battery

Xiaomi launches the Redmi Note 17 5G featuring a 7700mAh Silicon-Carbon battery with over two-day battery life and 45W turbo charging. It becomes the first in their classic lineup to earn TÜV SÜD 5-star Battery Performance Certification.

Xiaomi's new Redmi Note 17 Pro Max features a massive 9,210mAh silicon-carbon battery, offering up to three days of battery life in a compact design. It is launching globally with fast charging and robust durability features.

The paper proposes a physics-informed deep learning approach for lithium-ion battery state-of-health estimation using incomplete discharge curves, achieving high accuracy and enabling real-time degradation trend prognosis.

At AASF 2026, Cui Yi presented his battery energy density roadmap, with targets rising from 250 Wh/kg to 1000 Wh/kg, calling it his 'retirement plan.' Progress is currently past halfway.

The Verge reviews Nitecore's NB10000 Gen 4 power bank, praising it as the lightest and most compact 10,000mAh unit yet, thanks to silicon-carbon anode technology, while noting its premium price.

This tweet discusses a paradox: although the costs of solar and lithium batteries have dropped significantly, the cost of delivering electricity to users has risen instead. The tweet cites a16z's latest long-form article, analyzing the reasons behind rising grid costs.

Elon Musk announces that Tesla Megapack 3 has started production at the new Megafactory in Brookshire, Texas, which reached operation in just 16 months with a 50 GWh/year capacity.

SwitchBot announces the Battery Circulator Fan 2 Pro with Matter support, 70-hour battery life, and high wind speed for $119.99.

Introduces a deep learning surrogate pipeline based on Swin3D Transformer to predict spatiotemporal discharge dynamics in lithium-ion batteries, significantly reducing computational cost while improving accuracy over point cloud baselines.

Samsung announces Galaxy Watch 9 and Ultra 2 with significantly larger batteries, brighter displays, and a switch to Qualcomm's Snapdragon Wear Elite chip, focusing on battery life and health features.

Proposes RoSIP-Batt, a Transformer-based model for joint State of Health and Remaining Useful Life prediction of lithium-ion batteries, using dynamic loss balancing and rotary position embeddings, achieving state-of-the-art results on multiple datasets.

This paper presents BattVAE-GP, a hybrid physics-probabilistic framework that combines a Variational Autoencoder with a sparse multitask Gaussian Process to generate and interpolate long-horizon battery degradation trajectories with uncertainty estimates, enabling efficient surrogate modeling for lithium-ion battery health prediction.

Wired tests and reviews nine portable power stations for 2026, highlighting Bluetti's sodium-ion battery model for cold weather and Jackery's expandable Explorer 2000 Plus as top contenders.

Juicy is a Mac app that provides battery alerts, health insights, and charge limit management.

This paper introduces IonSense-QKG, a metadata framework that enriches public lithium-ion battery datasets with quantum-readiness fields and a weighted Quantum Readiness Score to rank datasets for near-term hybrid quantum-classical machine learning.

A battery breakthrough from the past decade has now reached full commercial availability, marking a significant milestone in energy storage technology.

Xiaomi announces the Watch S5 46mm, featuring premium design, pro-level sports tracking, and long battery life.

Firmware code in recent Starlink update suggests SpaceX is preparing a version of its Starlink Mini satellite dish with an integrated battery, enabling untethered portable internet for users.

Xiaomi announces its largest global battery at 7000mAh using silicon carbon technology, offering up to 9.5 hours of continuous video recording, for the upcoming Xiaomi 17T Series.

A user shares a technician's advice that two default iPhone settings cause overheating and shorten battery lifespan, urging others to change them.