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Eco Factor: High-capacity cost-effective lithium-ion battery for electric cars and renewable energy storage. Panasonic has announced the development of a high-capacity lithium-ion battery module that is being claimed to be much safer and more...

Eco Factor: Lithium-air batteries with ten times more storage capacity to be developed by IBM. IBM has kicked off its Battery 500 Project, which if successful will result in the development of next-gen batteries which could boost the range of...

Eco Factor: Panasonic’s Li-ion batteries to be used in MIT’s solar car for the Global Green Challenge. Panasonic Corporation has announced that the company will support the MIT Solar Vehicle Team in their participation of the Global Green...

Eco Factor: Lithium-ion batteries for automobile applications from Hitachi. Lithium-Air batteries promise a 10X increase in storage capacity in lab tests, however, their practical use is a couple of decades away and till then car manufacturers...

Eco Factor: Energy-efficient batteries by Hitachi for electric and hybrid cars. Hitachi claims to have developed a new lithium-ion battery that tops its previous versions by 70% in output density. The batteries are intended to be used in next-gen..

Eco Factor: Batteries made from organic materials. Researchers at MIT have developed a new technique by which lithium-ion batteries could be made green, without showing any effect on the overall capacity and performance of the cells. The...

Eco Factor: Solar-powered street lights from Sanyo. Sanyo has launched solar-powered streetlights at the Eco-Products 2008 fair at the Tokyo Big Sight in Japan. The energy-efficient streetlights come with LED bulbs to make the energy captured...

Eco Factor: Replacing graphite anode with nano-silicon enhances current storage capacity of lithium-ion batteries. The only factor preventing global adoption of electric cars is the limited driving range of cars running on lithium batteries. The...

Eco Factor: Rapid-charging battery from Toshiba. Toshiba has announced the development of a new kind of lithium-ion battery that needs just 5 minutes of charge time for 90% charging. Known as SCiB or Super Charge Ion Battery, the battery is...

I have always been someone who believed that plastic and batteries are the most poisonous of all waste. Not just because they harm the planet, but they are used in such large number and with such frequency that they are always more dangerous than the...