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A team of Harvard scientists and engineers has demonstrated a rechargeable battery that could make storing electricity from intermittently available energy sources (e.g., sun and wind) safe and cost-effective for both residential and commercial use. The research builds on earlier work by members of the same team that could enable cheaper and more reliable electricity storage at the grid level.

Steve Rogerson looks at how electricity suppliers are handling the growth of renewable energy and still managing to balance supply versus demand.

Self-driving cars are hot right now and, in addition to helping make drivers' lives easier, they can help make EVs more affordable, says Lux Research. Specifically, plug-in vehicles can save up to $1,800 in battery costs or extend driving range by 24 miles with the addition of autonomous features like self-parking.

Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum imparts extensive expertise in vacuum technology to one of the most challenging transportation projects of the future. The German-American visionary Dirk Ahlborn, CEO of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, has set the goal of making the seemingly utopian idea of Tesla founder Elon Musk become reality: From 2018 onward, people shall travel with aircraft speed through a reduced pressure tube system.

A 1U server supporting four double slot GPU/computing cards has been introduced by GIGABYTE Technology. The G190-H44 barebone server is an NVIDIA GRID certified server solution that supports the Tesla M60 card.

According to Lux Research, Panasonic is currently the runaway leader in the nascent battery market for EVs, but LG Chem has the potential to overtake it in what will be a $30bn market in 2020.

If you pry open one of today’s ubiquitous high-tech devices - whether a cellphone, a laptop, or an electric car - you’ll find that batteries take up most of the space inside. Indeed, the recent evolution of batteries has made it possible to pack ample power in small places.But people still always want their devices to last even longer, or go further on a charge, so researchers work night and day to boost the power a given size battery...

Tracking the development of 45 electric vehicle categories (not just electric cars), IDTechEx research indicates that there are now Li-ion battery options for everything from forklifts and mobility vehicles to e-bikes. Indeed, almost all the e-bikes in the West and Japan use them. 8,000 forklifts in the USA have fuel cells with Li-ion batteries though the Toyota Mirai fuel cell car and the Prius hybrid car still use NiMH.

ByProfessor Roberto Palacin,Senior Research Associate, Railway Systems Research Group, Newcastle University. As the world’s population becomes increasingly urbanised, it is estimated that the number of journeys measured in passenger-kilometres will triple by 2050. Roads simply can’t absorb this increase.

SMP Sintermetalle Prometheus has expanded the performance range of its products. The range of inductive components is designed for currents up to 3000A and frequencies up to 500kHz, which can be increased to as much as 2MHz in special applications. SMP uses powder composite materials that have been developed and manufactured entirely in-house and feature lower eddy current and magnetic reversal losses.