TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Lithium, the crucial ingredient in the lithium-ion batteries that will power everything from your Tesla to your iPhone. . The problem is, extracting lithium is expensive , time-consuming, labor intensive and takes a serious toll on the environment. Image Credits: Minerva Lithium. The most precious of all?

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TechSpot

JUNE 26, 2024

million in sales last year, makes lithium batteries for sensors and radio communication devices. The fire happened at a two-story building run by primary battery manufacturer Aricell. The company, which reported $3.5 Fire officials say around 35,000 battery units were stored in the warehouse. Read Entire Article

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 13, 2025

In addition, Soviet and Ukrainian geoscientists identified deposits of lithium and rare earth metals that remain undeveloped. None of these had been mined there as of early 2025, though a lithium deposit had been licensed for commercial extraction. million to 3 million tons of lithium oxide.

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TechSpot

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Earlier this year, an MIT study revealed the price of lithium-ion batteries has fallen by more than 97 percent since their commercial introduction in 1991. This dramatic decrease in cost has been a boon for the mobile and electric car industries, and has also made residential solar power systems more.

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TechSpot

AUGUST 4, 2024

This groundbreaking innovation marks a significant milestone in the quest for sustainable and cost-effective alternatives to traditional lithium-ion batteries. Texas-based startup Group1 has unveiled the world's first Potassium-ion battery (KIB) in the industry-standard 18650 cylindrical form factor. Read Entire Article

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The Verge

JULY 2, 2021

General Motors has struck a deal with a mining company to source lithium, a key ingredient in electric-car batteries, from geothermal deposits in the US. It’s a risky bet by GM, given that there is no full-scale lithium production in the US from geothermal wells.

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TechSpot

MARCH 7, 2024

The team's liquid battery uses standard water with a few added salts in place of traditional electrolytic fluid like sulfuric acid or lithium salt to enable the flow of current between the positive and negative ends of the battery. It also uses bismuth metal as a coating for the zinc. Read Entire Article

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2022

The next bottleneck in lithium-ion battery supplies isn’t cobalt, even though China has a stranglehold on the market, and it’s not nickel, either, despite nickel prices nearly doubling in the past five months. But there’s no substitute for one crucial component of these batteries: Lithium. The crunch.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2022

After much deliberation, the TechCrunch editors pored over the judges’ notes and narrowed the list down to five finalists : Advanced Ionics , AppMap , Intropic Materials , Minerva Lithium and Swap Robotics. Winner: Minerva Lithium. Read our coverage on Minerva Lithium here. One startup emerged victorious. Without further ado!

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

For years, scientists and engineers predicted that lithium-ion batteries would get a boost if they could just add more silicon. Today, nearly all lithium-ion batteries use graphite because it offers a stable home for lithium ions when charging. To hold one lithium ion, graphite needs to devote six carbon atoms to the task.

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

A new paper published in Science describes the chemistry behind a novel lithium-air battery, an innovative design which could potentially provide way more energy density than traditional li-ion battery technology. It could serve as a real breakthrough for the battery market and a possible revolution for transportation and heavy-duty vehicles.

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Ars Technica

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Fire officials now believe that the whole incident began when a resident improperly disposed of a lithium-ion battery by placing it in a recycling bin. In this case, however, all the pressure relief devices failedand the CNG tanks exploded. Read full article Comments

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TechSpot

AUGUST 31, 2024

Producing lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and many other devices is complex and time-consuming. Manufacturers are trying to find quicker methods without compromising quality, but the nature of the process severely complicates efforts to study the relationship between various manufacturing approaches and performance.

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TechSpot

JULY 10, 2020

As the Argonne National Laboratory highlights, lithium batteries have utilized cathode coatings for more than 15 years albeit in a limited capacity. Existing implementations only blanket a small part of the outside of the cathode particle and aren’t effective when it operates at a high temperature or high voltage.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

With its first electric vehicle now outselling the quintessential 911 sports car, the German automaker is responding by upping its bet on EVs, in part via a hefty investment in lithium-silicon battery developer Group14 Technologies. Porsche injected $100 million into Group14 as part of a larger $400 million Series C funding round.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

One of the key target resources is lithium, a critical component for smartphones, electric vehicle batteries and nearly every other electric tool of modern convenience and industrial import. Other solutions to the lithium problem are attracting investor attention, too.

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TechSpot

APRIL 24, 2024

Compared to their lithium counterparts, the materials used in sodium batteries are far more abundant (up to 1,000 more plentiful) and affordable. They are also much safer than lithium-ion batteries, and can be discharged to 0V. Sodium-ion batteries aren't new, but they've only started to gain traction in recent years.

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TechSpot

AUGUST 20, 2021

Earlier this year, an MIT study revealed that lithium-ion battery costs have fallen by more than 97 percent since its commercial introduction almost 30 years ago. Not only that, but industry watchers are optimistic that by 2025 lithium-ion battery manufacturing capacity will have tripled while the price per kilowatt-hour is.

