WASHINGTON — A short circuit likely caused by a manufacturing defect in a Boeing 787 airliner battery caused a fire last year that grounded the planes for more than three months, federal accident ...

The batteries in both electric vehicles and common household tools can cause fires if they end up in floodwaters after a ...

So, how do we rescue a dead battery? If you have a friend nearby with a working car and a charged battery, we can use jumper ...

Researchers at the University of Queensland’s Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) have ...

WASHINGTON -- The manufacture of lithium-ion batteries allowed contaminants and other defects in batteries aboard Boeing 787 Dreamliner planes, including one battery that erupted in smoke and fire in ...

Panasonic is working on high-density Li-ion battery cells that could enable Tesla EVs to drive up to 450 miles on a charge if ...

How lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries behave under short-circuit conditions can now be examined using a new approach to help improve reliability and safety. How lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries behave ...

Finland-based power electronics specialist Yaskawa Environmental Energy/The Switch is partnering up with maritime energy storage system (ESS) manufacturer Corvus Energy to continue the development of ...

The National Transportation Safety Board believes an internal short circuit within a single cell inside a lithium-ion battery led to a fire aboard a Boeing 787, shedding new light on the battery ...

Because stationary batteries and 48VDC power systems serve as lifelines for telecommunication networks, the reliability of these systems is of the utmost importance. Many system designers rely on ...