Costs $1.4 billion

A US company is building a $1.4 billion gigaplant for a cheaper and more environmentally friendly alternative to lithium-ion batteries.

Short supply

The prices of Lithium batteries are set to rise because of a production shortage which could result in a general electronics price hike.

She's electric

Nissan Motors  is in talks with Panasonic and others over its controlling stake in a car battery manufacturing venture, sources said.

MnO₂-coated batteries can now last 400 years, 200,000 cycles

Doctoral research student Maya Le Thai was working in her laboratory with nanobatteries one day when she decided to try a new approach. She coated an entire gold nanowire with a manganese dioxide MnO₂ shell and covered the assembly with a "plexiglass-like" electrolyte gel, but the resulting outcome was completely unexpected.