Getting from here to there is becoming increasingly more sustainable, in part, by electric cars. “All the cars are getting electrified,” Don Hillebrand, with the Advanced Powertrain Research Facility ...

Starting your car means relying on a 12-volt battery that will eventually need to be replaced. Rather than ending up in a landfill, it's important to find the best way to dispose of the battery, or ...

Global demand for lithium is rapidly increasing due to the growth of electric vehicles, with current recycling rates of lithium-ion batteries being significantly low. Recycling lithium-ion batteries ...

Even degraded EV batteries can be valuable for stationary energy storage applications.

EV battery recycling is essential for resource conservation, recovering key materials like lithium and cobalt to support the ...

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 ...

Learn what happens when lithium-ion batteries go in the trash, the real fire risks, and where to recycle batteries and ...

This week, I discuss the urgent environmental issue of recycling lithium-ion batteries, which are essential for mobile phones and electric vehicles. Currently, only 5% of these batteries are recycled.