Toyota’s Advanced Battery Roadmap 2026-2030

Toyota has published an advanced battery roadmap in September, 2023 which has new iron phosphate batteries and solid state batteries in 2026. Toyota’s strategy includes three new liquid electrolyte battery technologies to achieve higher power, longer driving range, faster charging and lower cost and mass production of solid-state batteries. They will have next generation batteries. …

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Progress to Lithium Air Battery With 4X Energy Density of Lithium Batteries

The lithium-air battery has the highest projected energy density of any battery technology being considered for the next generation of batteries beyond lithium-ion. The Argonne Lab team’s lithium-air design is the first lithium-air battery that has achieved a four-electron reaction at room temperature. It also operates with oxygen supplied by air from the surrounding environment. …

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CATL and Other Battery Makers Race to Stay Ahead of Tesla Batteries

CATL is the largest lithium-ion battery supplier in the world and they plan to increase production by four times to 263 GWh in 2023. CATL Chairman Zeng Yuqun said global lithium battery market demand will increase significantly starting in 2021. Zeng said growth of capacity in the entire industry chain is relatively slow, and effective …

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Solid-State Quantum Battery

Quantum batteries should have faster charging time due to the quantum entanglement among the units. The units are all coupled to a common quantized electromagnetic mode, and photons from the energy source mediate a long-range interaction between units, generating entanglement among them. The enhancement increases as the number of units increases (specifically, when a quantum …

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London Fog of 1952 that killed 12000 and had an especially deadly combination of larger sulfate particles and nitrogen dioxide

The Great Smog, which blanketed London for five days in December 1952, is estimated by some experts to have killed more than 12,000 people and hospitalized 150,000. Thousands of animals also died. “People have known that sulfate was a big contributor to the fog, and sulfuric acid particles were formed from sulfur dioxide released by …

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South Korea debating making a nuclear submarine in response to North Korea’s submarine launched nuclear missile

South Korea has renewed calls to deploy nuclear-powered submarines on the battlefront, refueling debate about using the advanced weapons against North Korean ballistic missile threats. The communist state marked its first successful firing of a submarine-launched ballistic missile last week, undermining South Korea’s resolve to neutralize threats via land-based missile defense systems. “The SLBM launch …

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RB2015: Development Of Progenitor Cells for Spinal Cord Injury

Continuing the Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases track in the Rejuvenation Biotechnology Conference, Jane Lebkowski, President of R&D, Asterias Biotherapeutics Inc. discussed her group’s work on the development of pluripotent stem cell derived oligodendrocyte progenitor cells for the treatment of spinal cord injury. There are a myriad of after effects of spinal cord injury, including loss of …

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Tesla Motors will raise $500 million to accelerate gigafactory batteries and the revolutionary 100 kWh utility scale battery Powerpack with $250/kWh pricing

Telsa Motors announced that it intends to offer, subject to market and other conditions, $500 million of additional shares of common stock in an underwritten registered public offering. Elon Musk, Tesla’s CEO, intends to purchase $20 million of common stock in this offering at the public offering price. Tesla intends to use the net proceeds …

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