As global demand for lithium-ion batteries continues to surge, a team of Rice University researchers has developed a faster, ...

Craig has worked in automotive media for nearly 20 years, producing content for publications ranging from Autoline and AutoGuide to Roadshow by CNET and EV Pulse. Aside from writing, he’s also ...

A spent electric vehicle battery pack is, by most accounts, a recycling headache. Cracking one open means dealing with toxic ...

It isn't easy to recycle high-voltage batteries from electric cars, but Porsche wants to take a stab at it. The plan: extract raw materials from old EV batteries to make fresh ones for its own ...

LEMONT, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has recently launched a collaboration with Toyota Motor North America that could reduce the nation’s ...

Several disposable batteries in a recycling bin. - CHUYKO SERGEY/Shutterstock No matter how advanced batteries become, they still run out of energy eventually, or otherwise lose their ability to store ...

The minerals found in an electric-car battery often travel thousands of miles around the world before the vehicles they will be in hit the road. Lithium mined in Chile or Argentina is shipped to China ...

BMW Group says new AI models developed with the University of Zagreb can cut ...

Rice University researchers have created a water-based method to recover critical metals from spent lithium-ion batteries in minutes, avoiding harsh chemicals and high energy use. The hydroxylammonium ...

Princeton NuEnergy (PNE), a New Jersey-based company that specializes in lithium-ion battery recycling, has closed a $30 million Series A funding round with oversubscribed and strategic investments ...

For the first time, carmakers and battery manufacturers can now recycle used or defective batteries from electric cars on an industrial scale using laser technology from high-tech company Trumpf. The ...

It was an "almost accidental" discovery, the photocatalyst they invented turned out to be robust enough to withstand the battery acid.