Robin Zeng, founder and chairman of CATL, says Musk's 4860 battery design "is going to fail and never be successful." Reading time 2 minutes The founder and chairman of CATL, one of the world’s ...

We don’t normally think of batteries as being natural, but the parts that make them originally got their start in nature! In this activity you will build a battery using potatoes, lemons, and metal ...

A battery usually hides its nastiest chemistry from view. Inside many rechargeable systems, useful energy moves through liquids that are strongly acidic, alkaline, flammable, corrosive, or difficult ...

A time traveler visiting from the 1960s might be somewhat disappointed by the state of technological progress in 2025. There are no flying cars, no space hotels, no robot butlers. But even though they ...

Making a battery for an electric vehicle typically requires mining hundreds of pounds of hard-to-extract minerals. That’s put a spotlight on batteries’ heavy environmental toll, at least upfront. But ...

Lithium and standard lead-acid car batteries both have their pros and cons, and for some owners, switching to the former has ...