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Pacific Northwest Battery Collaborative: Portland Meetup

Event Details: What is the PNW Battery Collaborative?: A community of battery entrepreneurs, scientists, and enthusiasts united to make the… Read More

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[Virtual Event] PNW Battery Collaborative: Second-Life Battery Market & EV Residual Values

Event Details: What is this event?: Join the Pacific Northwest (PNW) Battery Collaborative for its first event beyond the PNW… Read More

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Pacific Northwest Battery Collaborative Meetup: Stationary Storage

This edition of the PNW Battery Collaborative meetups will be focused on stationary storage. We’ll first hear from Rick (Eric)… Read More

Microsoft and PNNL make a better battery, and show AI’s potential to supercharge science

Researchers at Microsoft and the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) say they’ve discovered a way to reduce… Read More

WiBotic raises $5.7M to boost wireless systems for charging up robots and drones

Seattle-based Wibotic says it’s secured $5.7 million in fresh investment to ramp up development of its wireless charging and power… Read More

Air-activated smartphone charger: Seattle startup raises cash for peel-off portable battery

As we’ve become more and more dependent on smartphones, keeping our devices charged up has become increasingly important. “Low-battery anxiety”… Read More

Backed by Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, Breakthrough Energy Ventures places first bets on power storage

Eighteen months after its founding, the $1 billion Breakthrough Energy Ventures fund’s first investments have been revealed, and they both… Read More

Australia powers up Tesla’s monster battery, with bigger boosts to come

South Australia’s state government turned on the switch for the world’s biggest lithium-ion battery today, marking a signal achievement for… Read More

Elon Musk touts Tesla’s plan to build the world’s biggest battery in just 100 days

One hundred megawatts. That’s how much electrical power the world’s biggest lithium-ion battery system will store when Tesla builds it… Read More

Apple offers some iPhone 5 users battery replacements

iPhone 5 users who suddenly saw their battery life drop off a cliff have good news: Apple is offering a… Read More

Portland’s Bettery partners with Safeway to install rechargeable battery swap kiosks

The next time you go shopping at Safeway, there very well could be a Coinstar-like kiosk that lets you buy… Read More

15 hours on a single charge? New MacBook Air’s battery life gets rave reviews

While it certainly wasn’t the biggest story out of WWDC, Apple’s new MacBook Air notebooks are garnering rave reviews. On… Read More

Back in the air: FAA approves 787 battery design changes

After three months of grounding, Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner is set to fly again. The Federal Aviation Administration today approved Boeing’s… Read More

Bettery debuts rechargeable battery swap stations at Whole Foods Markets

Every year, 2.5 billion batteries are thrown away in the U.S. and a Portland-based company may have a better solution… Read More

This mobile hand-crank phone charger just obliterated its Kickstarter goal

Our smartphones are, for the most part, really nice. They help us find information quickly and stay connected around-the-clock. The… Read More