Tag: battery
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Car battery firm Britishvolt goes flat with the loss of nearly 300 jobs | City & Business | Finance
[ad_1] The firm, which was planning to build a £3.8billion gigafactory near Blyth, in Northumberland, had been racing to secure additional rescue funding or a sale of the business. EY, who were appointed joint administrators, described the collapse as “disappointing”, and said all impacted staff were being offered support. Dan Hurd, a joint administrator and…
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How to boost your iPhone’s battery charge
[ad_1] A few handy tricks will help you extend your iPhone’s battery charge and see how much of its charge is remaining. Image: Rann Vijay/Pexels Must-read Apple coverage How often does the charge on your iPhone run low just when you need it the most? Battery life is always an issue on mobile phones. Fortunately,…
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Tesla Megapack battery fire is ‘fully controlled,’ shelter-in-place advisory lifted
[ad_1] Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A Tesla Megapack battery caught fire this morning at the local utility company PG&E’s Elkhorn Battery Storage facility in Monterey County, California, as reported by local news stations KSBW Action News 8 and KRON4. The fire started at around 1:30AM this morning, according to PG&E’s operations comm…
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DeWalt USB-C Charging Kit review: your power tool battery can charge gadgets now
[ad_1] Your leaf blower battery should be able to charge a laptop. Your drill battery should charge your phone. And while we’re at it, why shouldn’t our ever-more powerful USB-C power adapters be able to charge those power tool batteries as well? Fundamentally, there’s not much difference between a battery bank you buy from Anker…
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Panasonic selects Kansas for vehicle battery mega-factory
[ad_1] FILE – People walk by the Panasonic booth during CES International, on Jan. 9, 2018, in Las Vegas. Japan’s Panasonic Corp. selected Kansas as the location for a multibillion-dollar mega-factory to produce electric vehicle batteries for Tesla and other carmakers, Gov. Laura Kelly announced Wednesday, July 13, 2022. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)…
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How to extend your Pixel phone battery life with this one trick
[ad_1] If you find your Pixel phone battery draining prematurely, Jack Wallen has a trick that might just help. Image: Google The Pixel line of phones has, for the most part, been an outstanding take on Android. There was the one outlier, the Pixel 4, where the battery life was abysmal. Google course-corrected and released…
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The Hummer EV’s battery weighs more than a Honda Civic
[ad_1] We always knew that when General Motors decided to resurrect the Hummer brand as an electric truck, we were still going to get something excessively massive, as per its namesake. But I don’t think we were adequately prepared for the amount of truck bloat encapsulated in the Hummer EV. According to test data filed…