The automakers Volvo and Jaguar are testing the possibility of using flywheels instead of batteries in hybrid electric vehicles to aid acceleration and help engines...
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Task force calls for sweeping changes to NRC rules
U.S. nuclear power regulators should consider a slew of new requirements designed to ensure that the country’s 104 nuclear reactors can withstand a major disaster, a...
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GOP bid to void light bulb law fails
WASHINGTON — House Republicans on Tuesday failed to advance a measure that would repeal regulations that increase efficiency standards for light bulbs, rules that they...
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Montana questions Exxon spill estimate
HOUSTON—Montana's Department of Environmental Quality asked Exxon Mobil Corp. to justify its estimate of how much oil spilled into the Yellowstone River earlier this...
House spending panel punishes OSTP over links to China
Bad things can happen to federal agencies when they cross swords with their budget overlords in Congress. The latest example of that political adage comes in the 2012...
AT&T signs up for 11 fuel cell Bloom boxes
Bloom Energy will install its fuel cell-powered energy servers at 11 AT&T locations in California, which the telecom company says will cut the facilities' carbon...
Lux Research: A severe EV battery oversupply on the horizon
The supply of batteries for electric cars could far surpass the demand for electric vehicles over the next few years, estimates Lux Research. It could be a "severe...
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Friday the Department of Energy established a new, $120 million center for battery research with an ambitious goal of making batteries for electric vehicles and electric...
In Scotland, researchers claim an advance in lithium-air battery technology
A lightweight cell was recently run through 100 charge and discharge cycles, losing just 5 percent of its electrical capacity, researchers claimed.
GM-backed Envia claims huge advance in cheaper, better batteries for 300-mile EVs
Looking for signs that the automotive landscape may be changing sooner than most people realize? Here's one. Envia Systems, a start-up battery company that counts...
A123 will supply battery packs for BMW hybrids
Lithium-ion battery-pack maker A123 Systems, whose customers include General Motors, Fisker and ALTe, will make battery packs for two new BMW hybrid vehicles this year....
A123 to supply batteries for all-electric Chevy Spark
The courtship between A123 Systems and GM didn’t really work out before, but the two are giving it another try. GM on Wednesday named the lithium-ion battery maker as the...
Volvo C30 Electric to participate in wireless charging project
Volvo has announced that its C30 Electric will participate in an inductive charging project called Continuous Electric Drive (CED) that is being set up by Belgian...
DBM Energy's record-breaking KOLIBRI battery passes German government tests
When DBM Energy made its record-breaking drive from Munich to Berlin, Germany on a single charge of the KOLIBRI Alpha Polymer battery, there was a lot of skepticism...
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Tesla CEO: I’d bet on capacitors over batteries
Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk says he bets that it could be capacitors — rather than batteries — that deliver an important breakthrough for electric transportation. “If I were to...
U.S. researchers gain insight into one cause of lithium-ion battery aging
Researchers from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have stumbled upon a battery discovery that may some day provide insight for building more durable lithium-ion...
LG Chem, Renault agree to largest lithium-ion deal to date
LG Chem has signed a massive lithium-ion battery supply agreement with Renault. Indeed, this deal is so big that LG Chem company spokesman Song Choong-sup state
Volvo working on a car battery that could be shaped into body panels
Where can you put an electric car's power source? Pretty much anywhere, as Volvo's new "Tomorrow's Volvo Car" sketch shows us. The idea here is t
Study indicates high-speed flywheels are competitive energy storage system for fuel cell hybrids
Reed Doucette and Malcolm McCulloch at the University of Oxford (UK) have compared high-speed flywheels, batteries, and ultracapacitors on the bases of cost and fuel...
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