Researchers Use Carbon-Air Battery in Breakthrough for Next-Generation Storage Systems

The power sector is undergoing a rapid change globally as the world shifts to renewable energy and cuts down on using fossil fuels. However, a big roadblock to generating electricity from wind and solar energy is their intermittent nature due to unfavourable environmental conditions. To address this problem, storage was found in hydrogen batteries. But these, too, suffered from poor efficiency and required massive space to build, which made them complex for thermal management. Now, researchers at a Japanese institute say they have found a way to make renewable energy…

Read More

High-Efficiency Buck-Boost Converter Prolongs Battery Life

Texas Instruments rolled out a new buck-boost converter with advanced power management that it said can boost the battery life of industrial and consumer Internet of Things devices by over 50%. According to TI, the TPS63900 integrates programmable input current limits and dynamic voltage scaling to prolong the life of smaller, cheaper batteries used in IoT devices, ranging from smart door locks to sensors slapped on a factory floor or on the side of a building. It is a high-efficiency synchronous dc-dc buck-boost converter with a wide range of input…

Read More

Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Battery Doesn’t Charge After Reaching 0 Percent, Some Users Claim

HIGHLIGHTS The reported issue makes Samsung Galaxy Note 8 unresponsive Multiple users complained on Samsung Community Forums Samsung acknowledges the problem Several users have reported they aren’t able to charge their Samsung Galaxy Note 8 units once their battery reaches zero percent charge. The South Korean giant has acknowledged the issue and can be expected to provide warranty replacements. Last year, Samsung was in the headlines for a battery-related fire hazard on the Galaxy Note 7. The company even recalled that Galaxy Note model after reports of its explosions being surfaced worldwide. Reports of unresponsive Galaxy Note 8 have emerged on…

Read More

Toyota and Panasonic launch car battery study

Toyota and Panasonic are to launch a study into a partnership to develop battery technology for electric cars. The move by the Japanese carmaker and the world’s biggest supplier of automotive batteries signals a deeper push into the development of electric vehicles. In a rare public appearance, Akio Toyoda, Toyota’s president, and Kazuhiro Tsuga, his counterpart at Panasonic, announced the companies would look at joining forces to speed up commercialisation of next-generation battery technologies. The tie-up could give Toyota confidence over battery supply. The company aims to hit annual sales of 5.5m electrified vehicles, which…

Read More

Tesla Beats Deadline for Building World’s Biggest Battery

Entrepreneur Elon Musk has won a $50 million (roughly Rs. 324 crores) bet by beating a 100-day deadline for building a giant battery to help South Australia avoid energy blackouts, officials said. State Premier Jay Weatherill said testing of the massive lithium ion battery would begin within days, ahead of the December 1 deadline Musk set for himself when he signed off on the project earlier this year. Musk had pledged to build the battery in the South Australian outback for free if it was not completed within the 100 days. He…

Read More

Moto G (Gen 4) aka Moto G4 Battery, digicam, and performance Teased

Motorola is anticipated to release its plenty-awaited Moto G (Gen four) aka Moto G4 in India on may also 17, and the Lenovo-owned business enterprise has started rolling out teasers for the upcoming smartphone. The Motorola India Twitter manage has published a sequence of teaser pictures with hashtag #missing on the social media internet site hinting at diverse functions the Moto G4 might recreation. The teaser images show extraordinary customers facing various troubles, none of which might be an difficulty for the upcoming Moto G4. The teasers mention users’ smartphones…

Read More