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Environment
fromFast Company
4 hours ago

Plug-in solar is coming. Here's how much you could save on electric bills

Plug-in solar panels offer a DIY solution to reduce electric bills, especially for renters and homeowners without traditional roof access.
fromArs Technica
1 day ago

CATL's new LFP battery can charge from 10 to 98% in less than 7 minutes

Charging from 10 to 98 percent took just six minutes and 27 seconds. The more standard 10-80 percent time takes just three minutes, 44 seconds. Only have a minute to plug in? Still sufficient to get from 10 to 35 percent state of charge.
Alternative transportation
frominsideevs.com
1 day ago

What Solid-State Batteries? CATL's Newest LFP Battery Can Be Filled In Less Than 7 Minutes

The third-generation Shenxing battery can be charged from 10% to nearly full in less than 7 minutes, showcasing ultra-fast charging capabilities that surpass competitors.
London startup
Bicycling
fromHeybike
2 days ago

How To Test An EBike Controller At Home

Electric bikes use a controller to manage power flow, ensuring efficient operation and communication between components.
#smart-home
Gadgets
fromWIRED
4 days ago

The Smart Home Gadgets to Amp Up Your Curb Appeal

Smart home products like birdhouses and outdoor lights enhance both functionality and aesthetics in residential spaces.
Gadgets
fromWIRED
4 days ago

The Smart Home Gadgets to Amp Up Your Curb Appeal

Smart home products like birdhouses and outdoor lights enhance both functionality and aesthetics in residential spaces.
Business intelligence
fromBusiness Matters
5 days ago

Enhancing Industrial Efficiency with High-Speed Robot Palletizers

High-speed robot palletizers enhance efficiency in manufacturing by automating the stacking of products, significantly improving throughput and reducing manual labor.
DevOps
fromComputerWeekly.com
5 days ago

AI, energy, and the new rules of cloud sustainability competition | Computer Weekly

Cloud providers offer sustainability metrics, but lack standardization makes it difficult for enterprises to compare workloads effectively.
Environment
fromBig Think
1 hour ago

The power grid is breaking. Can it fix itself?

A deliberate power outage affected 50,000 people in Colorado due to high winds, highlighting vulnerabilities in America's power grid.
#electric-vehicles
frominsideevs.com
2 days ago
Alternative transportation

The End of Range Anxiety? This New Modular Engine Swaps Into EVs To Boost Range Significantly

fromwww.npr.org
4 days ago
Alternative transportation

Tired of waiting for your EV to charge up? One Chinese company has a novel solution

Alternative transportation
frominsideevs.com
2 days ago

The End of Range Anxiety? This New Modular Engine Swaps Into EVs To Boost Range Significantly

Renault and Geely's Horse Powertrain has developed the X-Range C15 Direct Drive, an all-in-one solution to convert EVs into hybrids or EREVs.
Alternative transportation
fromwww.npr.org
4 days ago

Tired of waiting for your EV to charge up? One Chinese company has a novel solution

NIO's automated battery swapping technology significantly reduces EV charging times, addressing a major barrier to electric vehicle adoption.
#ai
London startup
fromTheregister
2 days ago

Growing AI power drain pushes probe of low-energy computing

Low-energy chip designs are being explored to manage AI's increasing electricity demands on the UK's power grid.
#solid-state-batteries
Science
fromThe Verge
1 week ago

Is the 'Holy Grail of batteries' finally ready to bless us with its presence?

Donut Lab claims to have developed a revolutionary solid-state battery, but skepticism surrounds its credibility and the startup's lack of established presence.
fromZDNET
2 months ago
Science

Why the next-gen solid-state battery everyone talks about isn't in your iPhone yet

fromZDNET
2 months ago
Gadgets

Why your iPhone isn't powered by a solid-state battery yet - even though it beats lithium-ion

fromZDNET
2 months ago
Gadgets

I tested a solid-state portable battery for a week - now lithium-ion feels old school

Science
fromThe Verge
1 week ago

Is the 'Holy Grail of batteries' finally ready to bless us with its presence?

