Conventional lithium-ion batteries are known to present a fire risk, and can even cause explosions in certain cases. The widespread usage of lithium-ion batteries, in everything from electric vehicles ...

Lithium-ion batteries power everything from our portable electronics and electric vehicles to vital medical equipment and renewable energy storage. As the market expands, researchers are finding ways ...

Lithium-ion battery deployment is proliferating exponentially in the United States. Every phone, power tool and electric vehicle come with a lithium battery today, not to mention the 100 GWh or so of ...

Eduardo Zepeda is a car aficionado, gasoline mechanic, and motorhome enthusiast based in central Mexico. He has lived in different parts of Mexico, the United States, and Canada, and he is constantly ...

Lithium-ion batteries have dropped in cost by 75% over the past decade, a marvel of research and development that isn’t the result of a singular breakthrough but of myriad incremental improvements.

Found everywhere from smartphones to electric vehicles, lithium-ion batteries could revolutionize the heavy-duty trucking industry. Their higher energy density (more power per unit space), lighter ...

The basic principle of all li-ion batteries is: li-ions on the run. In a fully charged battery cell, billions of lithium (Li) atoms are trapped in the “anode” porous reservoir, typically a thin sheet ...

Lithium Iron Phosphate, or LFP, has many advantages, but right now it doesn’t work so well in cold or hot weather. General Motors says it’s leading a $60 million Series B financing round in Mitra Chem ...

Most batteries powering today’s electric vehicles are made from subcategories of lithium-ion, with chemistries like nickel-manganese-cobalt (NMC), nickel-cobalt-aluminum (NCA), and ...