We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. When it comes to batteries, most of us will have a handle on fundamentals like volts, amps, and watts. But what about the rest of the jargon?

All electric vehicles have big battery packs that can hold dozens of kilowatt hours of electricity, which are required to power their powerful traction motors for hundreds of miles. For some EVs, ...

Mercedes is experimenting with multiple-chemistry battery packs that have more than one type of cell. A new type of micro-converter and hooking up the battery cells in parallel not in series makes ...