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John B. Goodenough, 100, Dies; Nobel-Winning Creator of the Lithium-Ion Battery

He was, he said in a memoir, “Witness to Grace” (2008), the unwanted child of an agnostic Yale University professor of religion and a mother with whom he never bonded. […]







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Dual-chemistry battery tech could push BMW’s iX EV to 600-mile range

Startup Our Next Energy is behind the energy storage tech Tim De Chant 8 hours Battery startup Our Next Energy (ONE) and BMW today said the carmaker’s prototype of its flagship […]




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Automakers have battery anxiety, so they’re taking control of the supply

‘The batteries don’t show up, you’re bankrupt, you’re dead’ Rebecca Bellan 14 hours Battery joint ventures have become the hot must-have deal for automakers that have set ambitious targets to […]




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From the ashes of nearly a billion dollars, Ample resurrects Better Place’s battery swapping business model

A little over thirteen years ago, Shai Agassi, a promising software executive who was in line to succeed the chief executive at SAP, then one of the world’s mightiest software […]




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Volta Energy Technologies raises over $90M of a targeted $150M fund to back energy storage startups

Volta Energy Technologies, the energy investment and advisory services firm backed by some of the biggest names in energy and energy storage materials, has closed on nearly $90 million of […]