Lithium News

A team of engineers at Nanjing University, working with a pair of colleagues from the University of California, Berkeley, has developed a new way to extract lithium from briny water. In their paper published in the journal Science, the team describes the process they developed and the device they built and how it could be […]

Battery metal prices have struggled as a surge in new production overwhelmed demand, coinciding with a slowdown in electric vehicle adoption. As Visual Capitalist’s Bruno Venditti details below, Lithium prices, for example, have plummeted nearly 90% since the late 2022 peak, leading to mine closures and impacting the price of lithium-ion batteries used in EVs. This graphic uses exclusive data […]

Mining giant Rio Tinto (ASX, LON, NYSE: RIO) and UK refinery developer Green Lithium are partnering to establish an end-to-end lithium supply chain aimed at supporting the UK and EU’s automotive and manufacturing industries. “By building our refineries, we will accelerate the adoption of EVs and sustainable energy storage through the increased supply of low-carbon, […]

Panasonic has announced it’s ready to begin mass production on its long-awaited 4680 lithium-ion battery cells, specifically designed to boost range, power, charging and efficiency in electric vehicles, while also reducing cost. Conventional EV packs are typically built around stacks of 2170 cells – 21 mm in diameter, 70 mm in length (0.83 x 2.8 […]

The “holy grail” of EV battery tech may arrive sooner than expected, promising more range and faster charging. According to BYD head scientist and engineer Lian Yubo, solid-state EV batteries could be in wide use in five years. Speaking at the 2024 World New Energy Congress in China on Friday, Lian said he expects the […]

The number of tidal power and other offshore renewable energy installations is set to grow significantly around the UK coastline over the coming decades. However, launching state-of-the-art devices into often turbulent ocean flows has the potential to pose a range of challenges for the tidal energy industry, including uncertainty around how they may interact with […]

Skoltech scientists have presented a model that facilitates the design and operation of vanadium redox flow batteries. These are large-scale storage units for electrical power that promise to play a major part in the energy transformation and are already used by utilities in China, Germany, and the U.S. to even out peak demand on the […]

Imperial County consistently ranks among the most economically distressed places in California. The Salton Sea, the state’s biggest and most toxic lake, is an environmental disaster. And the region’s politics have been dominated by a conservative white elite, despite its supermajority Latino population. The county also happens to be sitting on enough lithium to produce nearly 400 million […]

SUMNER, Wash. — Puget Sound Energy announced a new renewable energy project for Pierce County on Tuesday. The agency said a Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) facility is planned to be built in Sumner off of East Valley Highway. Puget Sound Energy said will help maintain reliability during peak energy demand. PSE also said it […]

Uranium Energy (NYSE: UEC) has agreed to buy Rio Tinto’s (ASX, LON, NYSE: RIO) assets in Wyoming, US, which include the fully-licensed Sweetwater plant and a portfolio of uranium mining projects. The uranium producer and explorer said the $175 million cash deal would give it key assets that will allow it to boost production, providing opportunities for synergy […]