Laptop battery blunder

Keeping a laptop plugged in is a one-way ticket to Tech Trouble Town.

At age 100

The splendidly named inventor of the lithium-ion battery, John B. Goodenough has died. He was 100.

Numbers of fires up over the last five years

A CBS News Investigation has discovered that lithium-Ion battery fires on aircraft have increased by 42 per cent over the last five years.

Getting a pizza of battery development

A team of researchers at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Milan recently created a fully rechargeable battery using nontoxic edible components.

Cells with glue-like binders

Boffins at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have discovered a new material that allows old lithium-ion cells to be recycled with just water. And it could soon make battery recycling cheaper and safer.

Will this one see the light of day?

Every week we write about a new breakthough in battery technology, and yet for some reason none of them ever appear. This week, boffins from the University of New South Wales in Australia and Yokohama National University in Japan have identified a new type of positive electrode material that could lead to more durable solid-state batteries.

We don't need no expensive lithium 

HiNa Battery has produced what it is calling the world's first mass production run of sodium-ion batteries which don't use expensive lithium.

630km on a single charge, if it ever sees the light of day

Pohang university boffins led by Professor Soojin Park have developed anode-free lithium batteries which they claim have a longer life on a single charge.

Because the Hindenburg taught us nothing 

Italian electrode maker De Nora and Green Energy Storage have partnered to develop a hydrogen battery prototype.

Is there nothing AI can't do?

After decades of humans inventing new battery tech which for some reason never gets to market, it appears that the boffins have come up with a way of making AI do the job for them.