Donut Lab claims to have developed a revolutionary solid-state battery, but skepticism surrounds its credibility and the startup's lack of established presence.
fromZDNET
2 months ago
Science

Why the next-gen solid-state battery everyone talks about isn't in your iPhone yet

fromZDNET
2 months ago
Gadgets

Why your iPhone isn't powered by a solid-state battery yet - even though it beats lithium-ion

fromZDNET
2 months ago
Gadgets

I tested a solid-state portable battery for a week - now lithium-ion feels old school

Digital life
fromEarth911
2 weeks ago

Guest Idea: Why Sustainable Home Tech Choices Also Need Cybersecurity Awareness

Sustainable technology adoption is rising, but security risks of connected devices are often overlooked, impacting both environmental and digital safety.
Environment
fromAxios
1 week ago

AI's power demands give carbon capture a new push

Big tech companies are leading the development of carbon capture technology to address rising electricity demand from AI and data centers.
Gadgets
fromThe Verge
1 week ago

SwitchBot's button-pressing robot is now available with a rechargeable battery

SwitchBot introduces a rechargeable version of its button-pressing robot, maintaining functionality but offering a more sustainable battery option.
Alternative transportation
frominsideevs.com
5 days ago

Car Companies Have Way Too Many Batteries. They Have A Solution, But It Isn't Easy

Automakers are redirecting excess battery capacity from electric vehicles to stationary energy storage systems due to lower-than-expected EV demand.
fromTNW | Startups-Technology
3 weeks ago

tozero launches Europe's first industrial battery recycling plant

tozero's proprietary acid-free hydrometallurgical process runs in a single cycle and produces materials pure enough to feed directly back into battery cell manufacturing without further refinement.
Germany news
fromThe Verge
2 weeks ago

The only USB-C AA battery I'd buy for myself is the Zepath 3600

The Zepath 3600mWh is the only rechargeable lithium-ion AA I'd buy for myself - even though USB-C is in the charger, rather than each individual cell.
Gadgets
Alternative transportation
fromAol
5 days ago

Trying to Pick a Jackery Power Station? Start With These Models

Jackery power stations provide reliable, portable power solutions for various needs, outperforming competitors in performance and efficiency.
Science
fromSilicon Canals
3 weeks ago

AI broke the energy grid's assumptions - Silicon Canals

The future of the electrical grid in 2035 hinges on AI-driven demand, creating competition among energy sources like natural gas, nuclear, and renewables.
London politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Fire experts losing sleep' over growing hazard of lithium-ion batteries

Lithium-ion batteries pose significant fire hazards, with increasing incidents outpacing public safety awareness and regulations.
Tech industry
fromTechCrunch
1 month ago

Exclusive: The best AI investment might be in energy tech | TechCrunch

Venture capitalists are increasingly investing in AI startups, but energy solutions for data centers may present a more strategic opportunity.
Roam Research
fromTheregister
1 month ago

Water company spins out homegrown AI after LLMs failed it

Large language models provided confidently incorrect information about materials science, causing a water desalination startup to waste four months and $200,000 validating a material choice that ultimately proved inferior.
European startups
fromTechCrunch
1 month ago

Exclusive: Samsung bets this island startup can tame the grid with software and batteries | TechCrunch

Grid Beyond uses hardware and software to create virtual power plants that manage renewable energy and industrial loads to address peak electricity demand for data centers and AI operations.
Environment
fromFortune
3 weeks ago

Data centers aren't breaking the grid. A broken grid is | Fortune

A new Senate bill misidentifies data centers as the problem, while the real issue lies in an outdated and underbuilt electrical grid.
Gadgets
fromTheregister
3 weeks ago

Panasonic's already sold future datacenter battery output

Panasonic plans to triple lithium-ion battery production to meet rising demand driven by AI, aiming for significant market share and sales growth by 2029.
fromThe Autopian
1 month ago

This $30 Tool Has Kept My Car Batteries Alive No Matter How Long I've Let Them Sit Outside - The Autopian

One of the weird quirks of working from home and owning a lot of cars is that I might go a month or a few between driving a specific vehicle. This is especially true in the winter, when I just won't drive my favorite cars at all to keep them out of the road salt. Many of my vehicles don't have the privilege of sipping from a battery tender. Yet, when I'm ready, the cars fire up when it's time to drive.
Cars
fromComputerWeekly.com
4 weeks ago

Why IT leaders need to consider AI's energy footprint | Computer Weekly

We are making sure that we have renewable energy powering all of our datacentre footprint. We have 100% renewable power today that is powering all of Azure, and we're very proud to build that base and essentially stimulate renewable energy around the world and in the UK.
Environment
Mobile UX
fromGSMArena.com
1 month ago

