Lithium News

Australia’s transition to renewables is gathering speed, but there’s a looming problem with storage. We will need much more long-duration storage to get us through the night, once coal and fossil gas exit the system. We also need to find new and better ways to create heat for industrial processes. Renewables can supply much of that […]

Volvo Cars (VOLVb.ST), opens new tab will pay Northvolt almost nothing for its 50% stake in their battery venture Novo Energy that it had agreed to acquire, according to the automaker’s quarterly report on Thursday. Last week, Volvo Cars agreed with Northvolt to take over its stake in the venture, which included a planned Gothenburg […]

With the rising global demand for cost-effective sustainable batteries, lithium-ion batteries are at the forefront as energy storage solutions. However, achieving a high energy density with long-term stability in such batteries is essential to extending the usage time of electric devices. LiNi₀.₅Mn₁.₅O₄ (LNMO), known for its thermal stability and cost-effectiveness, is a promising material for […]

The world’s largest automaker wants to catch up in the global EV race after falling behind rivals like Tesla and BYD. On Wednesday, Toyota announced that its $14 billion EV battery plant in North Carolina is open for business. The new facility will begin shipping batteries for Toyota’s electric vehicles in April. Meanwhile, Toyota revealed separate plans to challenge […]

KORE Power has scrapped plans for its $1 billion lithium-ion battery factory in Buckeye, Arizona, and its CEO and founder has resigned. Idaho-based KORE Power announced plans to sell the site in Arizona originally designated for its 2-million-square-foot KOREPlex factory. In an emailed statement, KORE said: The company has recently undertaken a restructuring to provide more […]

Researchers from South Korea have made a stunning breakthrough in lithium battery technology. The ramifications of their innovation could be profound when it comes to the production of electric vehicles and other large-scale energy storage devices. Lithium batteries have long offered incredible promise as the next generation of energy storage. But scientists have struggled to […]

Experts studying flow batteries see the potential for the alternatively designed packs to be powerful energy storers to one day replace dirty energy sources, according to a story by CleanTechnica. But first, they have to develop a cost-effective membrane needed for the entire unit to work, the online publication’s Tina Casey wrote. Lithium-ion packs, like […]

Recycling lithium-ion batteries to recover their critical metals has significantly lower environmental impacts than mining virgin metals, according to a new Stanford University lifecycle analysis published in Nature Communications. On a large scale, recycling could also help relieve the long-term supply insecurity—physically and geopolitically—of critical battery minerals. Lithium-ion battery recyclers source materials from two main […]

Thanks to a new type of airflow booster for ionic wind, completely new fields of application are opening up for the start-up Ionic Wind Technologies. In the future, the patented technology will be used primarily for cooling data centers and high-performance electronics. Data centers consume vast amounts of energy—about 40% of it for cooling microprocessors […]

With an electric current and hydrogen peroxide, researchers at Penn State have developed a more efficient way to extract lithium, a key component in the batteries used in electric vehicles and portable electric devices, directly from ore found in the common mineral spodumene. The process could facilitate a 35.6% reduction in cost and a 75.3% […]