There are plenty of different reasons why electric vehicles haven't yet taken off in certain markets the way automakers and government regulators once hoped they would. Indeed, there may be more EVs ...

China set out to dominate the electric vehicle age and largely succeeded, but the breakneck expansion has now produced a glut of batteries, idle factories, and a new wave of crime around the metals ...

Lithium-ion batteries carry a real fire risk during transport and storage. Damage, overheating or exposure to saltwater can ...

As early electric cars age out, hundreds of thousands of used batteries are flooding the market, fueling a gray recycling economy even as Beijing and big manufacturers scramble to build a more orderly ...

Riccardo Maddalena receives funding from UKRI EPSRC. Mehdi Chougan does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, ...

EV fires, notoriously difficult to extinguish once they start, remain one of the toughest challenges for carmakers. Engineers continue racing to design battery packs resilient enough to survive ...

The global economy's increasing reliance on lithium-ion batteries is creating geopolitical risk due to China's dominant ...

In a new report released this week, the United Nations said the amount of electronics waste worldwide is growing even as efforts to recycle it may be falling even further behind targets. The Global ...