On a recent work trip, I had plenty of things to worry about — but being able to recharge my two smartphones, laptop and iPad were not among my concerns. In my carry-on luggage, I had two medium-cap [...]
The Powerbeats Pro 2 ($250) was hardly a secret. Although Beats officially announced the new fitness-focused earbuds today, it has been teasing them since last September. And over the last few weeks, [...]
China will impose a consumption tax on lithium-ion and solar batteries for the first time in a decade, marking a policy shift as Beijing seeks to rein in overcapacity and destructive price wars in ind [...]
General Motors is pushing into energy storage for data centres and the electrical grid, announcing a sodium-ion battery development partnership with Peak Energy, a lithium iron phosphate supply deal w [...]
Lu Yaxiang, a professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Physics, has spent a decade making sodium-ion batteries commercially viable. In April, he received China’s Youth May Fourth [...]