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How L.A. removed 1 million pounds of flammable lithium-ion batteries from its burn zones
How to deal with all those dangerous lithium-ion batteries in the burn zones? Sift. Brine. Crush (in two bright blue 'sausage ...
Fire Department gives tips to avoid Lithium-ion battery related fires
Lithium-ion batteries are an incredibly popular source of power, especially in electric vehicles like cars, bikes and scooters. But over the past couple of years, there has been a noticeable ...
XL Batteries is using petrochemical infrastructure to store solar and wind power
XL Batteries is building what are known as flow batteries. A basic flow battery consists of two tanks connected to pumps that ...
Boiling Point: Trump loves coal. Lithium-ion batteries, maybe not
Some of the worst consequences of Trump’s tariffs could fall on lithium-ion batteries, a crucial technology for electric car ...
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US tariffs on Chinese lithium battery materials create winners and losers in global supply chain
The US has intensified tariffs on Chinese lithium battery materials, beginning with the Inflation Reduction Act under the ...
Batteries for all, not just the rich? Labor’s home battery plan must be properly targeted to be fair
Labor’s promised subsidies for home batteries have to be well targeted. If not, they could simply make rich households richer ...
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CIBF2025: Unveiling the Future of Battery Technology at Asia's Premier Event
The 17th China International Battery Fair, CIBF2025, will gather global battery industry leaders at Shenzhen from May 15-17, ...
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Fast charging, powerful EV battery: Breakthrough US model unlocks lithium failure secrets
A researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has developed a groundbreaking computational model that provides new ...
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Mechanistic understanding could enable better fast-charging batteries
Fast-charging lithium-ion batteries are ubiquitous, powering everything from cellphones and laptops to electric vehicles.