Battery Technology

We've covered Verge extensively for years, as the Estonian brand has been hard at work developing a novel electric motorcycle that looks like nothing else out there. The company says it's shipped its first bike with a world-first solid-state battery.

Donut Lab recently released its first pack-level charging test results – its fourth battery test with Verge Motorcycles. Its 18-kWh battery pack maintained over 100 kW of charging power at a 5C pace for five minutes on the Verge TS Pro electric moto.

Sodium-ion batteries offer multiple advantages over their lithium-ion cousins. Energy storage, however, isn't one of them. That might be set to change thanks to a new method of creating the batteries involving water-rich cathodes.

That’s not a Range Rover you’re looking at, it's the Xpeng GX – the carmaker’s first full-size crossover, packing some serious tech inside. So while it may look like another Chinese copycat, it’s a classic case of offering more than meets the eye.

Rugged tech is a rapidly growing market, with outdoor users eager for everyday devices built to survive real-world punishment. Here, the new Oukitel RT10 Rugged Tablet delivers solid performance and supreme battery life – for less than $500.

Hyundai has been teasing the electric model Staria people mover since 2021 and has finally introduced the full production spec model. Debuting in Brussels, the 800-volt minivan will go on sale in Korea and Europe before mid-2026.

The IAA Mobility trade show in Munich was bound to throw some really unusual motos our way. But most wouldn't have put their money on the first Volkswagen vehicle to run on a solid-state lithium-metal battery to be a Ducati superbike.

It was only a matter of time until we got the first production EV with a semi-solid-state battery. Very few would have put their money on MG to accomplish that feat first. But here we are, and we are not too far away from the car’s official release!

The typical charging time for an ebike is measured in hours, but Morelle looks to slash that unit to minutes to create the world's fastest charging ebike. The new bike also looks to be as sleek and lightweight as it is convenient to charge.

You’ve got to have a trick or two up your sleeve if you intend to break into a crowded EV market. And Indian two-wheeler startup Oben Electric has done just that by pricing its first electric motorcycle to perfection and making it available on Amazon.

Until now, the robot workforce has had to either be plugged in all of the time, or spend some time cabled to the mains to top up its battery pack. UBTech has launched the Walker S2 humanoid, with dual batteries and the ability to hotswap on its own.

Harley-Davidson’s Homecoming festival saw LiveWire unveil two new concept motorcycles – a street-bike and a trail-bike. What might first come across as regular city mopeds can go as fast as 53 mph (85 km/h), with a range of about 100 miles (160 km).