For 45 years, nickel-cadmium (NiCd; also Ni-Cad™, see Editor's Note below) batteries have plagued me. That's because I like to spend my Sunday afternoons relaxing with radio-controlled aircraft, such ...

Batteries and energy cells lose their capacity as they age. If a cell or battery’s capacity is too low, your equipment may also soon stop working. You can use the circuit in Figure 1 to measure a ...

What type of equipment is best to use for low-voltage test of battery cells? What is an electronic load, and how does it work? How to overcome a major limitation with the low-voltage-discharge test.

At over 7km, the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps is the longest on the Formula 1 calendar and with that comes its challenges.

To calculate the discharge rates of EV batteries, we first need to understand how lithium-ion batteries work and how they are used. Nearly all electric vehicles on the market today feature a ...

The National Transportation Safety Board believes an internal short circuit within a single cell inside a lithium-ion battery led to a fire aboard a Boeing 787, shedding new light on the battery ...

[Nick] was tasked with building a battery capacity tester by one of his teachers in order to test some aftermarket batteries that were purchased for their Vex robotics lab. The batteries were cheaper ...