Hot Topics
The Lead-Acid Battery Goes to Work At Last
As lead-acid batteries improved during the late nineteenth century, their usefulness extended far beyond electric vehicles. Read on to learn…
Hot Cars and Hot Batteries Don’t Mix
Mankind invented batteries, and so it seems logical they are both happiest within the same ambient temperature range. Neither of…
WHAT'S NEW
Lithium-ion batteries discharge and recharge their electrical energy, by shuttling ions between their electrodes. Some of these ions become trapped…
The unfolding facts about batteries tell us where they came from, and hint at where they are going. They once…
The active materials in the batteries we know are the two electrodes. These play a critical role in electro-chemical reactions,…
For many decades, we put our used batteries in the trash, and they ended up in landfill. Then we got…