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Study warns battery rickshaws dominate Dhaka’s streets amid weak oversight
18 Jan 2026 18:09 GMT
… noting that safer, regulated technology could reduce this burden … puller Mohammad Jahangir said battery rickshaws reduce physical suffering … 1,000 cycles, while lithium batteries offer 3,000–5 … Speakers agreed that banning battery rickshaws is unrealistic, but …
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Sodium-sulphur battery turns sulfur into electron donor Technology News | January 18, 2026 A group of researchers has outlined a room-temperature approach to a high-voltage sodium-sulphur battery that flips the usual “sulphur stores…
18 Jan 2026 20:59 GMT
A group of researchers has outlined a room-temperature approach to a high-voltage sodium-sulphur battery that flips the usual “sulphur stores ions” narrative on its head. Instead of treating sulphur mainly as a host for sodium, the proposed cathode …
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Railways speeds up shift towards engines run on battery, green fuel
18 Jan 2026 20:10 GMT
… up adoption of battery and alternative fuel-powered … remains the dominant strategy, battery-powered traction solutions are … powered by a lithium ferro phosphate (LFP) battery. On Friday, … run on lithium-ion and other on-board battery technologies started …
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How Low-Quality Chargers Harm Smartphone Battery and Performance
18 Jan 2026 14:06 GMT
… fast-paced world of mobile technology, where smartphones serve as lifelines … increasingly scrutinized in the tech sector. Lithium-ion batteries degrade naturally over time … cycles with faulty chargers.
Emerging Technologies and Future Safeguards
As the …
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AfDB predicts rich lithium pickings for Zimbabwe
18 Jan 2026 12:10 GMT
… strong demand for power-storage technologies against an outlook of constrained … TA&A Ultra Clean Technology Co. Ltd.
Sinomine operates Bikita … a key input for rechargeable batteries.
Lithium sulphate is an intermediate chemical …
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Smartphones are suddenly getting longer battery life. Here’s why
18 Jan 2026 08:14 GMT
… emerging advancement in battery technology.
Most phones use traditional lithium-ion cells to … up.
Fast charging tech is thought to degrade battery capacity faster, but … can bring this evidently better battery tech to phones of all prices …
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UAE, BEEAH, LOHUM to form JV for first EV battery recycling facility
18 Jan 2026 06:15 GMT
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will have the technology to recycle and repurpose EV batteries, as well … the remaining useful life of
lithium-ion batteries before extracting critical materials …
NEETM technology, the facility will then recover valuable materials including
lithium, cobalt …
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Tougher Solid Electrolyte Advances Long-Sought Lithium Metal Batteries
18 Jan 2026 02:15 GMT
… charges considerably faster than the lithium-ion batteries commercially available today. For … for next-generation energy storage technologies,” said Xin Xu, who led … alleviate supply-chain constraints on lithium-based batteries.
The metal used does …
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CO2 + H2O = cleaner recycling of dead lithium batteries?
17 Jan 2026 04:41 GMT
… found a way to
recycle lithium batteries using only carbon dioxide and … Technology said they used a “three-in-one” strategy to improve lithium … catalysts, supporting sustainable energy conversion technologies,” the team said in a …
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2026's Breakthrough Technologies? MIT Technology Review Chooses Sodium-ion Batteries, Commercial Space Stations
17 Jan 2026 23:58 GMT
… guesses" on emerging technologies that will define the … sodium-ion batteries, "a cheaper, safer alternative to lithium." … ion batteries.] The most significant impact of sodium-Âion technology may … than that of high-end lithium-ion ones, but it …