(Natural News) Tesla is building a giant, 100-megawatt (MW) energy storage facility in Texas. The facility is being built in Angleton, Texas, outside of Houston and will plug into the state’s power grid. The project, which is operating under a Tesla subsidiary called Gambit Energy Storage LLC, has yet to be officially announced as of the time […]

(Natural News) A new battery manufacturing plant to be built by Toyota for electric vehicles is expected to create 1,750 jobs in North Carolina. The Toyota Battery Manufacturing is set to open in 2025 at the North Carolina Greensboro-Randolph Megasite. There will be four production lines in the plant, each capable of producing enough lithium-ion batteries […]

(Natural News) Physicists from the University of Arkansas (UArk) have successfully developed a circuit capable of generating electricity from the natural thermal motion of graphene. “An energy-harvesting circuit based on graphene could be incorporated into a chip to provide clean, limitless, low-voltage power for small devices or sensors,” said lead researchers Paul Thibado, a professor of physics […]

(Natural News) A recent study has figured out how valuable materials in old electric vehicle (EV) batteries can be “harvested” and used to make new batteries. The disposal of old batteries remains a significant challenge for EVs. Once these batteries reach the end of their service lives, they are dumped as electronic waste or e-waste. […]

(Natural News) The plummeting cost of batteries could mean that electric freight trucks may soon be cheaper than their diesel-powered equivalents to own and operate. This is according to a new report from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of California, Berkeley. Heavy-duty freight trucks are considered to be one of transportation’s hardest-to-decarbonize […]

(Natural News) In 2015, Hawaii made history, becoming the first US state to mandate a full transition to renewable energy. The legislation, signed into law by Gov. David Ige, mandated that state utilities generate 100 percent of electricity sales from renewable fuels by 2045. (Article by Jon Miltimore republished from FEE.org) Green energy publications noted that the move positioned […]

(Natural News) A new “plug and play” energy storage system could help meet the boom in demand for safe, renewable and secure solar energy storage in American homes. Engineers at Gridtential Energy, Inc. and Electric Applications Incorporated (EAI), with support from the Consortium for Battery Innovation (CBI), developed the Silicon Joule, new batteries using an […]

(Natural News) California startup Nano Diamond Battery (NDB) says it has designed a battery made from nuclear waste that will take up to 28,000 years to run out of charge. The “forever” diamond battery was developed for use in deep space and other niche applications, but a consumer-facing prototype is also in the works. The firm said that the latter model will be able to last for nine consecutive […]

(Natural News) The world’s largest automaker Volkswagen AG (VAG) announced that it would invest in six large battery factories across Europe by 2030. The announcement highlights the automaker’s efforts to take advantage of the expected boom in electric vehicle sales. The battery plants are expected to have a combined capacity of 240 gigawatt-hours a year. This would allow […]

(Natural News) Electric automaker Tesla has agreed to buy nickel from mine in New Caledonia, in the southwest Pacific Ocean, to secure its supply of the key battery metal. The deal amid growing concern over future supplies of the metal. This is after a 26 percent rally in nickel prices over the past year and growing […]