Lithium Ion
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How lame is lithium ion?
Insight commentary Now a start-up called ZPower says it's come up with a battery technology breakthrough which it claims will result in 40 percent longer laptop life than lithium-ion on a single charge.
Tags: Components, Notebooks and tablets, Battery, PC Company, Notebook, San Francisco, lithium-ion, Laptop Computer, power management, laptop battery
Sony opens US$106M battery plant in S'pore
News Japanese electronics giant opens its first Southeast Asian plant, located in Singapore, to manufacture lithium ion polymer batteries.
Tags: Components, Notebooks and tablets, Battery, Electronics, Cell Phone, Notebook, phone, lithium-ion, lithium-ion battery, notebook computer
HP laptop batteries recalled for overheating
News About 70,000 batteries sold with HP laptops are subject to overheating, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission . Two have caught on fire, but no injuries are reported.
Tags: Components, Battery, Hewlett-Packard Co., Palo Alto, Compaq Computer Corp., Laptop Computer, laptop battery, California, Components, Sony Corp.
Start-up looks to extend battery life
News ZPower promising 40 percent longer battery life with its silver-zinc battery, which will make its debut with a large laptop manufacturer next year.
Tags: Components, Battery, lithium-ion, financial, disk, technique, Components, ZPower, Mercury, Battery Life
China's BYD to bring electric cars to US in 2010
News Electric car company, part-owned by Warren Buffet, plans to enter the U.S. market next year and test an all-electric sedan aimed at raising brand awareness.
Tags: Green IT, Battery, Plug-in, electric car, lithium-ion, lithium-ion battery, China, U.S., brand, car
GE boosts bets on battery technology
News Part of its US$17 billion Ecomagination initiative, GE is increasing research in batteries for transportation and energy storage on the electricity grid.
Tags: Hardware, Components, Green IT, Battery, Clean Technology, General Electric Co., Carbon Footprint, Storage, lithium-ion, Chrysler LLC
MIT chips away at lithium ion barrier
News American university researchers make battery breakthrough, which could mean good news for electric automakers and impatient cell phone users.
Tags: Components, Battery, Chip, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, car battery, electric vehicle, graduate student, lithium-ion, lithium-ion battery, barrier
Energy storage coming to a power grid near you
News Storage on the grid would allow use of more solar and wind power and avoid the need for new power plants. So what's holding up grid storage?
Tags: grid computing, Storage, Energy Storage, Storage, Grid, hard drive, lithium-ion, theory, financial, NSTAR
Auto battery maker Ener1 eyes grid storage
News Lithium ion battery company seeks to expand its auto business with government loan and grant programs while testing power grid energy storage with utilities.
Tags: Green IT, Battery, Manufacturing, auto company, Storage, Ener1, electric car, lithium-ion, lithium-ion battery, industry
Panasonic to acquire Sanyo Electric
News Electronics giant Panasonic, aiming to get an edge in the rechargeable-batteries business and solar-battery market, reaches agreement to buy Sanyo Electric.
Tags: Acquisitions, Business structures, Battery, Sanyo Electric Co., Photovoltaics, electric vehicle, Tokyo Stock Exchange, Panasonic, lithium-ion, financial
Future air-fueled battery could store 10 times more power
News Researchers see promise in new battery technology using air as a fuel and say it could provide 10 times more power for electric cars, mobile phones and laptops.
Tags: Green IT, Consumer Technology, Battery, Cell, electric car, Oxygen, lithium-ion, Scotland, chemicals, researcher
Green technologies to watch
News The pace of change surrounding technology in clean energy and efficiency has not been this fast in years.
Tags: Green IT, Battery, Technology, Storage, Innovation, Yergin, Renewable Energy, electric vehicle, lithium-ion, financial
Motion-powered phone charger sashays in
News Start-up M2EPower harvests the energy from human motion in a self-powering device that can give an additional charge to cell phones and other small gadgets.
Tags: Green IT, Battery, Motion, Cell Phone, phone, Boise State University, lithium-ion, hybrid car, blog, handset
Sony batteries involved in another recall
News The company's 2.15Ah lithium ion batteries are being blamed for incidents of laptops overheating.
Tags: Hardware, Components, Notebooks and tablets, Battery, Hewlett-Packard Co., Manufacturing, Notebook, notebook battery, lithium-ion, industry
Scientists use virus to help build battery
News Researchers have used a genetically-modified virus to assemble materials for an energy-efficient battery, which they say could be used in hybrid cars.
Tags: Components, Battery, Carbon Nanotube, Nanotube, carbon nanotube network, biology, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Power supplies, surge suppression, virus, scientist
