Battery recycler Li-Cycle plans to lay off 17% of its staff – including three senior executives – as it pares its ambitious global growth plans in order to save cash and focus on building a crucial processing facility in New York. The cuts, announced on Tuesday, are a tacit acknowledgement by the Toronto-based company that […]
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America’s lithium laws fail to keep pace with rapid development
Washington’s drive to make the United States a major global lithium producer is being held back by a confusing mix of state regulations that are deterring developers and hampering efforts to break China’s control of the critical minerals sector. Across Texas, Louisiana and other mineral-rich states, it’s unclear who owns the millions of metric tons […]
Battery Train Sets Distance Record — The Beginning Of Beautiful Fast Charging
Our childhood memories of trains are romantic: black metal monsters heaving themselves down the track, huge white billows of smoke trailing behind. “Everybody loves the sound of a train in the distance,” Paul Simon mused. “Everybody thinks it’s true.” What’s true about trains today, though, is that we need to electrify railway lines. That’s because […]
HELENA project produces solid-state battery cell with halide electrolyte
HELENA stands for “Halide Solid State Batteries for Electric Vehicles and Aircrafts” and aims to accelerate the development of powerful and stable solid-state batteries for electric road vehicles and aircraft. The 15 project participants began their work under the coordination of the CIC energiGUNE research center a good one and a half years ago. Now […]
Scientists make breakthrough in battery technology that could prevent EVs from catching fire: ‘Ideal for high-speed and intensive use in real-world applications’
The answer to removing fire risk from batteries might be obvious: Water. At least that’s what an ingenious innovation from the minds of researchers at Australia’s RMIT University indicates. The team there has developed what it calls an aqueous metal-ion battery that won’t catch fire but still meets performance benchmarks. The problem is that common […]
Indonesia’s e-bike shops are building their own batteries
Dharmawan Kusna Handoyo spends his workday in a 2-by-3-meter cubicle, soldering batteries. He has been building DIY battery packs since 2009, when he installed one in his own electric bike — but in the past few years, it has become his main source of income. He sells the packs for hundreds of dollars apiece, luring […]
We rely heavily on lithium batteries – but there’s a growing array of alternatives
Lithium batteries are very difficult to recycle and require huge amounts of water and energy to produce. Emerging alternatives could be cheaper and greener. In Australia’s Yarra Valley, new battery technology is helping power the country’s residential buildings and commercial ventures – without using lithium. These batteries rely on sodium – an element found in […]
Can you safely revive a dead lithium-ion battery? Yes – here’s how
More and more devices now come kitted out with rechargeable lithium-ion batteries — you know, the ones that look like the old-style AA or C cell batteries, but are a slightly different size. The most common size is the now ubiquitous 18650, but there are loads of other sizes in use too, such as the […]
Black mass market waits to see the effect of higher nickel and lithium prices
Spot lithium hydroxide and carbonate prices in the CIF China, Japan and South Korea (CJK) market picked up for the first time in months on Monday of this week, following the recent lithium price rally in China’s domestic market. Nickel prices on the Shanghai Futures Exchange (SHFE) also moved upward on Wednesday while the other […]
Fast-charging lithium-sulfur batteries on the horizon
New research shows that the next generation of lithium-sulfur (Li||S) batteries may be capable of being charged in less than five minutes, instead of several hours as is currently the case. The paper is published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology. The University of Adelaide’s Professor Shizhang Qiao, Chair of Nanotechnology, and Director, Center for Materials […]
