The Latest Breaking News from lithium

Threatened by possible shortages of lithium for electric car batteries, automakers are racing to lock in supplies of the once-obscure “white gold” in a politically and environmentally fraught competition from China to Nevada to Chile

The Penryn-based mining company is looking to demonstrate commercial capability of lithium production in Cornwall for potential use in products such as batteries for electric vehicles

A U.S. appeals court is considering challenges to a huge lithium mine in Nevada that pits environmentalists and Native Americans against President Joe Biden’s plans to combat climate change

John Goodenough, who shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work developing the lithium-ion battery that transformed technology with rechargeable power for devices ranging from cellphones, computers and pacemakers to electric cars, has died at 100

Disposable vapes contain lithium batteries which should be disposed of at recycling centres. But each year millions are discarded.

New York City officials said they would renew efforts to crack down on unsafe e-bike shops following a spate of deadly fires caused by lithium ion batteries

The latest challenge to lithium mining in Nevada in the push for cleaner energy comes from a place where no opposition has arisen before: space

While ChatGPT and other forms of artificial intelligence (AI) have been dominating headlines recently, little attention has been given to the physical infrastructure such as data centres and microchip factories needed to support this technological revolution. Debates surrounding AI are rarely concerned with how tech companies extract resources to fuel…

NEW YORK — Four Chinatown residents died early Tuesday after a raging e-bike fire tore through a repair shop previously flagged for unsafe conditions, with scores of terrified survivors fleeing into the darkness outside their homes.

The first ever 711 Wh/kg rechargeable lithium battery isn't ready for practical use, but it's exciting for mobile electronics.

The leadership team of International Battery Company (IBC), an American firm, that is planning to invest ₹8,000 crore in setting up a proprietary Lithium Nickle Manganese Cobalt prismatic cell manufacturing plant in Karnataka on Monday met M.B. Patil, Minister for Large and Medium Industries.