Energy & Green Tech
Demand for valuable metals needed in batteries is poised to grow over the coming decades in step with the growth of clean energy technologies, and the best place to source them may be by recycling spent batteries.
Sep 27, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Two electric vehicle fires have been reported in Australia this week. Five cars were destroyed after a lithium battery ignited in a car parked at Sydney Airport on Monday. Firefighters believed the battery had been detached ...
Sep 15, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Electric vehicles are expected to take off dramatically in the coming years. They'll be followed, eventually, by a wave of used batteries that—as it stands now—will be headed mostly for landfills.
Aug 6, 2021
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There' s a loud bang, and then it starts: A battery module of an electric car is on fire in the Hagerbach test tunnel. A video of the test impressively shows the energy stored in such batteries: Meter-long flames hiss through ...
Aug 17, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
With its electric and hydrogen-fueled trucks, the firm Nikola aims to revolutionize the future of the transportation sector. But with one investor claiming the group is running on empty, it has been having a rollercoaster ...
Sep 15, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
The demand for high-performance batteries, especially for use in electric vehicles, is surging as the world shifts its energy consumption to a more electric-powered system, reducing reliance on fossil fuels and prioritizing ...
Aug 17, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
A new technique to make solid-state electrolytes safer and more efficient for solid-state batteries has been developed by researchers from the University of Surrey, the National Physical Laboratory and the University College ...
Apr 5, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Researchers from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), belonging to the CMT-Motores Térmicos research institute, are working on different national and international projects to improve the safety of lithium-ion ...
Mar 24, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a robotic disassembly system for spent electric vehicle battery packs to safely and efficiently recycle and reuse critical materials while ...
Aug 16, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
A machine learning technique to improve analysis and prediction of lithium-ion battery life has been developed by researchers in Scotland. Gonçalo dos Reis and colleagues at the University of Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt University, ...
Dec 14, 2022
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