Leak: test reports for 12,000mAh and 18,000mAh Silicon-Carbon batteries from Samsung

Samsung SDI is developing Silicon-Carbon batteries in 12,000mAh, 18,000mAh, and 20,000mAh capacities, but early test samples show durability challenges with cycle life falling short of 1,500-cycle targets.
frominsideevs.com
4 weeks ago

Most EV Fast Chargers Are Built In Months. Ionna Just Built One In 5 Days

"Speed of deployment is one of the biggest challenges facing EV infrastructure expansion. Our prefab manufacturing model allows charging networks to dramatically reduce construction timelines, lower project costs, and bring charging capacity online faster."
Alternative transportation
fromTechCrunch
1 month ago

Google and Tesla think we're managing the electrical grid all wrong | TechCrunch

The group points out, correctly, that the grid is designed for brief bursts of high demand; most of the time there's lots of capacity that goes unused. Utilize thinks that should change. The group argues that smarter ways to use that capacity already exist. Utilize name checks a number of those solutions, including battery storage, demand response, and virtual power plants, all of which have emerged en masse over the last decade, but remain under utilized.
Toronto startup
Apple
fromWIRED
1 month ago

Force Your MacBook to Only Charge up to 80 Percent (and Why You Should)

Batteries degrade over time, but charging to only 80 percent instead of 100 percent significantly slows battery degradation in devices like MacBooks.
fromEarth911
1 month ago

Guest Idea: Map Appliance Power to Identify and Tame Your Home's Top Electricity Consumers

Appliance power mapping means measuring each appliance's actual electricity consumption rather than relying on manufacturer estimates. Using tools like plug-in electricity monitors (such as a Kill-A-Watt meter) or whole-house energy monitors (like Sense or Emporia Vue), you collect real data on how much electricity each device draws-while running, in standby, and when nominally "off."
Remodel
fromTechCrunch
2 months ago

Tesla's energy storage business is growing faster than any other part of the company | TechCrunch

Last year, the company's profit fell 45% compared with 2024, driven in large part by falling sales of its electric vehicles. Investors anticipated the decline in sales, but Tesla still beat Wall Street earnings and revenue estimates thanks to its energy storage business. Tesla deployed a record 46.7 gigawatt-hours of energy storage products in 2025, a 48% increase from last year, according to the company's official filings.
Business
Artificial intelligence
fromTheregister
2 months ago

Machine learning could cut lithium-ion battery testing costs

A Discovery Learning machine-learning framework can predict lithium-ion battery lifetimes while reducing development time by about 98% and cost by about 95%.
Cars
fromTechCrunch
1 month ago

BYD rolls out EV batteries with 5-minute 'flash charging.' But there's a catch. | TechCrunch

BYD's Blade Battery 2.0 charges from 10% to 70% in five minutes using LFP chemistry, requiring proprietary Flash Charging chargers to achieve ultra-fast speeds.
Science
fromFast Company
2 months ago

This battery company from MIT helps factories ditch fossil fuels for cheap renewable power

A Joule Hive thermal battery enables factories to store cheap electricity as high-temperature heat (up to 1,800°C), cutting heating costs and replacing natural gas.
Artificial intelligence
fromTechzine Global
2 months ago

IBM FlashSystem: 'Autonomous AI takes over 90% of storage management'

IBM's FlashSystem 5600/7600/9600 integrate agentic AI to autonomously manage storage, reducing management effort up to 90% while optimizing performance, security, and costs.
Toronto startup
fromThe Atlantic
1 month ago

Tesla's Secret Weapon Is a Giant Metal Box

Tesla is pivoting from selling cars to manufacturing robots and robotaxis, with the Cybercab driverless vehicle and Optimus humanoid robot as centerpieces, though both face significant legal, technical, and safety challenges.
fromTESLARATI
2 months ago

LG Energy Solution pursuing battery deal for Tesla Optimus: report

The first sites are expected to open later this Summer, and will be built at select locations along I-5 and I-10, major routes for commercial vehicles and significant logistics companies. The chargers will be available in California, Georgia, Nevada, New Mexico, and Texas. Each station will have between four and eight chargers, delivering up to 1.2 megawatts of power at each stall.
Cars
Cars
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 month ago

CATL sodium-ion battery aims to improve EV winter range loss

Sodium-ion batteries, particularly CATL's Naxtra model, offer improved cold-weather performance for electric vehicles, potentially addressing range loss and slow charging in freezing temperatures.
Environment
fromZDNET
2 months ago

