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Lithium battery prices set to rise
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Wednesday, 28 September 2016 11:32

Lithium battery prices set to rise


Short supply

The prices of Lithium batteries are set to rise because of a production shortage which could result in a general electronics price hike.

Nissan wants to sell its battery stake
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Monday, 08 August 2016 12:43

Nissan wants to sell its battery stake


She's electric

Nissan Motors  is in talks with Panasonic and others over its controlling stake in a car battery manufacturing venture, sources said.

UCI researcher discovers important Li-Ion battery breakthrough
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MnO2-coated batteries can now last 400 years, 200,000 cycles


Doctoral research student Maya Le Thai was working in her laboratory with nanobatteries one day when she decided to try a new approach. She coated an entire gold nanowire with a manganese dioxide MnO2 shell and covered the assembly with a "plexiglass-like" electrolyte gel, but the resulting outcome was completely unexpected.