"One of the biggest hurdles wasn't a lack of promising battery chemistries -- it was the sheer impossibility of testing millions of material combinations," Datta said. "We turned to generative AI as a ...

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Emily Drueke is "heartbroken" this Valentine's Day — not because of her love life, but because that's the layoff date for her and her husband as Ford Motor Co.'s joint-venture battery plant in ...

2025 brought big changes to the smartphone battery department, with manufacturers adding silicon-carbon batteries that massively increase capacity without increasing the size of the battery or, by ...

Solid-state batteries could store more energy and charge faster than today’s batteries, but they tend to crack and fail over time. Stanford researchers found that a nanoscale silver treatment can ...

The new Naxtra battery will be installed in Changan EVs this week for winter testing in northern China’s Inner Mongolia region.CATL Chinese battery giant CATL and automaker Changan have unveiled the ...

A broad new smartphone test has found that Apple devices lead the industry for battery life, with the iPhone 17 Pro Max ranking as the longest-lasting phone tested and Apple tied as the top overall ...

Leading global battery maker CATL and Changan Automobile unveiled the world’s first passenger EV powered by a sodium-ion battery on Thursday. CATL unveils world’s first sodium-ion battery EV CATL and ...

Solid-state EV batteries, deemed the “holy grail” of battery tech, are moving from the lab to reality, even in the US. Factorial launches solid-state battery program in the US Factorial Energy has ...

Even as American automakers have scaled back their ambitions for electric vehicles, some are pivoting to a technology that could help boost renewable energy. By Claire Brown Last year was a tough one ...

Expect to see new chemistries hitting the roads, a shifting policy landscape, and a renewed focus on cost and performance. MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, ...