lithium ion batteries

"Catastrophic lithium-ion battery failure" are f

Not the jolliest of news if you were waiting on a fresh new Leaf EV to blow in any time soon, as Nissan has had to understandably delay shipments as a result of the natural disaster that has

116 miles in an electric vehicle?

No problem. But you'll quite literally be pushing your new Nissan Leaf another 250 miles to achieve what's being hailed as a world record in Germany.

Claims of better, safer lithium-ion batteries aren't exactly hard to find, but some researchers fro

Well, it looks like HP is no longer your only option to get Boston-Power's "game-changing" Sonata batteries --

Before lithium-ion batteries, portable gadgets were a nightmare, forcing road warriors and Discman-toting teens to either swap disposable cells or deal with rechargables that (with few exceptions) were tricky to recharge.

Longer battery life is high atop our list of gadget prayers, and the brainiacs at Stanford are one step closer to making our dreams come true with a new lithium-sulfur technology.

Huzzah!