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TechNode

JANUARY 23, 2025

Why it matters: Despite this, CATL warned it might end the year with a revenue decline for the first time since it started releasing its financial figures in 2015, due to the lithium price squeeze that has been shaking up the industry since hitting its peak in late 2022.

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TechSpot

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

It's no secret that lithium-ion batteries are at the forefront of modern energy storage and a key driver for electrification efforts worldwide. Lithium producers in recent years have warned the world could soon. However, manufacturing them at the scale needed to meet growing demand seems like an almost impossible task.

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Digital Trends

JUNE 8, 2022

The limitations of lithium-ion batteries help explain this frustration of modern EVs. Electric vehicles take so long to charge compared to gas cars.

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TechSpot

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Reports of exploding batteries in mobile electronics like smartphones aren't all that uncommon and often occur when the battery gets punctured. This creates a short circuit between the positive and negative layers, providing a path for all of the energy stored in the battery to flow through. Things can quickly.

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TechSpot

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Wai Cheong "Andy" Tam, one of the researchers on the NIST team, was watching videos of exploding batteries and noticed that right before they caught fire, a distinct "click-hiss" sound could be heard. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

MARCH 25, 2021

Consumers often lament that battery technology hasn't improved at the same rate as others, like computing power which has gone up dramatically over the last few decades while batteries have only improved in relatively smaller steps. However, the biggest issue we face today is that with the proliferation of mobile.

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TechSpot

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Solid-state batteries afford a number of benefits over traditional lithium-ion packs, and use both solid electrodes and solid electrolytes instead of the liquid or gel-like electrolyte found in lithium-ions.

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TechNode

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Chinese battery startup Inx recently announced that it has developed a new solid-state lithium-metal battery which could be powerful enough for use in electric aircraft, and has signed a supply deal with Chinese drone maker EHang. 1, Inx said on Nov. 15 at a press conference. TechNode reporting , Inx statement, in Chinese ]

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TechSpot

AUGUST 23, 2024

As iFixit highlights in its latest teardown, the Galaxy Ring – like all other smart rings – is hamstrung by the fact that its lithium battery can't be replaced without destroying the device. In essence, Samsung's health tracking ring has a shelf life and once the battery is worn out, Read Entire Article

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The Verge

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Most EV companies use “wet” lithium-ion batteries, which use liquid electrolytes to move energy around. QuantumScape says its solid-state batteries will represent a significant improvement over conventional lithium-ion batteries, enabling electric vehicles that can travel 80 percent further than an electric vehicle with a traditional battery.

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The Verge

APRIL 1, 2021

It will consist of 85 Tesla lithium-ion “megapacks” and be used to help power the company’s corporate headquarters in Cupertino. While Apple uses lithium-ion batteries in many of its products, it’s not known to be working on any grid-scale projects. It’s something that can be imitated or built upon by other companies.”.

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TechSpot

JANUARY 11, 2024

Microsoft collaborated with the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) to discover a novel material that could alleviate the global dependence on lithium in the production of rechargeable batteries.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Its Blade lithium-ion phosphate battery is perhaps the world’s safest and most efficient EV battery, with Tesla opting to use it in some of its EVs, industry analyst Michael Dunne said in a recent report.

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TechNode

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Chinese battery giant CATL is calling for greater effort to make electric vehicle batteries more sustainable, with chief executive Robin Zeng recently claiming that more than half of all new batteries could be produced using recycled lithium globally in 2042. Speaking at the World New Energy Vehicle Congress on Sept. Caixin , in Chinese]

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

billion factory in Michigan that was supposed to make cheaper lithium iron phosphate batteries using tech from China’s CATL. Ford confirmed Monday it has immediately stopped work at a $3.5

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The supply agreement marks a significant milestone for the 13-year-old lithium-ion battery company, which has raised over $900 million to date. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechSpot

AUGUST 7, 2024

According to the Department of Energy's Vehicle Technologies Office, lithium-ion battery pack costs for EVs have plummeted by an astounding 90% from 2008 to 2023, when adjusted for inflation. In 2023, the estimated cost stood at $139 per kilowatt-hour (kWh) for large-scale production, a dramatic decrease from $1,415 per kWh in 2008.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2022

EVs are a relatively small part of the overall market for cars and trucks, but they make up nearly 80% of the demand for lithium-ion batteries, far outpacing devices like laptops and phones. For one, they can prevent the growth of dendrites, stalactite-like spikes of lithium that can form on a battery’s electrodes.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2021

The South Korea-based company says its batteries’ advantages over lithium ion include less risk of ignition and the ease of sourcing vanadium. The latter is an important selling point, as electric vehicle makers face a potential shortage of lithium ion batteries. VIB cannot be as compact as lithium ion.

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