Electric vehicles, in the modern day, offer different chemical battery compositions, each with its abilities and limitations. The well-known chemistries include Lithium-ion, Lithium-ion Phosphate ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. If you’ve looked in your utility drawer lately, you may have noticed the various shapes, sizes and types of batteries that power your ...

To understand why batteries come in many different sizes and shapes – and serve many purposes – look to the past, at how batteries originated and how they have developed over the years.

Retired battery types from Makita include the 36V, 14.4V, and 7.2V lithium-ion, and a few nickel–metal hydride and nickel–cadmium batteries. The G-Series is a different story.

The first batteries were made in the 1800s and have changed a lot since then. The reason batteries come in so many types has as much to do with history as innovation.

But that overlooks two key differences in the way batteries are used in different types of electrified vehicles. First is the flow of electrical power in and out of the battery relative to its size.

While coin batteries can be used in many different electronic devices, not every device uses the same type of coin battery, and the different types are not interchangeable.

Here's a look at the different types of batteries Harley-Davidson uses for its motorcycles, and how long each type is expected to last.

With the heavy demand for lithium-based batteries, Dominion Energy wants to test two different types of batteries — one of which is based on rust.