A major automaker came to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory recently wanting to better understand battery degradation. After many months of intense collaborative research with a Berkeley Lab battery scientist, they gleaned some important insights into the conditions that may lead to battery fail... Read more

The sales of electric vehicle have shown significant increase in the last quarter indicating that much lauded FAME (Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Electric Vehicles) programme is having a positive impact on the industry. The electric vehicle industry witnessed 25 percent increase in sales... Read more

The venture capital fund managed by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency has invested $6.3 million in a US-based battery storage start-up with big plans for the battery storage market in Australia. Southern Cross Ventures was one of a number of high profile investment funds – including Kleiner ... Read more

Samsung researchers have developed a new technology that enables them to coat silicon battery cathodes with high crystal graphene. This means that they can now virtually double the capacity of lithium-ion batteries! This energy density increase could almost double the range of electric vehicles wit... Read more

A $20 billion joint venture aimed at Indian renewable energy is the latest sign of fresh investment in the sector as Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeks to aggressively boost output. SoftBank, Bharti Enterprises and Taiwan's Foxconn Technologyrecently announced the creation of a joint venture fir... Read more

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday unveiled three mega flagship schemes aimed at developing cities and towns as "new engines for growth"  Underscoring the need for a bigger, stronger urban India, the PM said, "Governments should have looked at urbanisation as an opportunity to drive growth. ... Read more

Redflow Europe GmbH (Munich, Germany), provider of energy storage flow batteries, has announced its entry into the European market. Redflow is the first energy storage company to enter large-scale commercial manufacturing through global giant, Flextronics, the company emphasizes. “As we expand wo... Read more

A new solar-battery dynamic duo for California’s market SunEdison has made some big moves into energy storage this year -- first byacquiring startup Solar Grid Storage and its pipeline of mid-Atlantic projects, and then by tapping Imergy’s flow batteries for off-grid projects in the developi... Read more

Landis+Gyr, a member of Japan's Toshiba Group, will supply Finland with a BESS to be integrated into the Kalasatama district's smart energy system. The goal is to test new opportunities presented by megawatt-scale storage facilities. Around €2 million is being invested in the storage facility, whi... Read more

Japan's Softbank Corp is to team up with India's Bharti Enterprises and Taiwan's Foxconn to invest about $20 billion in solar projects in India as the country steps up efforts to boost the renewable energy sector. Softbank, which has said it will invest $10 billion in India over time, said on Monda... Read more

A123 spinout says that a semi-solid lithium-ion material can pack energy into a much safer, cheaper, easier-to-make package Five years ago, 24M Technologies spun out from parent company A123 with plans to turn a mysterious, semi-solid electrode material into a revolution in how lithium-ion batter... Read more

It was September of 2014, and Ather Energy cofounders Tarun Mehta and Swapnil Jain were running out of money. Raising venture capital was turning out to be impossible as investors weren't willing to risk their funds on an idea as audacious as theirs: a smart electric vehicle for the Indian market.So... Read more