GigaomSomeday we could all have a home battery
One day it could be common to have a home battery to store energy from a solar panel, and some battery makers and startups showed off their home batteries at DistribuTECH… Read more »
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One day it could be common to have a home battery to store energy from a solar panel, and some battery makers and startups showed off their home batteries at DistribuTECH… Read more »
The fourth quarter also saw a first glimpse of how well the electric vehicle (EV) market is doing. So far it’s pretty tepid, with Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt sales figures… Read more »
Which stories dominated the green GigaOM clicks in 2011? This year was filled with smart thermostats, a dream of Apple getting into solar, the bankruptcy of Solyndra, the efficiency of cloud… Read more »
If there is one thing to know about the pace of progress for battery innovation, it’s this: There is no Moore’s law for batteries. The rapid progress that has been made… Read more »
The supply of batteries for electric cars could far surpass the demand for electric vehicles over the next few years, estimates Lux Research. It could be a “severe mismatch,” that could… Read more »
Looking ahead to the age of the electric vehicle and the smart grid, the in-vehicle app landscape will take another turn as it becomes a part of the same infrastructure that… Read more »
Can the next generation of electric vehicle batteries make the jump into grid energy storage? This week saw Nissan and Sumitomo form a JV to recycle partly spent car batteries (like… Read more »
Lithium ion battery maker A123 Systems (s AONE) officially opened up its stimulus money-funded battery factory in Michigan, which will eventually reach 600 megawatt hours of annual production capacity, and, according… Read more »
With the Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf only months away from hitting U.S. roads in appreciable numbers, charging stations are getting a lot of attention. It’s too bad battery swapping can’t… Read more »
Your mileage will always vary, regardless of what vehicle you drive. Here’s a cheat sheet comparing 12 upcoming and currently available plug-in models, their batteries, charge times and estimated range, and… Read more »