While lithium-ion (Li-Ion) batteries offer many advantages for portable consumer electronics, they require extremely accurate charging current and output voltages to optimize battery life and ...

However, design engineers face increased challenges to charge these batteries fast, accurately, and�most important�safely as battery capacities increase, but charge solutions need to occupy the ...

There are an awful lot of Li-ion charging chips out there, and you would have thought there was one for every eventuality. But it turns out there isn’t. There is a sort of no-designer’s-land between 6 ...

There are high hopes for the next generation of high energy-density lithium metal batteries, but before they can be used in our vehicles, there are crucial problems to solve. An international research ...

A startup in California, with the rather odd name of Qnovo, says it has developed a new way of rapidly recharging conventional lithium-ion batteries. With Qnovo's technology, you can get six hours of ...

The increasing dominance of lithium cells in the market place leave our trusty NiMH cells in a rough spot. Sure, you can ...

ZDNET's key takeaways Unplug at 100%, and keep the battery between 20% and 80%.Avoid draining to 0%; store unused tablets at ...

Although [pinomelean’s] Lithium-ion battery guide sounds like the topic is a bit specific, you’ll find a number of rechargeable battery basics discussed at length. Don’t know what a C-rate is? Pfffft.