Storage

Flow batteries offer significant advantages over lithium-ion batteries. They have a much longer lifespan, can be fully discharged and recharged many thousands of times without damage, and have no danger of explosion or fire due to overheating. They also...

Tesla has been able to turn its manufacturing plants into an attraction. The company offers regular tours of its Fremont factory for Tesla owners to see where their cars are coming from and it even pushed an “industrial tourism”...

A new technology bought by battery storage firm Printed Energy promises to do what the company’s name suggests – print out ultra-thin, flexible screen-printed batteries, on top of ultra-thin flexible screen printed solar panels – and engineer another major reduction in renewable...

Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of Tesla, will build the world’s largest lithium ion battery to store renewable energy in South Australia in partnership with French energy utility Neoen. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/883169447472750592 The 129MWh battery, which is paired with a wind farm, is...

In the battle of the batteries, lithium-ion technology is the reigning champion, powering that cellphone in your pocket as well as an increasing number of electric vehicles on the road. But a novel manganese and sodium-ion-based material developed at The...

Trent Basin in Nottingham, UK will soon be receiving a $130 million housing development project, which will include a 2 MWh Tesla Powerpack Energy Storage System (ESS). The new Nottingham project will create around 500 homes, which means there will...

StoreDot is an Israeli storage tech startup and over the past few years, they have touted a revolutionary battery which is both energy dense and quick to recharge. Recently, the company showed off a prototype which could apparently be recharged...

Darwin, Australia may soon become home to the country’s first “gigafactory”, thanks to a consortium planning on creating a large-scale lithium-ion production plant by the end of next year. Energy Renaissance is a company supported by engineering group UGL, and...

Elon Musk has hinted that a massive Tesla factory in India may be in the works, which should be exciting new for Tesla investors and potential customers in India. Recently Elon Musk posted on his Twitter account that he was...

A new battery shaped like a ream of paper has an impressive amount of energy density, which has the ability to increase the range of electric vehicles. The German company Mobile Energy Storage Systems is attempting to double the energy...