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Archive for January, 2010

iPad Excitement: Apple’s New Gadget Features 10 Hr. Battery Life

iPad Excitement: Apple’s New Gadget Features 10 Hr. Battery Life

[ 0 ] January 29, 2010

“You can book it right now that it will be the product that kids of this generation grow up with and look back on with affection just like we did with the first video games. Video games changed how we grew up. The iPad will change how kids grow up.” Mark Cuban Apple’s new iPad [...]

Does Winter Have Those Toes Cold? Battery-Powered Heated Socks Serve as Remedy

Does Winter Have Those Toes Cold? Battery-Powered Heated Socks Serve as Remedy

[ 0 ] January 27, 2010

Throughout most of the northern hemisphere, the cold winter season has many eagerly anticipating the arrival of spring and the warmer temperatures that come with it. Unfortunately, there’s still some time left before the snow and cold give way to sunshine and heat. For those who are super sensitive to frigid air and find themselves [...]

Measurable Progress? Better Place Touts $350 Million in Financing

[ 0 ] January 26, 2010

Better Place, the California-based company proposing to set up a network of battery swap stations for electric vehicles, recently announced that it has raised $350 million in investor financing to help advance its plans.

Panasonic to Supply Nickel-Based Lithium-ion Batteries to Tesla

Panasonic to Supply Nickel-Based Lithium-ion Batteries to Tesla

[ 0 ] January 25, 2010

In what’s been a growing trend of alliances between automobile makers and electronics manufacturers, Panasonic and Tesla Motors have recently announced a deal in which both companies will work together to develop and produce next-generation battery cells for electric vehicles. With hybrid and all-electric vehicles becoming more common by the day, auto manufacturers worldwide are [...]

Federal Dollars Go To Advanced Battery Systems Plant in North Carolina

Federal Dollars Go To Advanced Battery Systems Plant in North Carolina

[ 0 ] January 23, 2010

“If we want to reduce our dependence on oil, put Americans back to work and reassert our manufacturing sector as one of the greatest in the world, we must produce the advanced, efficient vehicles of the future.” – President Obama Recipients of $49 million in federal funding from the U.S. Department of Energy, the hybrid [...]

A Battery You Can Wear By Stanford U.

A Battery You Can Wear By Stanford U.

[ 0 ] January 23, 2010

Researchers at Stanford University are working to take the same battery technology they developed for ink and paper to produce a battery that could be worn in everyday clothing. The research team, headed by Yi Cui, noticed a strong and growing interest in lightweight, flexible, and wearable electronics and decided to develop a new type [...]

EnerDel, ITOCHU Announce Smart Grid Battery Storage Project

EnerDel, ITOCHU Announce Smart Grid Battery Storage Project

[ 0 ] January 20, 2010

For the second time in less than a year, the American lithium-ion battery producer EnerDel is partnering with the Japanese industrial trading giant ITOCHU Corporation to develop and produce advanced battery systems. This time around, however, EnerDel will work with ITOCHU’s real estate arm in order to create a battery system for a residential smart grid [...]

Battery-Powered Battle-Ship?

Battery-Powered Battle-Ship?

[ 0 ] January 20, 2010

While a lithium ion battery-powered ship being developed by the Japanese shipbuilding company IHI Marine United may have the appearance of a vessel designed for cruel intentions, this potentially revolutionary ferry could turn out to be the future when it comes to aquatic mass-transportation. The ship is being designed to carry up to 800 passengers [...]

Take a Sip of the Coke-Powered Cellular Phone

Take a Sip of the Coke-Powered Cellular Phone

[ 0 ] January 15, 2010

There truly is nothing that Coca-Cola cannot do, including serving as the power source for a new type of Nokia cell phone. We’ve seen batteries being powered by urine, and now we have a Coke-powered battery giving a cell phone the juic..soda necessary to properly function. “Bio battery is an ecologically friendly energy generates electricity [...]

Karma Power: A123 Systems Lands Battery Deal with Fisker Automotive

Karma Power: A123 Systems Lands Battery Deal with Fisker Automotive

[ 0 ] January 15, 2010

Following up on what was an eventful 2009 for Massachusetts-based A123 Systems, the up and coming battery manufacturer has started off the new decade by striking a battery supply agreement with Fisker Automotive. The recent recipient of nearly $250 million under Pres. Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will manufacture battery systems for the Fisker [...]