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iLikeBatteries
by ILikeBatteries
Batteries are everywhere. Let's understand them better. Join us each week as we discuss why we like batteries and learn more about the growing power of batteries around you each day.
Episodes
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267: Flying Ions!
Mike and Jeff talk about the arrival of Fall and Jeff's solar; the Heart Aerospace's electric plane takes flight; Let's unfurl some solar panels from a 20' container; DIY battery setup at secondlifestorage.com; Comparing EV charging costs with gasoline nationwide; Green Wave Picks and a…
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266: Just Run it in Reverse!
Jeff and Mike discuss Jeff's solar production surplus; a cool website for car comparison (carsized.com); robots increasingly involved in battery recycling; US Department of Energy continues to provide great content about batteries; NJ investigating first EV battery management law; Green Wave EV...
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265: Which Pack Leads the Pack?
Mike and Jeff discuss Jeff's August solar production; a brief discussion about storing some solar production in batteries; People in Hawaii are buying more solar and batteries; power outage strategies; AI boom and batteries in the US; Large EV battery reliability study results; Green Wave EV Picks!
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264: V2G4U
Jeff and Mike chat about Jeff's solar production; a follow-up on solar panel efficiency in th winter months; global solar production increases in 2026; the guys revisit the tech behind V2G (vehicle to grid); Green Wave EV picks of the week.
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263: A Glimpse into the Future
Mike and Jeff chat about Jeff's biggest solar production month; a fun bumper sticker; Staples now charging for alkaline battery recycling; DOE Recycling Prize Winners (Glimpse & Binit); Massachusetts' V2G Incentive Program; Green Wave Picks!
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262: An American Muscle EV?
Jeff and Mike get an update on Jeff's solar production; annual absoprtion cycles for lithium ion batteries and how it relates to RV-ing; more on data center power usage; Green Wave Picks of the week.
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261: Max, Mega, Mesh!
Mike and Jeff chat about Jeff's real world solar production; a Yahoo News report that's maxxing out solar panels and 484 Tesla Megapacks in Utah; US home battery installations hit record high; Exploration of the Pila Energy Mesh Home Battery; Mike and Jeff's GreenWave EV Pick's of the week!
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260: Woe, Woe, Woe your Battery down the River?
260: Jeff and Mike discuss Mike's additional EcoFlow Woe with his River; a reminder about charge cycles; Jeff did some looking into what adding batteries to his solar setup might look like; Green Wave EV Picks are back!
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259: Moonshot
Mike and Jeff discuss Jeff's solar production; Mike's recycling journey (bye bye to the Delta); Call2Recycle is re-branded; batteries in the New England energy mix; the Department of Energy's National Blueprint for Batteries; GM get's the call to make batteries for new moon rover!
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258: Lake Tahoe vs Data Centers
Jeff and Mike discuss the impact of Jeff's solar installation on his electric bill; Lake Tahoe residents are told they have a year to find a new source of electricity; Energy.gov has some great information about EVs and batteries; Emporia EV charger rebates; Better battery recycling in Vermont.
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257: The Day the Delta Died
Mike and Jeff discuss the demise of Mike's Delta; Jeff's Volvo XC 40 Recharge Adventure from New Hampshire to NYC and back; Solar production update from Jeff; Plug-In solar approved in Maine; DOE website with some helpful battery info-graphics.
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256: More Iron in Your Battery Diet on Earth Day
Jeff and Mike talk more in-depth about Jeff's solar installation; Happy Earth Day; Mike's chaining of his EcoFlow Delta and River; Mike's new battery powered mini chopper; Paris Climate Agreement Anniversary; European EV sales surge; Tesla's battery business woes; New England grid storage...
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255: Just Some Non-Sense
Mike and Jeff get into Jeff's solar production to date and muse about EV charging; a battery powered cruise ship; Emporia Vue 3 and other circuit monitoring solutions.
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254: iLikeSolar! Jeff's Panels are Up and Running!
Jeff and Mike discuss, finally, Jeff's solar installation being complete and up and running! They go through all the technical details! Also, Saudi Arabia trading oil for batteries!
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253: Even F1 Has a Hard Time Getting It Right
Mike and Jeff have an F1 correction and discuss: Aston Martin's continued battery woes; more chat about VRFBs (Vanadium Redox Flow Battery) and where they're being used as grid attached storage; spring power tools and battery implications.
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252: NOT Shaken NOR Stirred
Jeff and Mike discuss some issues with Aston Martin's new Formula 1 car; Mike's successful heart surgery prompts a discussion about batteries in the healthcare industry; the guys learn about Vanadium Redox Flow Battery and will dig into those into the future; Ultralife Corporation launches X5...
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251: R2 or 3PO?
