Energy think tank Ember says utility-scale battery costs have fallen to $65/MWh outside China and the United States, enabling solar power to be delivered when needed. December 12, 2025 Uma Gupta From pv magazine India Battery costs have fallen sharply over the past two years. A steep drop in 2024 was followed by further declines in 2025, pushing storage within reach for dispatchable solar, according to Ember. The energy think tank’s analysis, based on October 2025 auctions in Italy, Saudi Arab...

If you’re going to make a pair of wireless earbuds in today’s day and age, you’d better have something to bring to the table. As I’ve said a million times now (maybe more times than there are pairs of wireless earbuds in the world), the wireless headphones and earbuds market is crowded. That makes a lot of pairs redundant, and it makes deciding which ones to buy a bit of a puzzle. Everyone’s priorities are a little different in the wireless earbuds world, but the core tenets typically...

The Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra is rumored to debut at the end of January 2026. It is expected to offer similar battery capacity as the S25 Ultra, but may support faster charging. A new listing on the 3C certification website has now confirmed the phone’s charging speed. A Samsung smartphone with the model number SM-S9480 has been listed on the China 3C certification website. The listing reveals that the device will support up to 60W fast charging. This is particularly interesting because Samsung...

According to Inlyte, the tested unit incorporates what it describes as the world’s largest sodium metal chloride battery cells and modules built to date, with each module capable of storing more than 300 kWh of energy. December 12, 2025 Marija Maisch...

The Federal Court has found that fashion retailer Fewstone, trading as City Beach, breached the Australian Consumer Law by selling a range of consumer novelty products that did not comply with mandatory button battery safety and information standards. The Court found that between June 2022 and October 2024 City Beach sold more than 60 product types containing button batteries that did not comply with the button battery safety and/or information standards. The products included toys, digital note...

gk(rz[g6i7z43k4wc7ap4tii_media_dl_1.png Company filings Article content (Bloomberg) — The Trump administration will reduce an up to $9.6 billion loan to Ford Motor Co. and South Korea’s SK Innovation Co. after the companies announced plans to break up a joint venture to produce electric vehicle batteries in the US.  THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Exclusive articles from Barbara Shecter, Joe O’Connor,...

5N+ Purity and On-Spec EBC Confirm Lac Knife’s Potential as a North American Source of Ultra-High-Performance Graphite Applications Ottawa, Ontario–(ACN Newswire – December 11, 2025) – Focus Graphite Inc. (TSXV: FMS) (OTCQB: FCSMF) (FSE: FKC0) (“Focus” or the “Company“) a Canadian developer of high-grade flake graphite deposits and innovator of next-generation battery technology, is pleased to announce that follow-on purification and elemental anal...

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