The days of running around desperately searching for an outlet to plug your phone into are mostly over. The reality is that batteries, of all shapes and sizes, have never been more powerful, available ...

It can be confusing figuring out the difference between energy efficiency and renewable energy. In some instances, like solar energy, they appear to be on the surface the same. They are not. Energy ...

Hybrids (HEVs), Plugin-Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs), and Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) all use a high-voltage battery in addition to a low-voltage battery. While the traditional low-voltage car ...

For all the recent rhetoric about the impending global clean energy transition, make no mistake: the world still runs on fossil fuels. The energy mix may be changing, with COVID-19 pummeling the oil ...

Engineers at the University of California, Davis, have invented a device that can generate mechanical power at night by ...

Making a dc voltage from an ac source means you will have to rectify the ac voltage to get a dc bus. One difference compared to a dc-dc converter is that you can use a linear power supply with an ac ...