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Welcome to the Home Page of Energy Storage Publishing Ltd (ESPL). Batteries and Energy Storage Technology (BEST) magazine is the world's leading publication on battery manufacture and design and the emerging field of large scale electrical energy storage. If you make or use rechargeable battery systems for automotive, telecom, standby or a host of other applications, BEST magazine is a must-read for you. If you are a supplier to this market, it is the place to promote your products and services. Launched in 2003, BEST magazine covers developments in all battery chemistries from lead-acid to lithium-ion. Its editorial team reports from all the major technical conferences and exhibitions in this field and is recognised as the BEST source for keeping up with major industry developments. Chinese BEST, its sister publication, was launched in 2010 to make the editorial excellence of BEST available in Mandarin to the burgeoning Chinese battery industry. It is fast becoming a must read technical journal in China. If you are looking for new machinery, materials or technology to make batteries, you'll read about it in our pages first. We also send out, in English and Mandarin, a weekly news briefing that is a roundup of the most important news stories relating to the battery industry.

Publisher's Blog

Mars is a great market for pure EVs

All power to Elon Musk and SpaceX. What an incredible achievement to build the world’s most powerful rocket, make much of it reusable and have a sufficient sense of humour to put one of your other company’s product— a tesla electric car, atop of it all and send it toward Mars! Tesla is losing a fortune, so what the hell?

A flaming embarrassment

Looking for ways to make lithium-ion batteries safer? Well, don’t go to a battery safety conference, because you won’t learn much! At least I didn’t when I went to Cambridge EnerTech’s battery safety event last week in Arlington.

Upcoming Events

The Battery Show Europe Tuesday, 15 May, 2018 to Thursday, 17 May, 2018
The 13th China International Battery Fair (CIBF 2018) Tuesday, 22 May, 2018 to Thursday, 24 May, 2018
The International Flow Battery Forum 2018 Tuesday, 10 July, 2018 to Thursday, 12 July, 2018
16th European Lead Battery Conference and Exhibition Tuesday, 4 September, 2018 to Friday, 7 September, 2018

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Latest Battery Industry News

'Lebanon eyes solar projects' with BESS

Lebanon is reportedly issued a call for developers to build a series of battery energy storage systems in the country as part of a solar power project.

FDG ‘starts work’ on first phase of China batteries and EV project

Hong Kong-listed FDG Electric Vehicles has reportedly started the first-phase of construction of its EVs and batteries production facilities in Jianyang, in China’s Sichuan Province, according to the state Xinhua News Agency.

Tech firm claims solid-state fast-charge breakthrough

Belgian nanoelectronics and digital tech firm Imec says it has made “an innovative type of solid-state lithium-ion battery” that is set to be a “contender” to power future fast-charging, long-haul vehicles.