Solar energy farms could offer second life for electric vehicle batteries
As electric vehicles rapidly grow in popularity worldwide, there will soon be a wave of used batteries whose performance is no longer sufficient for...
New 5G switches bring better battery life, higher bandwidth and speeds
The 5G revolution has begun, and the first lines of phones that can access the next generation of wireless speeds have already hit the...
New tech could improve fuel economy for passenger vehicles, light duty trucks
A technology developed by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory could pave the way for increased fuel economy and...
Next-generation solar cells pass strict international tests
Australian scientists have for the first time produced a new generation of experimental solar energy cells that pass strict International Electrotechnical Commission testing standards...
Butter-like material could make solid state batteries more stable
The electric vehicle industry has great interest in solid state batteries.
Scientists at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, and Xi'an Jiaotong University, China now present...
Scientists build promising supercapacitor for electronics and electric vehicles
A new supercapacitor based on manganese oxide could combine the storage capacity of batteries with the high power and fast charging of other supercapacitors,...
New hardware could curb artificial intelligence’s energy appetite
Quantum material could offset energy demand of artificial intelligence.
To just solve a puzzle or play a game, artificial intelligence can require software running on...
Scientists rewire photosynthesis to fuel our future
Hydrogen is an essential commodity with over 60 million tons produced globally every year.
However over 95 percent of it is made by steam reformation...
How we might recharge an electric car as it drives
Engineers have demonstrated a practical way to use magnetism to transmit electricity wirelessly to recharge electric cars, robots or even drones.
Stanford engineers have taken...
Next-generation solar cells can take the heat, maintain efficiency
Engineers have developed a next-generation solar cell that takes advantage of the promising elctro-optical properties of perovskite materials.
They've made the materials much more...