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Minerva Lithium uses absorbent material to change the way we extract lithium

TechCrunch

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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Fisker’s electric Ocean SUV has a rotating center screen

The Verge

When you use your phone and type on it, you hold it like this, and when you take a picture or if you want to watch a movie, you turn the phone around,” Fisker Inc. It’s largely similar to the first prototype that debuted at the 2020 Consumer Electronics Show , though there are a few new standout features — including a 17.1-inch is developing.

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How to Get Long Life Out of Laptop and Cell Phone Batteries

Tech Soup

Dell says that a full life span for a garden-variety lithium-ion laptop battery is 18 to 24 months. Also it doesn't harm lithium-ion batteries to keep your laptop plugged in to AC power most of the time when you're using it because modern chargers are designed to shut off when the battery is fully charged.

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Citing fires, London’s transport agency bans e-scooters on public transit network

The Verge

photo by Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images. The transport agency said the incidents it referenced were caused by “defective lithium-ion batteries which ruptured without warning,” which led to fires that cause toxic smoke. E-scooters have been banned on London’s transport network after several fires.

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Here are the biggest announcements from Volkswagen’s battery event

The Verge

A picture of the unified cell. 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 EV with a traditional battery. pic.twitter.com/OusTHdgwB8 — Jordi Sastre (@jordi_sastr3) March 15, 2021.

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FleetZero looks to capsize the shipping world with electric vessels serving forgotten ports

TechCrunch

If you don’t have to travel several thousand miles uninterrupted, battery-powered shipping starts to make a lot more sense, and actually it’s just one of several puzzle pieces that fit together to form a potentially transformative picture. Standard shipping units.

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Explainer: How a new round of price cuts are reshaping China’s EV market

TechNode

The good: reduced costs, innovation Among the key reasons for the price reductions is the plunging cost of raw materials for EV batteries, as the spot price of battery-grade lithium carbonate fell from more than RMB 500,000 ($69,450) per ton to just over RMB 100,000 throughout the last year.