Jeff still waiting on his solar install; California bridges the solar gap with batteries; New England's largest battery storage facility opens in Gorham, Maine; a new digital marketplace for batteries; Nissan's patent for an active EV battery pack; Exploring Rivian's R2; What's old is new, again.
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250: That's A LOT of Episodes...
Jeff and Mike celebrate their 250th episode by spending some time looking back at the origins of iLikeBatteries, having some good laughs, and looking forward to many more episodes!
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249: Three Qi's For 2026!
Mike and Jeff wish you a Happy New Year! They chat about the good news for global clean energy; a Chinese emissions report; Jeff is still waiting for his solar install date; Mike's new iPhone raised a question about Qi charging so the guys had to dive into Qi history; Apple Lightning cable…
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248: Increasing Levers of Performance with Jill Pestana
Part Two of our interview with Jill Pestana; Supply chain considerations; sodium ion batteries; simple definition of solid state batteries; Data Centers need batteries; Battery Safety is an important consideration; Batteries are really better; a clean energy future; BatteryCourses.com.
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247: Getting Super-Hyper-Local with Jill Pestana
Mike and Jeff host battery scientist and entrepreneur Jill Pestana for the first of a two-part interview. They touch on Jill's battery past, present, and future; battery chemistries; supply chain challenges; data centers; recycling; safety concerns; what about space?
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246: Capital G, Captial P, little A
Jeff and Mike discuss Jeff's solar journey update; future of battery electric ships; a discussion of structural batteries; BrightNight provides grid support; Holiday Power solutions; Green Wave EV picks.
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245: Has the venerable 18650 met its match?
Mike and Jeff discuss Amazon's Self-Driving robotaxi...the ZOOX; ZOOX uses Panasonic's 21700 cells, but so does the Lucid Gravity; Review of naming of cylindrical cells; Green Wave EV Picks! 2023 Genesis Electrified G80; 2023 Kia EV6 GT-Line; 2023 Ford Mustang Mach-e GT.
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244: You Spin Me Right Round...
Jeff and Mike discuss Jeff progress on the solar installation; Sunrun VPP sees huge jump in enrollment; EcoFlow's new Delta 3 1000 Air power station; Mike's battery powered washing machine; the guys share their Green Wave picks!
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243: It's a different kind of hybrid
Mike and Jeff discuss a battery powered oyster boat; solar panel parking lots in South Korea; new features and products from EcoFlow; Mike and Jeff's Green Wave Picks; Jeff's solar update.
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242: Hindsight is 2025
Jeff and Mike discuss a new job site generator from Prolectric and describe 3 phase electrical power; sounding like Toyota is going for solid state batteries in EVs; a quick discussion about EV range; Jeff and Mike pick their favorite, currently available EV at Green Wave EV in Hampton, NH.
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241: That's, like, 1 kilowatt per ton
Mike and Jeff discuss some MIT research into concrete batteries; Big Beard Batteries' RV Solar Clinics; NIO sets a battery swapping record; EV range anxiety isn't what is used to be.
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240: Batteries from the Salt of the Earth
More to Jeff's boat saga; Watertown, MA High School going net-zero; Bluetti's sodium-ion power station debuts; Briggs and Stratton home backup solutions; Texas breaking power generation records...in a good way.
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239: Get Moving with the Ford eTransit!
Mike and Jeff discuss Jeff's Dyson-esque battery opportunity; Belgrade Boats and Batteries; Hampton, NH making us proud; Jeff's eTransit experience; Pepsi Co goes for EV Big Rigs; P85D at Green Wave EV?
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238: Out Back By the Batteries with Todd Perry
Jeff and Mike discuss Jeff's Solar Update; and Todd Perry's Great White North off-grid cabin battery upgrade!
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237: Every Little Bit Helps
Mike and Jeff explore Mike's portable power station strategy; Jeff is going solar and takes us through the details; warning about buying a home with solar panels; modeling AI energy usage for AI; Let's talk about hydro-electric.
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236: Apparently Ice Cream is OK
Jeff and Mike have a chat about Jeff's Tesla Model Y full self driving experience; Porsche's in the Park event benefitting the Dempsey Center; discussion of real cost of EV battery replacement; so, what is a semi-solid state battery anyway?; off the grid AI data center gives EV batteries a second...
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235: Wow, OK, So that's a Big Ferry!
Mike and Jeff discuss a battery + solar powered floating urban greenhouse; a plug for Freight Farms; CATL's swappable EV battery tech and barriers to aoption in the US; a hybrid car ferry?; New England meets power demands with battery backup solutions.
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234: A Plug for Taking a Journey on a Battery Powered Train?
Jeff and Mike discuss Texas' improvements in the area of electricity demands through increased solar and battery backup; Are Battery Electric Trains a reality?; Solid state batteries drive towards 1,800 miles of range; Porsche + AI = Better Batteries.
