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Charging Ahead: EV Industry Reshaping Automotive Landscape

Charging Ahead: EV Industry Reshaping Automotive Landscape

Incentives, awareness, and efforts to advance electric vehicles a driving a boom in the industry, but a lack of charging infrastructure threatens…


Tipping Point? Apple To Use Recycled Cobalt in All Its Batteries

Tipping Point? Apple To Use Recycled Cobalt in All Its Batteries

The company plans to use only recycled cobalt by 2025.


Does $10.6B Lithium Mining Merger Make Sense?

Does $10.6B Lithium Mining Merger Make Sense?

Allkem and Livent will combine to form the fifth-largest lithium producer, with plans to grow. 


Earnings Analysis: What do EV Makers’ Sales Mean?

Earnings Analysis: What do EV Makers’ Sales Mean?

Recent earnings reports from several leading automakers show solid sales figures as they make headway in the electric vehicle market. Here’s the…


Celebrating the Smart Grid Enabling Ethernet

Celebrating the Smart Grid Enabling Ethernet

Fifty years after it was first proposed, the Ethernet has enabled the Internet and the development of smart power grids.


Powering a Green Future: Insights from Infineon’s Peter Wawer

Powering a Green Future: Insights from Infineon’s Peter Wawer

Dr. Peter Wawer brings insights from a distinguished career that has touched three unique major semiconductor technologies: silicon photovoltaics,…


Examining the Role of ESSIs and Databases in Battery Energy Storage Systems

Examining the Role of ESSIs and Databases in Battery Energy Storage Systems

Energy storage system integrators develop and sell battery-powered energy storage systems. They are key to the growth of energy storage systems in…


Growing Lithium Needs Causing International Tension

Growing Lithium Needs Causing International Tension

Chile nationalizes its lithium production while the rest of the world depends on China to obtain the key element to current and future battery…


Funding Initiatives Address Job Skills Issues for Energy Engineers

Funding Initiatives Address Job Skills Issues for Energy Engineers

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funds five DOE-selected Regional Centers of Excellence to support the training of students and workers for clean…


Video Gaming Model Trains Next-Gen Nuclear Engineers

Video Gaming Model Trains Next-Gen Nuclear Engineers

A compelling use case for how extended reality and video game-inspired tools can be used to train the next-generation energy workforce. 


ML-based Energy Modeling Could Optimize Sustainable Designs

ML-based Energy Modeling Could Optimize Sustainable Designs

A look at introducing machine learning techniques to help designers complete energy modeling and reduce the building sector's environmental…


Earth Day: A Primer and Call to Action

Earth Day: A Primer and Call to Action

Fifty-four years after the first Earth Day, great progress has been made, but great challenges remain.


Carbon Capture: Decarbonization Maturation

Carbon Capture: Decarbonization Maturation

Carbon capture and creative waste management could be keys to putting less carbon into the atmosphere.


Is Extreme EV Fast Charging on the Horizon?

Is Extreme EV Fast Charging on the Horizon?

Extreme EV charging might be possible thanks to recent lithium-ion battery research. 


Revolutionizing Energy Demand Estimation With Machine Learning

Revolutionizing Energy Demand Estimation With Machine Learning

Researchers from University College Cork and Columbia University have published a study using TrebuNet, a machine learning technique, to better…


How the Energy IoT Aids the Energy Transition

How the Energy IoT Aids the Energy Transition

The energy internet of things could help resolve the issues of climate change and energy transition.   


Can Tesla Build 20 Million Cars Per Year By 2030?

Can Tesla Build 20 Million Cars Per Year By 2030?

The company is expanding its Gigafactory fleet with a new facility in Mexico, but building a third of the world’s new cars in just seven years is…


DOE, Stellantis Prepare Next-gen Battery Engineers

DOE, Stellantis Prepare Next-gen Battery Engineers

The industry needs a broader, more skilled battery engineering workforce. A new challenge sponsored by the U.S. government hopes to prepare the…


tech insights Apr 06, 2023 by Jake Hertz
Why and How Fast: The Energy Transition

Why and How Fast: The Energy Transition

Putting the energy transition and the effort required in perspective.


Sodium-aluminum Battery Heats Up Grid Storage

Sodium-aluminum Battery Heats Up Grid Storage

A new design of a molten sodium battery could find large-scale grid storage applications.