Lithium

Sustainable Alternatives to Lithium Use in Batteries

Many electronic devices need lithium-ion batteries as a power source. However, lithium presents serious sustainability challenges. This article looks at the sus…

Solar Power Plant

Ingeteam Touts Italy’s Largest Storage System

Spain’s Ingeteam will supply a 70 MW/340 MWh facility based on almost 60 lithium-ion containers to provide storage services to the grid.

Electric Car

Natron to Kick off Mass-Production of Long-Life Sodium-Ion Batteries

Natron's sodium-ion batteries have an enormous cycle life, practical power density, excellent safety and super-fast charging, without using any lithium. Through…

Electric Car

The Mobility rEVolution: New Lithium-Ion Battery Material for Faster Charging Times

In other news, Volkswagen’s electric vehicles are sold out in Europe and the US. for 2022, Porsche invests in silicon anode specialist, and Tesla is reportedly…

Electric Vehicle Battery

The Salton Sea Could Produce the World’s Greenest Lithium, if New Extraction Technologies Work

About 40 miles north of the California-Mexico border lies the shrinking, landlocked lake known as the Salton Sea. The California Energy Commission estimates tha…

Energy Storage Battery

LG and Shell Back High Performance Lithium-Ion Battery Development

South 8 Technologies has raised $12 million in Series A financing to commercialise next-generation electrolytes for lithium-ion batteries.

Carbon Neutral

More Metals Needed to Meet EU's Green Deal Goal of Climate Neutrality by 2050

Meeting EU's Green Deal goal of climate neutrality by 2050 will require 35 times more lithium and 7 to 26 times the amount of increasingly scarce rare earth met…

Mexico

Mexican President Urges Energy, Lithium Firms to Talk to Government

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Wednesday urged companies to consult their lawyers and talk to the government following decisions in support of…

Electric Car

New Crystal Battery Boasts Triple Energy Density

Global lithium-sulphur cathode technology manufacturer Theion has launched its crystal battery for all mobile applications. The new battery boasts triple energy…

Energy Storage Battery

ARENA Grants $14m Funding for AGL’s Broken Hill Battery Project

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) announced it will invest $14.84m to help AGL fund its 50-megawatt (MW)/50-megawatt-hour (MWh) lithium-ion large s…

Geothermal Power Plant

Entire US Lithium Demand Can Be Supplied by Salton Sea Geothermal Plants

An article written by Bryant Jones from Boise State University and Michael McKibben of University of California, Riverside, discusses how the entire lithium dem…

Electric Car

Electric Vehicle Market: Is Lithium the New Oil?

More governments today are working towards creating new legislation and regulations for pollution and emission reduction. This has made electric and hybrid cars…

Electric Car

Mining for Electric Cars Is Harming Flamingos!

Lithium is a key element to get EVs on the move – but it’s leading to certain flamingo species becoming endangered.

Energy Storage Technology

£7m for UK Flow Battery and Energy Storage Projects

The UK government has announced £6.7m (€8m ) for new energy storage technologies. This includes flow batteries to sit alongside wind and solar farms, using va…

United Kingdom

Partnership to Explore Geothermal Heating and Lithium Extraction in UK

Cornish Lithium and IGas Energy have agreed to jointly evaluate potential sites for geothermal heating and lithium extraction in the UK.