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Here’s 13 rare battery startups working on next-generation manufacturing, chemistry and printing technologies. These battery companies could create innovation that could revolutionize electric cars, the power grid and how we charge up our gadgets and cell phones. Read more »

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If there is one thing to know about the pace of progress for battery innovation, it’s this: There is no Moore’s law for batteries. The rapid progress that has been made over the past decade in silicon and computing makes the pace of innovation in batteries, ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »

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Seeo Promises a Safer Lithium Battery With Higher Energy Density

Seeo raised $15 million earlier this year, and we know how it’s spending some of that money. The startup has moved into a new home and installed a pilot production line that produces 4 megawatt hours of cells per year. Read more »

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Lithium-ion battery developer Sakti3 and General Motors announced the latest step in their ongoing dance today, and it’s a big one for the 3-year-old startup: GM plans to invest $3.2 million in Sakti3 through its new venture capital arm, GM Ventures. Read more »

Rev your engines, auto startups — there’s a new VC in town. General Motors announced this morning that it has created a new subsidiary to identify, develop and invest in innovative technologies in the transportation sector. Read more »

Silentale is a service that works to unify your address books, and gives you one place to archive your messages. It’s similar to Threadsy, which aims to bring together your email and social network inboxes in one place, although you can’t compose messages directly in Silentale. Read more »

Sakti3, a Khosla-backed battery startup spun out of the University of Michigan, has filled its coffers with $7 million — more than doubling its total fundraising to date. Read more »

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Less than a year after startup A123Systems lost a battle for what could be one of the biggest plug-in vehicle battery supply deals in the country — General Motors’ Chevy Volt — the Massachusetts-based company has snagged a $249 million grant from the Department of Energy […] Read more »

Tomorrow, tomorrow: The stimulus grants for advanced battery manufacturing that were supposed to be announced by the end of last week are reportedly now set to come out on Wednesday, auto industry insiders tell the Detroit News. Vice President Biden is slated to announce the first […] Read more »

With billions of dollars in government funds coming down the pipeline for advanced batteries courtesy of the stimulus package, and the auto industry gearing up to make its first real go at marketing plug-in vehicles for the masses, the race to build lithium-ion batteries for vehicles […] Read more »

The new iPhone 3GS has hit the big time and the Palm Pre continues to rock the smartphone world. These stories and others were covered, here are the top stories in case you missed them: Competition is Bad in the Tech World What I Don’t Like […] Read more »

It’s been a long time coming: Toyota began working more than three years ago on lithium-ion batteries as an alternative to the NiMH batteries in the Prius, which can be more expensive, but store more energy with less weight. Today the company detailed plans to lease […] Read more »

With all the attention on electric vehicles these days, laptop battery manufacturers are rushing to get in on the action. The latest is Massachusetts-based Boston-Power, which on Monday unveiled a new battery, called Swing, for electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles. The company hasn’t released any details […] Read more »

When it comes to potential battery partners for plug-in vehicles, Volkswagen is now a triple-timer: The German automaker has a year-old partnership with Sanyo Electric to develop batteries for plug-in vehicles, and a three-month-old arrangement with Toshiba for an upcoming electric concept — and as of […] Read more »

Updated with comments from GE: This month General Electric is powering through proposals for cleaner technologies for heavy-haul locomotives like, well, a freight train. This morning the company is unveiling a new locomotive model that it says will produce fewer emissions and offer better fuel efficiency […] Read more »

As the deadline for funding requests under a new federal program for plug-in vehicle battery manufacturing draws near, companies large and small are jostling to get a piece of the $2 billion in Department of Energy grants allocated as part of the stimulus package. Following announcements […] Read more »

When General Motors decided on a supplier for the lithium ion cells in the battery packs for its upcoming Chevy Volt, frontman Bob Lutz explained that the risks involved with working with a startup helped tip the balance in favor of South Korea-based LG Chem. Referring to […] Read more »

Sakti3 to Team Up with GM on Battery Tech: Khosla Ventures-backed startup Sakti3 is collaborating with engineers from General Motors to design new materials for vehicle batteries. GM is not providing funding. — Michigan Business Review Think in the Clear: Norway’s Think Global has secured for […] Read more »

John Doerr, the prominent cleantech venture capitalist for Kleiner Perkins, gave his standard earnest speech before a Senate Committee hearing on how greentech investing can spur the economy on Wednesday morning. As per usual, he first chided the U.S. for not doing enough to cut carbon […] Read more »

We’ve heard very little about the early-stage vehicle battery startup Sakti3, only that the company had been backed by Vinod Khosa’s firm Khosla Ventures. The Detroit Free Press has an interesting article this week that reveals a few significant details about the tiny Ann Arbor, Mich.-based […] Read more »

We just checked in on Khosla Ventures’ portfolio on its web site and we noticed four startups we haven’t looked into before that could deliver some interesting innovation to the electric car space: Sakti3, Firefly Energy, Ramu and Tula. As Khosla’s more than a dozen biofuel […] Read more »

The corporate career ladder allows you go up one step at a time. From trainee to team leader, then moving up to regional manager then vice-president – tugging along pay raises and increased benefits as you go up. Unfortunately, a web working freelancer’s career path isn’t as conveniently laid out. How do you know you’re moving up the ladder without measuring promotions, raises, and increased employee benefits? What, exactly, does a freelancer’s career ladder look like and which way is up? Read more »

Diesel eBooks has long been supporting ebooks in Adobe, Microsoft Reader and Palm/eReader formats and tomorrow they will announce the addition of Mobipocket format ebooks to their inventory.  The addition of Mobipocket format will bring their current inventory to over 200,000 books which is pretty phenomenal.  […] Read more »

Digital video is a nascent industry, but it’s rare to find someone betting against its future growth. So rare that when it happens, people tend to simply overlook it. When London-based research firm Screen Digest projected earlier this week that movie downloads in the United States […] Read more »

Clearly there’s an active Developer Community for the Apple platform. I love that my favorite apps are regularly updated – being constantly made better, feature-rich, and all that jazz. But the process of updating some of these apps can be somewhat of a drag at times. […] Read more »

Eric Zimmerman, CEO of Gamelab (creator of the million unit-selling Diner Dash and the upcoming titles Work and Out of Your Mind) shares his thoughts on the year that was, and the year to come: The big casual gaming news for 2006: “PopCap’s announcement of a […] Read more »

Wi-Fi Planet on NYC’s Wireless dreams, with a little plug for me. Telecom’s Gold, Copper AT&T dails into CableLabs, chatting VoIP it seems POPStar dials XTen Covad on VoIP regulation BT says IP IP Hooray Read more »