Sodium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and energy storage are moving toward the mainstream. Wider use of these batteries could lead to lower costs, less fire risk, and less need for lithium, ...

Firefighters and safety managers now face fires that may not respond to traditional suppression. This lack of clarity has ...

A team of researchers in China has just pulled the curtain back on a new sodium-sulfur battery design that could ...

China is pushing lithium-sulfur batteries from lab curiosity toward real-world hardware, and the latest twist adds sunlight ...

Writer and occasional reluctant perpetrator of engine swaps, James O'Neil is a malaise era enthusiast and also fascinated by the many ways the auto industry has since recovered from those dark days.

Recent research published in Science introduces a promising solid electrolyte material that could improve the performance of ...

Lithium may be the key component in most modern batteries, but it doesn’t make up the bulk of the material used in them. Instead, much of the material is in the electrodes, where the lithium gets ...

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 ...