SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — Recent high-profile national and local cases of electric vehicle fires and fires caused by lithium-ion batteries may have you concerned about keeping you and your family safe, ...

Canada recently signed a new trade agreement with China, reducing tariffs on up to 49,000 Chinese electric vehicles (EVs) ...

Saltwater is a particular problem for lithium-ion batteries because salt dissolved in water is conductive, which means that electric current readily flows through it. According to one tally, 11 ...

The chief of the largest container port in the Americas has warned that near-inextinguishable lithium-ion battery fires on vessels pose a growing risk to global supply chains as volatile geopolitics ...

There is not a single solution on how to mitigate fires from lithium-ion batteries in electric vehicles. Strategies and concerns will continue to change as car manufactureres continue to release ...

The global transition to green technologies has increased the demand for lithium dramatically. This critical mineral, abundant but distributed unevenly, is essential for energy storage and transport ...

When the modern electric vehicle was still in its infancy, drivers worried that vehicles would need expensive battery ...

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Lithium is extracted from brine at Silver Peak, Nevada, currently the only active lithium resource in the U.S. A UC Davis study shows that as demand for lithium grows in coming years, battery ...

A Chinese automaker has introduced the world's first electric vehicle (EV) powered by a sodium-ion (Na-ion) battery.