battery

Hey I have been hanging for the new Pixel 4. BUT I cannot buy a phone at the end of 2019, with a battery size of 2700 mha? What is going on? Is this a ploy by Google to make you buy the bigger more expensive phone with a bigger battery? My 2 year old Samsung has a bigger battery, and it only...

It’s not a bug; it’s a feature Apple wants. Unless an Apple Genius or an Apple Authorized Service Provider authenticates a battery to the phone, that phone will never show its battery health and always report a vague, ominous problem. If you replace the battery in the newest iPhones, a message...

Hi, I bought a replacement battery from here: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/97Wh-New...e=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649 and it seems to be genuine. I believe it is because BatteryCare application reports the same tech details as the original one I had. Now, the problem is that the...

Hello, I have a Galaxy s6 since like 2015. Within 2yrs, the battery started to quickly deteriorate. I began having to recharge constantly to the point that I was using powerbank just to use the phone. It has been my habit for many years to read an ebook while listening to music, but every...

A Kiwibot food delivery robot has self-destructed on the UC Berkeley campus as onlookers expressed grief for the meal that could have been (Warning language in the video). Sasha Latsenia, head of product at Kiwi explained that the robot was accidentally outfitted with a defective battery during...

The Google Pixel 3 XL has shown up on the streets of Hong Kong. Features annotated in the Facebook video include: 6.3" OLED screen, Active Edge, Google Assistant, USB Type-C, wireless charging, Android 9.0, USB Type-C Pixel Buds, 3.5mm USB A, Snapdragon 845, 4GB ram, 64 or 128GB of storage, and...

Lithium ion batteries have a significant problem: deposits of Lithium required to manufacture them are rare, and mostly found in South America. However, researchers think replacing Lithium with Sodium could make battery production more sustainable. Researchers have already mitigated sodium's...

Darren Palmer, Ford Team Edison Global Product Development Director, has written a blog post about the challenges of developing "16 new electric vehicle models within a global portfolio of 40 electrified vehicles through 2022." He discusses how his team has been given the freedom to "operate in...

Mercedes is showing off what is going to be powering its new electric cars; the EQC lithium-ion battery. Trevor Long over at EFTM got a firsthand look at the technology while it was being shown off in Sweden. While Tesla has committed to a system centered around the commonplace 18650 battery...

The eggheads at the University of Cambridge have discovered a new class of material that could help lithium batteries charge faster. The materials are known as niobium tungsten oxides and they could allow a battery to charge faster without the development of dangerous dendrites. However, before...

Physicists at the University of Missouri have developed a new honeycomb design that reduces energy dissipation in batteries. They have applied for a patent and have a functioning prototype. Also, this is apparently a real thing because they have set up a company to begin to commercialize the new...

Uber has their eyes set on the future with their Uber Elevate flying taxi service. They hope to begin deployment of flying taxis by 2023 and plan to transition them to autonomous capability sometime in the future. The taxi is going to be designed and built by others, but they are doing all of...

Scientists at RMIT University in Melbourne have developed a prototype battery that uses carbon instead of lithium. What makes this interesting is the battery is kind of like a hydrogen fuel cell and a chemical battery. The proton part comes from water splitting when it's charged and the...

9to5 Mac is reporting that wait time for battery replacement for the iPhone 6 and 6 plus are averaging 3-4.5 weeks, with the longest wait for any Apple store being 9-10 weeks. This comes weeks after Barclays had reported that there should be steady improvements for battery availability...

The Hill is reporting that Apple has sent a letter to Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John Thune, that states it is exploring the option of offering rebates to customers who bought iPhone batteries at full price. The company says that it is exploring the option after Thune pressed the tech...

A man in an electronics store in China caused the replacement battery for his iPhone to explode after biting it. It is believed that the man decided to bite on the battery in an attempt to test its authenticity or durability, possibly following the same logic as people testing if an item is made...

Electro.Aero is working to develop an electric plane that can be used to fly short hops to act as air-taxis in Australia. They recently completed their first test flight and it went off without a hitch. The plane features supercharging tech that allows it to charge quickly and because there's...

Apple has offered up an apology for the recent debacle of slowing down iPhone cpu's in older model phones. They just wanted to make your phone last as long as possible. Also, in addition to this mea culpa, they are going to offer a $29 battery change out for your iPhones (6 and later)...

Elon Musk just saved himself $50M by completing the largest lithium-ion battery in the world prior to his 1 December deadline. This sucker can hold enough power to supply 8,000 homes for 24 hours. If he could get Tesla's car building act together then maybe he could get Model 3's out into the...

I got to see just how long the battery would hold out on the Pixel 2 XL this weekend. This was under what I would call my "normal" usage profile. It is included a lot of HardForum surfing, weather radar checking, navigation, phone calls, tons of texting, and at least four hours of streaming to...

One of Samsung's battery factories in China just caught fire. It is confirmed that it is one of the factories that made batteries for the Note 7. Samsung says that it is a small fire but looking at the images, it seems larger. At least it was related to the waste management side of the...