It’s easy to get caught up in the big announcements from international tech giants, focusing on the moonshot projects and billion-dollar investments in sustainability. We talk about vast solar farms, orbital data collection, and next-generation battery breakthroughs as the key to a greener future. However, the real laboratory for practical, adoptable, and effective green technology often lies much closer to home, right within our local communities. This is exactly why an event like the Sustain...

The Wiko X70 is a new Android smartphone with satellite connectivity (Image source: Huawei) The Wiko X70 is a new Android smartphone that can handle some dust and water exposure, and also survive drops from certain heights. The new Huawei handset further supports satellite connections and lets users send messages even without a cellular signal. The Wiko X70 is a new smartphone that’s now available in China and supports messaging via a BeiDou satellite connection, which means the handset is not...

Grid-scale solar generation increased 16% year-on-year during Q3 2025, establishing a new record for any third quarter period. The 238MW net generation increase resulted from 289MW of new capacity additions, 24MW from commissioning facilities, and 18MW from improvements to the existing fleet. Image: AEMO. Economic offloading reduced potential output by 90MW while curtailment accounted for 4MW of lost generation, demonstrating the growing need for storage solutions to capture excess solar product...

Acquiring an electric car raises concerns about the battery’s range, size, and longevity. Many worry that the expensive battery will become obsolete, questioning whether it will fail in five years or be costly to replace. However, a new study from Sweden indicates that these fears may be exaggerated. Swedish used car broker Kvdbil analyzed 1,300 used electric cars and plug-in hybrids and found that eight out of ten still had over 90 percent of their original battery capacity. This indicates th...

Lithium-ion batteries’ ability to deliver a lot of power from a small package have made them the go-to for makers and manufacturers alike. It’s not unusual now to find, say, microcontroller boards with integrated Li-ion chargers. Lithium-ion is so popular, in fact, that it’s easy to forget that other battery technologies exist, even when they’re a better fit. These worthy alternatives include removable rechargeable nickel–metal hydride batteries. While NiMH cells can’t be recharged a...

Surge Battery Metals Inc.  reported the successful completion of its 2025 core drilling program at the 100%-owned Nevada North Lithium Project (NNLP), Nevada. The nine-hole program, totaling 4,634.5 feet (1,412.6 metres), successfully achieved all its primary objectives: collecting critical data for the company’s planned upgrade to the mineral resource (from Inferred to Indicated and Measured); gathering essential geotechnical and hydrogeological data; and securing bulk samples for metallurg...