Considering a home battery? These 3 factors can help you decide

Home batteries paired with solar reduce electricity bills, provide outage backup, and gain value where time-of-use pricing or reduced solar export credits exist.
Science
frominsideevs.com
2 months ago

Used EV Batteries Are Way Healthier Than You Probably Think

Most used EV batteries retain high capacity—average health around 95%, often exceeding warranty thresholds even with higher age and mileage.
Environment
fromNature
1 month ago

Electric-vehicle batteries toughen up to beat the heat

Rising temperatures degrade battery performance, but rapid improvements in battery technology enable electric vehicles to withstand climate change impacts.
fromZDNET
2 months ago

I changed 6 settings on my iPad to instantly improve the battery life (by hours)

As an avid iPad user, I'm all too familiar with the internal struggles that course through me when the battery is about to die. I love using either the iPad 11 or iPad Air to write and work, but I also use it to stream content, play games, and browse the internet after work. This makes me appreciate the iPad's long battery life, yet my anxiety grows when I start getting 'low battery' alerts without a charger nearby.
Gadgets
frominsideevs.com
2 months ago

CATL Says Ultra Fast Charging Won't Kill Its New Battery

CATL says its new 5C batteries will retain 80% of their capacity after 1,400 charge-discharge cycles at 140F (60C). With a theoretical range of 372 miles (600 km) per cycle, that works out to a total of 522,000 miles (840,000 km) in what CATL describes as Dubai summer heat. At a milder ambient temperature of 68F (20C), which is closer to the ideal operating temperature for lithium-ion batteries,
Science
Alternative transportation
fromSustainable Bus
1 month ago

"The Battery Cycle" launched: a 2026 special feature exploring batteries between rigor and clarity - Sustainable Bus

The Battery Cycle is a structured educational initiative providing comprehensive battery management knowledge for electric vehicle fleet operators across bus, truck, and powertrain sectors throughout 2026.
Environment
fromEarth911
1 month ago

Guest Idea: 7 Innovations in Energy Storage and Transmission

Seven innovations in energy storage and delivery technologies are essential to complement renewable generation and modernize aging grid infrastructure for climate solutions.
fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

Smart Homes Are Terrible

All of the appliances and systems are brand-new: the HVAC, the lighting, the entertainment. Touch screens of various shapes and sizes control this, that, and the other. Rows of programmable buttons sit where traditional light switches would normally be. The kitchen even has outlets designed to rise up from the countertop when you need them, and slide away when you don't.
Gadgets
fromEarth911
2 months ago

The Earth911 Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling Guide

Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries are found in many devices we use every day, like smartphones, laptops, tablets, wireless earbuds, power tools, e-bikes, and electric vehicles. By 2023, there were more than 40 million electric vehicles on the road worldwide, and billions of portable electronics used Li-ion cells. These batteries are valuable for recycling, but they can be dangerous if not disposed of correctly.
Environment
Environment
frominsideevs.com
2 months ago

Battery Recycling Is Getting Ready To Take Off

EV battery recycling is becoming a high-growth industry projected to reach about $70 billion annually by 2040 due to retiring batteries and supportive regulations.
fromZDNET
2 months ago

Why lithium batteries continue to fail your phone and laptop - and 6 ways to reduce the risk

For the most part, rechargeable battery-powered devices are incredibly well-behaved. It's a good thing, really, because most of us are happy to go to sleep with a charging smartphone not far from our head each night, and cram ourselves onto an aircraft and spend many hours at 40,000 feet surrounded by hundreds of different devices -- all of varying quality and state of repair -- containing a rechargeable battery.
Gadgets
Environment
fromTechCrunch
2 months ago

HomeBoost's app will show you where to save on your utility bills | TechCrunch

HomeBoost mails DIY home energy assessment kits and uses an app to identify inefficiencies, recommend cost-effective upgrades, and surface location-based rebates to lower utility bills.
Gadgets
fromZDNET
2 months ago

This charger made alkaline batteries completely unnecessary for me in 2026

The Xtar L8 Box charges and stores up to eight AA or AAA NiMH or lithium-ion batteries simultaneously using any 15W+ USB-C power source.
Gadgets
fromZDNET
2 months ago

The only lithium button battery brand I recommend now - for serious safety reasons

Swallowed lithium button cell batteries can cause severe esophageal or airway damage within two hours and may be fatal.
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