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GM wants to slash EV prices by deploying new battery tech up to a year earlier than planned. This building is key to making that happen.
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GM wants to slash EV prices by deploying new battery tech up to a year earlier than planned. This building is key to making that happen.
From battery life to privacy, there are many hurdles to the idea taking off.
Most of Belkin's Switch 2 accessories are designed to either protect or power up Nintendo's latest handheld, like its Charging Case Pro that actually does both at the same time. Its new multitasking Charging Grip can also add three or four more hours of playtime through an included 10,000mAh battery pack, while improving the Switch [โฆ]
The company announced a deal with B2U Storage Solutions to repurpose the battery packs as Waymo pulls them off the road.
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Used Waymo batteries will bolster California and Texas energy storage projects.
Nintendo is planning to launch versions of Switch 2 hardware in the EU that will let users easily replace the battery. To meet its obligations from a new EU regulation that's set to go into effect on February 18th, 2027, Nintendo says on its website that it is "implementing measures to comply with these requirements [โฆ]
Compact power banks have gotten a lot faster in the past year โ and itโs not just their USB-C charging speeds that have received a boost. The newest Qi2.2-certified models can wirelessly charge an iPhone 16 or later at up to 25W. Combine that with their ability to magnetically snap on via MagSafe, and youโve [โฆ]
Nvidia's announcement that it's getting into the consumer laptop chip space with RTX Spark is huge. Apple has proved for years that Arm-based chips can perform incredibly well while also delivering great battery life - at least on the Mac. In the Windows world, performance hasn't fully matched up under Qualcomm chips, mostly in the [โฆ]
โNot in my backyardโ is the rallying cry of citizens everywhere resisting projects proposed for their locality. Whether itโs affordable housing, a waste treatment plant, or a new data center, they may recognize the benefit of the activity. They just donโt want it near them. And the roots of that resistance differ from place to place. When it comes to the ongoing transition from fossil fuels to renewables, companies and policymakers need to know where, exactly, people are coming from. The Italian island of Sardinia is a textbook example. As IEEE Spectrumโs power and energy editor Emily Waltz discovered when she traveled there last October, Sardinian opposition to wind and solar projects runs deep. It spurred a quarter of the voting population to queue up in public squares in 2024 to sign a petition banning all construction of renewable energy. Waltz was surprised. She went there to see a promising new grid-scale energy storage system that uses domes inflated with carbon dioxide. While reporting on that project, she interviewed residents, engineers, activists, and professors about their attitudes toward climate change and the Italian governmentโs grand plans for renewable energy on the island. And Waltz soon learned of Sardiniansโ profound antipathy toward renewable energy and its deep ties to a history of invasion, occupation, and exploitation stretching back 2,700 years. It started with the Phoenicians and then extended through the Romans, the Byzantines, and the Iberians. Sardinia was absorbed into a newly unified Italy in 1861, and it became an autonomous region of Italy in 1948. The islandโs population is justifiably suspicious of outsiders, including the Italian government. โWhen youโre in Sardinia, the weight of historyโyou can feel it like in the air,โ Waltz told me. โAnd it gets passed down from one generation to the next.โ Now, Italy needs Sardinia to produce even more power to meet the countryโs climate goalsโsomething that Sardinians see as Romeโs problem, not theirs. โSardinia already exports about 30 percent of its electricity. Itโs not like they need more,โ Waltz says. โSo itโs hard to make the case to build, build, build.โ The result of Waltzโs old-fashioned shoe leather reporting is this monthโs cover story. She notes that the Sardinians she talked to arenโt climate-change deniers, and they donโt object to renewables per se. They just donโt like the way corporations and Italian policymakers are trying to plug into Sardinia like itโs one giant battery rather than the home of an ancient and proud people. โI think Sardinians would be more receptive to renewable projects if it was more of a ground-up, grassroots approach,โ Waltz says. Indeed, this homegrown approach is already working in some places in Sardinia. She knows of more than 50 projects, called energy communities, where the residents are deploying renewables themselves. The idea also holds promise for other places struggling to get locals to buy into the renewable-energy transition. The Sardinian experience is both a cautionary tale and a blueprint. Ignore the weight of history that communities carry and your project risks failure. Meet the people where they are and you might just get somewhere. The same lesson applies whether youโre in Sulawesi or sub-Saharan Africa. You just have to show up to learn it.
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more news about gadgets and smartphones, follow Dominic Preston. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started In 2023, the European Union agreed on two landmark pieces [โฆ]
Despite headwinds from the current administration, automakers continue to release well-equipped EVs with bigger battery packs and increasingly faster charging speeds. For those who want to travel further between plugging in, the future is still bright, just slightly tinted. But there haven't been many sedans starting around or below $50,000, as crossover SUVs have largely [โฆ]
Nine months in, CEO Dan Rogers is betting a $75 million acquisition of AI agent builder Stack AI can reposition the company for the AI era.
Researchers say theyโve found a new way to extract lithium, a crucial metal used in the lithium-ion batteries that power electric vehicles and energy storage arrays. This new technique could be more environmentally friendly and cheaper than existing ones. The research was published today in Science, and a startup called Rock Zero is working toโฆ
Xiaomi has announced the 17T and 17T Pro, two cheaper spins on its 17 series flagships. As is usual for the T-series, the focus is more on performance than photography, with the biggest batteries Xiaomi has included on any of its phones outside China yet. The 17T includes a 6,500mAh silicon-carbon battery, while the 17T [โฆ]
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I first realized there was an issue with Kia's flagship EV9 when I tried to unlock my car last year. The hulking three-row SUV was sitting on my driveway completely dead. The key didn't work, the app connection to the car was gone, and I was already late to an appointment. Luckily, I had prepared [โฆ]
The ring is 40% smaller than its predecessor, and comes with more accurate sensing, enhanced battery life, and more.
This year, thereโs been a wave of notable energy companies going public via IPO in the US. The solar and battery company Solv Energy went public in February, to the tune of $6 billion. X-energy, which is building small modular nuclear reactors, did the same in April, and its stocks surged on its first dayโฆ
The Series B round was led by Battery Ventures.