Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers have developed a new aluminum-ion battery that could address critical challenges in renewable energy storage. It ...

compete with the iconic lithium-ion batteries that today power up everything from cell phones to electric vehicles. A newly-formed Albuquerque startup, Flow Aluminum Inc., is now working to take that ...

Flow Aluminum earlier this month announced it reached a major milestone in its efforts to create new and more efficient batteries. Flow Aluminum, an Albuquerque-based startup, is working to create a ...

Large batteries for long-term storage of solar and wind power are key to integrating abundant and renewable energy sources into the U.S. power grid. However, there is a lack of safe and reliable ...

Researchers are using aluminum foil to create batteries with higher energy density and greater stability. The team's new battery system could enable electric vehicles to run longer on a single charge ...

A rechargeable battery technology that offers many advantages over lithium-ion batteries. Aluminum-ion batteries for EVs are expected to fully charge in as little as 10 minutes, hold more energy and ...

Aluminum has an energy density more than 50 times higher than lithium ion, if you treat it as an energy storage medium in a redox cycle battery. Swiss scientists are developing the technology as a ...

If you think of metals in a battery, you probably think of lithium, mercury, lead, nickel, and cadmium. But researchers in Australia and China want you to think about aluminum. Unlike most battery ...

Aluminum-ion batteries are viewed as a viable replacement for traditional batteries, which rely on limited and difficult-to-recycle basic elements like lithium. This is due to the fact that lithium is ...

Researchers from China’s Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics recently unveiled a new EV battery technology aimed at delivering stronger performance in freezing conditions than traditional lithium-ion ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed a battery with two electrodes made of aluminum and sulfur, and a molten salt electrolyte placed between them. They said the sulfur ...