Tag: Batteries - Page 8
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Pedal-Per-Minute With Bike-Powered Cell Phone Charger
OK, so this isn’t break-through technology. But it does show the increasing availability of convenient alternative energy for charging gadgets.
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Energizer Solar Powered Battery Charger to Debut at CES
Looks like there are going to be greener ways to charge up AA and AAA batteries, and it's not just a concept.
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Ultracapacitors Getting Tested on South Korea's Subways
When I was little, my sister and I would wake up super early on Christmas morning and sit impatiently in our beds waiting for our parents to wake up. By about 6 am, we'd poke our heads out of our bedroom door and
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HP Laptops Get Awesome New Lithium-Ion Batteries
Remember how Boston Power reported that notebook users wanted greener laptops that have longer lasting batteries? Well, they’re now prepared to give improved batteries to those hopeful users.
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Michelin Unveils Active Wheel in Affordable Electric Car
Image: Michelin The Holy Grail of Eco-transportation Could this be the technology that revolutionizes transportation? Will the company that invented the air-pressure tire trump that achievement by making electric cars affordable and practical?
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GreenBuild: Charge Your Electric Car in Ten Minutes
They may have crushed all of the EV1 electric cars, but they didn't crush the technology; it lives on at Aerovironment, used primarily in industrial vehicles and forklifts.
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Formula Zero Racer: Day Dreaming by Mercedes-Benz
If the podracing in StarWars I was tempered by the grace of the Greenbird’s land yacht design then you might have something that Mercede-Benz designers are saying in 2025 would be called Formula Zero. (Except, of course that we already have Formula
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From the Forums: Home Battery Inventory
How many devices at home do you have that use a battery? That was the question I pondered when I recently went into my battery drawer and found I was out of AA Alkalines. I thought to myself, before buying more of the same, what devices do I own where
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Energy Seed LED Light Gives Alkaline Batteries a Last Hurrah
Yanko Design is always showing off interesting pieces. One that caught our eye yesterday is an LED street light that is powered by trashed alkaline batteries.
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Spintronics Discovery Could Lead to Magnetic Batteries
Scientists have had spintronics in their sights for a little while now, aiming to uncover a way to use magnetism for battery power. Everyone wants better batteries, and magnetic batteries have the potential for using magnetic currents
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Flashlight Uses Hybrid Solar and Battery Power
This very cool light-weight flashlight caught my eye at the West Coast Green tradeshow. It is a hybrid device that makes solar powered flashlights far more reliable. The solar charger on the side of the handle uses solar or indoor lighting to charge
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Survey Says Notebook Users Want Green, Long-Lasting Batteries
I know – fairly unsurprising, right? But still worth a gander at the survey results of a Harris Interactive poll http://www.harrisinteractive.com/. And definitely worth the attention when it comes to manufacturers
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A123Systems Files S-1 Registration Papers for IPO
Coming Wave of Green IPOs? Battery maker A123Systems wants to go public. After raising $123 million in venture funding, it now wants to raise $175 million more. Is it the start of a wave of green IPOs, or is the market too bad for that? A lot of green
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EEStor Announces Something Important. I Think.
I am always at a loss for what to illustrate a post on EEStor with, the magic ultracapacitor that is so near and yet so far. I even resorted to a grilled cheese analogy once.
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Lithium Iron Phosphate Breakthrough: Better Batteries for Hybrids and Electric Cars
Cheaper and more Powerful Batteries for Hybrids and Electric Cars Scientific progress often moves in a seesaw pattern. You have a technology, you then discover a new one that is better in some aspects, and worse in others. Then you find out how to
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GM and 30+ Electric Utilities Form Coalition to Support Plug-In Vehicles
Infrastructure & Standards for Plug-In Vehicles While making an infrastructure to charge plug-in vehicles (plug-in hybrids and battery electric cars) is a lot easier than making an infrastructure for hydrogen-powered vehicles (like the Honda FCX
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Google Invests in Aptera Motors and Lithium-Ion Battery Maker AtaCell
Google's RechargeIT Invests $2.75 Million Google's philanthropic arm, via its RechargeIT program, has just bet $2.75 million on two companies trying to make plug-in hybrids and electric cars a reality: Aptera Motors, maker of the three-wheeled
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Matsushita to Increase Lithium-ion Battery Production by 300%
50 Million More Battery Units per Month With the progressive electrification of transportation (from hybrids to plug-in hybrids to electric cars), one thing the world will need more of is batteries. Matsushita, who owns the Panasonic brand and has a
