Researchers are going back to Thomas Edison's old nickel-iron battery design more than 100 years later to make a new, high-performance way to store energy. A group from the University of California, ...

The battery won't power cars as the famous inventor intended, but it's still got a lot of potential. Reading time 3 minutes Great minds often think ahead of their time. This was certainly true for ...

A team co-led by UCLA has revived an Edison-style nickel-iron battery that charges in seconds and survives 12,000 cycles, turning a century‑old curiosity into a serious option for long‑term energy ...

Through the looking glass: A century after Thomas Edison's early experiments with nickel-iron batteries, researchers at UCLA and their international collaborators have revived the concept using modern ...

But one possible partial solution to this energy shortfall could be found in a theory Thomas Edison first floated at the turn of the 20th century. A coalition of researchers from several countries, ...

Edison’s original design took an extremely long time to charge, which ultimately limited its use. But the modern version, created by a group of scientists that includes researchers from the University ...

Scientists have successfully resurrected and supercharged a forgotten battery design from Thomas Edison, turning a 120-year-old concept into a modern pack capable of charging in mere seconds and with ...

An international research collaboration co-led by UCLA has developed a nickel-iron battery, reviving a chemistry favored by Thomas Edison. In the study, the team grew extremely tiny clusters of metal ...

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This was certainly true for Thomas Edison, who envisioned the potential of electric vehicles long before they became trendy. But in Edison’s lifetime, rapid technological advances in gas-powered cars ...