lithium ion batteries

Zero Motorcycles introduced a fancy new street bike today, as well as a more energy-dense battery pack. Here's how it all works.

We spoke with James Dyson about his company's pursuit of this next-gen battery type to power its gadgets of the future.

Here's why the lithium ion battery deserved a win.

Our favorite science images of the week

Charge your phone with that white stuff from the beach

Powerful X-ray images are showing for the first time what happens inside a working battery as it discharges power, and...

Nanotechnology promises to enable tiny, intricate circuits powering devices on any surface. But unless they’re harvesting energy from something like...

Yesterday, GM announced that it would start using an advanced lithium-ion electrode material developed by Argonne National Laboratory. Turns out that an early version of that material is already blended into the Volt’s batteries. But that’s not the end of the story: Expect dramatically better EV batteries based on the compound very soon

Findings could lead to better batteries

New DARPA-funded research could revolutionize portable power supplies, leading to lithium-ion batteries that are smaller than a grain of salt....