A thermal battery pilot project that harnesses excess wind power from UMN Morris’ two turbines to heat campus shop could be ...

Engineers are turning to a chemistry that ancient Romans perfected two millennia ago to build thermal batteries capable of storing cheap, abundant heat for industrial use. By exploiting the reversible ...

China’s latest advance in thermal batteries is not just another incremental tweak to energy storage. By redesigning how ions move inside high temperature cells, researchers have attacked the core ...

Thermal batteries use heat to store energy, which can be converted into electricity or heat when needed. Thermal batteries are gaining attention as a viable alternative to lithium-ion batteries for ...

An object about the size of cell phone glows bright red inside a kiln in a laboratory. Thermal batteries, like this prototype from Electrified Thermal Solutions, can beat the efficiency of ...

Transition metal fluorides are widely regarded as promising cathode materials because of their high theoretical voltages and excellent thermal stability. However, in real batteries these materials ...

Wright Electric has built the rotor for its planned 2.5 megawatt electric motor, and plans to complete assembly this summer before starting ground testing.

close-up model of a battery for an electric vehicle - Kynny/Getty Images Battery tech has come a long way over the years, with new solid state batteries which hold almost double the charge of some ...