is Thunder Sky for real? here is a testimonial about a personal electric car project, using Thunder Sky batteries. from Yahoo groups...

http://www.technologyreview.com/video/?vid=308 Well, according to this video, what Chrysler's getting is pretty much identical to their work on...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/02/business/global/02electric.html?ref=global SaoBao EV is a sister car of Miles XS500, an electric car built on...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123861479503479353.html A123's first automotive battery customer is revealed; interestingly, it's China's SAIC,...

I thought it was an April Fools joke. It reads like something out of a science fiction novel. They use bacteria to grow "green" lithium ion...

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13746_7-10187390-48.html?tag=mncol;posts They even have a Volt concept plugged in in one of the slide show pictures....

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2009/03/lithium-breakthrough-could-charge-batteries-in-10-seconds.ars

New Nanoscale supercapacitor can store 100 times more energy "March 23, 2009 It has been a big week for news on advances in energy storage...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has the lead on developing the U.S. National standards for the smart grid. V2G (Vehicle to...

Not much new, if anything, since Lyle has already reported most of this, but a nice summary nevertheless:...

Followers of the EEStor story might also take a look at this site: http://homepage.hispeed.ch/Quantum-Battery/ "The MOS capacitor changes its...

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/tech/2009/03/133_41371.html

Prototype Capacitors to Replace Batteries "UM chemist Gary Rubloff, who is heading the research, says that the new device his team has created is...

I read an interesting article in the morning Detroit Freepress. Willet Kempton from the University of Delaware is proposing a future use of electric...

http://ipcommunications.tmcnet.com/news/2008/11/11/3776376.htm I've read these articles months ago and thought i'd like to share. S. Korean...

This link points to a discussion of a presentation that was made for NASA. It seems interesting: http://www.theeestory.com/topics/1396 If you...

Does anyone know of any studies done on the amount of energy used to produce Li-ion batteries (especially ones that consider Li mining/production)? ...

Source: http://www.allcarselectric.com/blog/1019442_breakthrough-spin-battery-size-of-hair-could-run-electric-car-for-miles

I'm curious about elevated temperature performances of these batteries. Does anyone know the cycle count for these cells at 55-60C or rates of 1C/1C...

are any 1000+ cycle-life lithium batteries for sale to the general public? I am suprised that there are not more do-it-yourself, college, etc,...