A lithium fire at the Moss Landing Power Plant on Thursday night forced evacuations in Northern Monterey County and continues to burn. Moss Landing Power Plant is a natural gas-powered electricity ...

Lithium, a key ingredient in the batteries of electric vehicles, has a fast-growing new market, battery energy storage systems.

In the past couple of years, we have seen a monumental shift in the battery technology employed in mass-market machines and gadgets. In the automobile segment, the likes of Volkswagen and Nissan have ...

Lithium. While it’s not quite “the Spice” of Dune, the silvery, reactive metal is an extraordinarily valuable means for storing electricity, meaning it’s a key tool for transitioning from ...

Lithium is extracted from brine at Silver Peak, Nevada, currently the only active lithium resource in the U.S. A UC Davis study shows that as demand for lithium grows in coming years, battery ...

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DISCARDED LITHIUM BATTERIES. IT’S A HAZARD WE’VE TOLD YOU ABOUT AND IT IS GROWING. NOW, ONE NEBRASKA LAWMAKER HAS INTRODUCED A BILL TO CREATE A RECYCLING DISPOSAL SYSTEM THAT’S PAID FOR BY THE BATTERY ...

As you begin to buy holiday gifts for your family or loved ones, you might be surprised at how many things use lithium-ion batteries. Every year, it's estimated that there are more than 5,000 ...

Writer and occasional reluctant perpetrator of engine swaps, James O'Neil is a malaise era enthusiast and also fascinated by the many ways the auto industry has since recovered from those dark days.

The purpose of this guideline is to provide users of lithium-ion (Li-ion) and lithium polymer (LiPo) cells and battery packs with comprehensive information to safely handle them under normal and ...