by charged electrolytes that can be infinitely expanded.
11:54 | Indigenous leaders and scientists say Chile’s plans to feed a global green energy boom with Atacama lithium will kill the desert.
11:50 | UIC has proved that a Lithium Carbon Dioxide battery can hold far more energy than a traditional battery. MIT has shown us a system that significantly improves the efficiency of capturing pure CO2 from ambient air streams.
12:19 | Huge advances in battery technology now mean that energy can be stored as it’s generated, giving national grid operators an instant solution for smoothing demand and bringing domestic micro-generation to hundreds of millions of people.