Lithium News

Shares in the world’s top two lithium producers are tanking after Chile said their contracts will not be renewed under a new public-private partnership model announced on Friday. Chile’s President Gabriel Boric announced on Thursday night his government would nationalise the country’s lithium supply, applying a model where private companies will be forced to partner […]

Codelco is in early-stage talks with prospective partners for a lithium project in northern Chile as the country with the biggest reserves of the battery metal strives to boost output. As it wraps up an exploration program this year at the Maricunga salt flat, Codelco has been contacted by several companies, Chairman Maximo Pacheco said […]

Lithium-ion batteries power our lives. Because they are lightweight, have high energy density and are rechargeable, the batteries power many products, from laptops and cell phones to electric cars and toothbrushes. However, current lithium-ion batteries have reached the limit of how much energy they can store. That has researchers looking for more powerful and cheaper alternatives. Sulfur is inexpensive, […]

Chilean state-owned copper companies Codelco and Enami are holding talks with private-sector firms to develop lithium deposits in a country that holds the world’s biggest reserves of the battery metal. Top copper supplier Codelco and Enami, which provides services to small- and mid-sized producers, will represent the state in new lithium projects given it will […]

Apple Inc said on Thursday it would use only recycled cobalt in batteries by 2025 as a part of its efforts to make all its products carbon neutral by the end of the decade. Magnets in Apple devices will use recycled rare earth elements, and in-house designed printed circuit boards will use recycled tin soldering […]

Energy engineers and material scientists are continuously trying to create safe battery technologies that exhibit higher energy densities and efficiencies, along with longer life cycles. As lithium-ion batteries (LiBs) are among the most widespread battery technologies, many current research efforts focus on improving the individual components of these batteries, including cathodes, the positive electrodes inside […]

Japanese trading house Mitsubishi Corp is looking to invest in nickel and lithium projects to meet growing demand for electric vehicle (EV) batteries, while boosting its copper output, the head of its metal operations said on Thursday. The move comes as global push by automakers to electrify their fleets has sparked a rush for stable […]

Researchers at Texas A&M University discovered that water-based battery electrodes store more energy than previously thought. In a paper published in the journal Nature Materials, the scientists explain that their experiments and simulations allowed them to identify a 1,000% difference in the storage capacity of metal-free, water-based battery electrodes. Cobalt-free aqueous batteries consist of a cathode, an electrolyte […]

Swiss miner and commodities trader Glencore (LON: GLEN) is joining forces with waste management services provider FCC Ámbito and Spanish energy firm Iberdrola to offer lithium-ion battery recycling services in Spain and Portugal. The partners will build a recycling plant that will also offer second-life solutions for batteries, both from gigafactory production scrap and end-of-life […]

Getting rid of old batteries can be a hassle. But for recycling startup Ascend Elements, other people’s garbage is basically a gold mine, if not better. The Massachusetts-based company opened a recycling plant in Covington, Georgia in late March that it says is the largest electric-vehicle battery recycling facility in North America. It can process […]