
Amprius Gets $75M Pentagon Drone Battery Grant, Mostly Unfunded
Amprius will turn a U.S. EV battery line into a 12-million-cell drone factory. Its filing shows $22 million of the $75 million grant is funded so far.
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Amprius will turn a U.S. EV battery line into a 12-million-cell drone factory. Its filing shows $22 million of the $75 million grant is funded so far.

Luke Maximo Bell's build log for MTech's second-place DARPA Lift Challenge run shows heat, not battery capacity, ended the team's 4:1 attempt in Dayton.

DJI put the Power 2000 on stage at IFA 2026 as a grid-tied home battery with its first balcony solar kit. US buyers get none of it.

A YouTube builder's custom 3-inch quad pairs one 21700 cell with a DJI O4 Air Unit for 34-minute flights and a 5 km lake crossing, plus the DJI part US builders can't get.

Chinese researchers built a laser receiver that converts light and waste heat into electricity at 38.49% efficiency, enough to spin a drone propeller.
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