The 1.1-megawatt hour bank of rare earth lithium-ion batteries that recently went online at University of California, Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering is one of the largest of its kind at a university, anywhere in…
It has been widely reported that things at Electric Car Battery Company A123 Systems are not looking good. Thanks to a recall of faulty Lithium-ion batteries, the Massachusetts-based company posted losses of $125 million, up…
Formula one racing cars use powerful regenerative batteries for their Kinetic Energy Recovery System (KERS), and these may have been to blame in a pit lane fire at the Barcelona Grand Prix on the 13th…
With 400,000 mobile towers already built and 250,000 planned, one of the fastest growing mobile markets in the world represents a golden opportunity for the Canadian-based producer of lithium battery systems. By partnering with TaraSpan…
AES Energy Storage and AES Gener, the company’s Chilean subsidiary will integrate 20MW of advanced battery-based energy storage with a 544MW thermal power plant in the North of the country. The project will allow the…