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233: Modeling Digital Battery Twins with the About:Energy Team
Mike hosts Kieran O'Regan and Lorenzo Bergamaschi from About:Energy to discuss their innovative battery development and simulation technology. From Porsche to McMurtry to Formula 1, About:Energy accelerates the development of better, more sustainable batteries.
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232: Unpacking How You Pack for Your Next Flight
Jeff and Mike continue unpacking the new regulations for batteries in your checked luggage; the 100 watt-hour tipping point; sometimes the airlines and the TSA don't seem to agree; have you heard about HeaterMeals?
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231: Planes, Trains & Go-Karts (and Ships)
Mike and Jeff muse about: K1 indoor go-karts; Switzerland trials solar panels between train tracks; Worldwide solar generation rankings; battery-powered ships; confusion surrounding some new TSA regulations regarding batteries and luggage on airplanes.
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230: The Stretch Armstrong of Batteries?
Jeff and Mike chat about a Swedish university protoype of a fluid, flexible battery; Ecoflow's balcony solar panel; Porsche Cayman/Boxster EV delays; how EVs get their capacity from smaller cells; home EV chargers as incentives.
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229: We Asked AI About Our Podcast, and Then We Talked About Batteries Some More
Mike and Jeff talk about a CES 2025 solar roof tile announcement from Jackery; a reminder to check your 12V car battery; differences between marine batteries and automotive batteries; the guys come across a horrible Amazon ad for alkaline batteries and why Pale Blue Earth batteries will serve you...
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228: Can you dig it (with batteries)?
Jeff and Mike discuss the possible benefits a sodium-ion battery pack by Elecom; breaking ground with the Elgo-Plus Springer Max-EB micro excavator; is it worth $22k?
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227: More Battery & EV Fun with ASE Certified Master Technician Matt Lamontagne
Mike and Jeff share the second half of our interview with Matt Lamontagne of Leo & Son's Automotive in Lawrence, MA. This time we explore an issue with a Lexus RX400h; why people seek out Matt's expertise; Cybertruck wiper blade ideas; Kia EV-9 cool features; Matt discusses his teaching about...
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226: It's (Potentially) Bad for Your Wallet...with Matt Lamontagne
Jeff and Mike are joined once again by Matt Lamontagne of Leo & Son's Automotive in Lawrence, MA. Matt tells us about his new EV9, and the fate of the Mach-E; more about Leo & Sons services; discussion of dual & tri motor EVs; Tesla's charging "trick"; a mechanic's opinion of hub motors in EVs…
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225: How Fast is Fast? Jingyi Chen of Breathe Battery Technologies
How Fast is Fast?; Today Mike and Jeff host Jingyi Chen, Head of Battery at Breathe Battery Technologies. Learn how Breathe Charge and Breathe Life enable better battery charging and discharging performance.
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224: The Episode that went Sideways
Jeff and Mike discuss DeepDrive's EV motor yielding 20% more efficienc; a lesson about EV drivetrains; battery market cap; Mike's EcoFlow River battery woes...revisited; a walk down memory lane.
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223: There's Always Something Going On in Las Vegas
Mike and Jeff discuss some more details about Mike's battery shed; swappable toaster batteries?; Prologium's lithium ceramic battery; EcoFlow's Power Hat; Bluetti gets into home power; the Flint Paper Battery; Another snow blower for Jeff
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222: A River Runs Dry?
Jeff and Mike ring in 2025 by discussing a Stanford study about "lunatic EV driving"; a lovely note from a listener; Mike's EcoFlow River woes!
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221: Charging into 2025!
Mike and Jeff close out their fifth year of iLikeBatteries! Jeff's SnowJoe battery update; Jeff's new EGO show thrower; Mike finds a deal; Charging options Jeff missed during his Ionic 5 rental; CCA vs NACS charging standards; what about renting an EV from Turo?; are you wanting to start a...
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220: The Misadventures of Jeff's Ionic 5 Rental
Jeff takes Mike on a ride describing his adventures renting a Hyundai Ionic 5 in Charlotte, NC. If you're thinking of renting an EV, you'll want to pay extra attention to this episode!
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219: We're Being a Little Salty
Mike and Jeff discuss CATL introduction of the first hybrid battery that combines two chemisties; EREVs and PHEVs explained; Battery Innovations of 2024; Deck the Halls with battery powered lights.
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218: When the WORX Doesn't Work!
Jeff and Mike discuss the possibility of running a WORX leaf mulcher off of an EcoFlow River; Jeff's SnowJoeWoe; People batteries?; Sand Batteries?; Hidden Dangers of Flooded EVs; AI helping with battery recycling?
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Batteries are everywhere. Let's understand them better.
Join us each week as we discuss why we like batteries and learn more about the growing power of batteries around you each day.
HOSTED BY
ILikeBatteries
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