Enlarge (credit: Wikimedia Commons) Most of the disposable batteries you’ll come across are technically termed alkaline batteries. They work at high pH and typically use zinc as the charge carrier. Zinc is great because it’s very cheap, can be used to make one of the two electrodes, and, in the right context, allows the use […]
Expand (charge: Viaframe / / Getty Images) Elon Musk made Plenty of promises during Tesla’s Battery Day past September. Shortly, he explained, the business could have an automobile which runs on batteries using pure silicon anodes to enhance their performance along with decreased cobalt from the cathodes to reduce their price. Its battery pack is going […]