A big home backup battery costs thousands of dollars -- and thousands more to install. A new entrant in the space seeks to bring a smart-home approach without requiring the upfront electrical work of ...

Solar panels can only generate electricity; they can’t store it, so you must pair them with a stand-alone battery bank or a power station. For home emergency power (for a few hours of power), we ...

The numbers say that EVs are a small fraction of the vehicles on roads -- they account for only 9% of light-duty vehicle sales in the third quarter of 2024 -- however, the rate at which EV technology ...

Pila Energy, founded by former engineers from Tesla, debuted at SXSW with an easy way to keep your fridge going in a power outage. Jon covers artificial intelligence. He previously led CNET's home ...