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I Made a Long Duration Li-ion 18650 Battery for my RC Airplane | Li-ion vs LiPo

I made this amazing battery pack using 18650 cells, performing about 3X better than a LiPo battery of roughly the same weight ...
Electrek

The backup battery choice you didn’t know you had: li-ion, or vanadium flow?

Whether it’s to keep the lights on after a natural disaster or just to avoid peak energy rates, more people than ever are adding battery energy storage to their home solar systems. With some 45% of ...
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ISU trying to find ways to improve lithium-ion battery safety

Tod Kingston is studying ways to make lithium-ion batteries safer. (photo by Christopher Gannon ISU) An Iowa State University researcher is using a special tool to test the limits of lithium-ion ...
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Researchers pioneer advances to make next-generation lithium batteries safer

Battery technology researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) recently published studies that address some of the ...
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Effort underway to make safer lithium-ion car batteries to help prevent fires

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (KGO) -- Santa Clara County Fire says it has not yet determined the cause of the battery fire that destroyed a Tesla Model S earlier this week in Los Gatos. In the meantime, an ...