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Batteries

Joe Biden with a Ford Mustang EV at the North American International Auto Show.

South Korea Emerges As Key Partner for America’s Energy Transition

By June Kim
People visit the booth of CATL, a major power battery maker, at the Shanghai Auto Show in Shanghai, China Wednesday, April 19, 2023. Credit: Long Wei / Feature China/Future Publishing via Getty Images

A New Battery Intended to Power Passenger Airplanes and EVs, Explained

By Dan Gearino
Lithium-air battery cells photographed in the lab of Mohammad Asadi at the Illinois Institute of Technology. The cells, about the size of a button or a dime, are hooked up to battery analysis equipment. Credit: Illinois Institute of Technology

This Dime-Sized Battery Is a Step Toward an EV With a 1,000-Mile Range

By Dan Gearino
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer speaks at Our Next Energy's ribbon cutting ceremony in Novi, Michigan. Photo Courtesy of the Executive Office of the Governor of Michigan

The EV Battery Boom Is Here, With Manufacturers Investing Billions in Midwest Factories

By Dan Gearino
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's scientist Kyu Taek Cho observes the behavior of a flow battery's chemistry. Credit: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

How a New ‘Battery Data Genome’ Project Will Use Vast Amounts of Information to Build Better EVs

By Dan Gearino
Wheatridge wind turbines

A Clean Energy Trifecta: Wind, Solar and Storage in the Same Project

By Dan Gearino
The Moss Landing Energy Storage facility has 400 megawatts of capacity and the ability to run at that level for up to four hours. Credit: Vistra Corp.

Inside Clean Energy: Did You Miss Me? A Giant Battery Storage Plant Is Back Online, Just in Time for Summer

By Dan Gearino
Thacker Pass, in the far northern reaches of Nevada, permits have been approved for a massive lithium mine, drawing protest from the local Indigenous population, ranchers, and environmentalists. Credit: Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Powering Electric Cars: the Race to Mine Lithium in America’s Backyard

By Aime Williams, The Financial Times
A Li-Cycle employee oversees lithium-ion batteries on a conveyor belt at the company’s plant near Rochester, New York. Photo courtesy of Li-Cycle.

Inside Clean Energy: Here Come the Battery Recyclers

By Dan Gearino

Inside Clean Energy: Batteries Got Cheaper in 2021. So How Close Are We to EVs That Cost Less than Gasoline Vehicles?

By Dan Gearino
Workers install battery modules at the Manatee Energy Storage Center in Florida, being developed by Florida Power & Light. The project, on track to be complete by the end of the year, will have 409 megawatts of capacity, which would make it the largest battery storage project in the world by capacity. Photo Courtesy of Florida Power & Light

Inside Clean Energy: Taking Stock of the Energy Storage Boom Happening Right Now

By Dan Gearino
Vistra's lithium-ion battery system is co-located on the site of its existing Moss Landing Power Plant in Monterey County. Photo Courtesy of Vistra Corp.

Inside Clean Energy: In California, the World’s Largest Battery Storage System Gets Even Larger

By Dan Gearino
Sandia National Laboratories researchers Leo Small (back right) and Erik Spoerke (back left) observe as Martha Gross (front) works in a glovebox on a new kind of molten-sodium battery. Credit: Randy Montoya

Inside Clean Energy: In a Week of Sobering Climate News, Let’s Talk About Batteries

By Dan Gearino
Solar photovoltaic power plant farm installation on Long Island, New York. Ohio now ranks 28th in the country in installed solar capacity, but ranks 14th in projected new capacity coming online in the next five years. Credit: Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: The Solar Boom Arrives in Ohio

By Dan Gearino

Stimulus Spurs Battery Manufacturing in America, But Asia Still the One to Beat

By Stacy Feldman

EVs Challenge to Entrepreneurs: Find New Use for Spent Batteries

By Johanna Peace

Electric Energy Storage: Digging the Foundations (Part II)

By L.D. Gussin

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