Global electric car sales rose 35% in 2023, with the U.S. leading the charge at 60% growth, reflecting increasing demand for ...

Direct current (DC) fast chargers line the highways, commercial areas and parking lots, and are ready to zap your electric vehicle (EV) with a burst of rapid charging power. They've been hailed as the ...

The harnessing of electricity has played a pivotal role in human history and has exponentially expedited our growth as a species. Since becoming a household commodity in the late 19th century, ...

It’s commonplace to hear about best practices for ensuring that your EV’s battery remains in top condition for the longest period of time. Chief among those is to only charge your electric vehicle to ...

The battery as we know it today was an invention of Italian chemist and physicist Alessandro Volta. He witnessed electricity splitting water into its constituent elements of oxygen and hydrogen and ...

The 19th century battle between Nikolai Tesla’s alternating current (AC) and Thomas Edison’s direct current (DC) technologies had an undisputed winner. The vast majority of the world’s transmission ...

ORNL researchers are designing and increasing the capacity of a new type of semiconductor-based circuit breaker, which can operate faster as compared to mechanical switches.

Brace yourselves for a monumental leap into the future of energy distribution! The DC-POWER project, funded by the European Union, has officially kick-started in January 2024. Coordinated by CEA (INES ...

Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have developed a new circuit breaker that operates hundreds of times faster than traditional models, clearing a path for a safer and more efficient ...