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  • Lincad signs contract with Marshall Aerospace for specialist sensor pod battery technology

    Lincad is pleased to announce that it has signed a new contract with Marshall Aerospace to develop its lithium-ion battery
    The post Lincad signs contract with Marshall Aerospace for specialist sensor pod battery technology appeared first on EDR Magazine. 

  • Wireless Surface Charger to Power Drone Swarms

    ​Rheinmetall Canada and Quaze are launching an innovative wireless charging solution for drones at DSEI 2023. The Drone Swarm Tactical OverWatch (DSTOW) module developed for Rheinmetall’s Mission Master UGV offers a unique solution enabling continuous, unattended and uninterrupted drone operations.
    The post Wireless Surface Charger to Power Drone Swarms first appeared on Defense Update:.
    The post Wireless Surface Charger to Power Drone Swarms appeared first on Defense Update:. 

  • New Tactical Batteries Could Improve Mission Readiness

    ​ARLINGTON, Virginia — Xentris Wireless recently introduced a tactical universal battery series that allows warfighters to have one type of battery that can power a variety of handheld devices. 

  • The Download: promising new batteries, and how to regulate AI

    ​This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Zinc batteries that offer an alternative to lithium just got a big boost The news: One of the leading companies offering alternatives to lithium batteries for the grid has just received a nearly… 

  • How water could make safer batteries

    ​This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. I’d be willing to bet that you probably haven’t spent much time thinking about the liquid that sloshes around inside batteries.  But this liquid—called the electrolyte—is one of their key ingredients, and… 

  • Zinc batteries that offer an alternative to lithium just got a big boost

    ​One of the leading companies offering alternatives to lithium batteries for the grid just got a nearly $400 million loan from the US Department of Energy.   Eos Energy makes zinc-halide batteries, which the firm hopes could one day be used to store renewable energy at a lower cost than is possible with existing lithium-ion batteries.… 

  • Defense Innovation Unit, Canoo Expand Partnership for Electric Vehicle Battery Program

    ​The Defense Innovation Unit and Canoo have signed an agreement to expand partnership in the Jumpstart for Advanced Battery Standardization.
    The post Defense Innovation Unit, Canoo Expand Partnership for Electric Vehicle Battery Program appeared first on The Defense Post. 

  • Army to Field Roving Battery Packs in Bid to Trim Fossil-Fuel Use

    ​Green initiatives include testing wheeled, multi-ton battery packs and building energy microgrids at Army installations world-wide by 2035. 

  • The Download: future space food, and EV battery swapping

    ​This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Future space food could be made from astronaut breath The future of space food could be as simple—and weird—as a protein shake made with astronaut breath or a burger made from fungus. For… 

  • How 5-minute battery swaps could get more EVs on the road

    ​Charging has emerged as the primary way people keep their EV batteries full of juice while on the go, but some companies have an alternative in mind that they think could be even quicker than the fastest chargers today: battery swapping. Today, a San Francisco–based startup called Ample demonstrated its new battery-swap system, which it…