Craig has worked in automotive media for nearly 20 years, producing content for publications ranging from Autoline and AutoGuide to Roadshow by CNET and EV Pulse. Aside from writing, he’s also ...

Believe it or not, the first battery was built in 1800 by Alessandro Volta of Italy. While very basic, consisting of copper discs, a cloth saturated with salt water, and zinc, it was a proof of ...

Laid out left to right to illustrate notable steps in the process of lithium battery recycling are: a pair of lithium iron phosphate batteries; a container of black mass powder obtained from shredding ...

A spent electric vehicle battery pack is, by most accounts, a recycling headache. Cracking one open means dealing with toxic ...

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 ...

Worcester Polytechnic Institute engineering professor Yan Wang (right) in his lab with other researchers. Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute have developed a new way of recycling ...

Mercedes-Benz opened an in-house battery recycling plant. The facility will produce enough materials to make 50,000 new battery modules annually, the company says. EV battery recycling is a niche but ...

Worcester Polytechnic Institute researchers, in collaboration with scientists at Argonne National Laboratory, have developed a new strategy to transform low-value battery waste into a next-generation ...

United Kingdom-based Liberty Recycling Solutions (LRS) has launched an automated recycling process to address discarded lithium-ion batteries in end-of-life vapes, phones and electric vehicles.

The car-carrying ship Morning Midas sank on June 24 following an apparent battery fire in one of the EVs it was transporting from China to Mexico. According to coverage in The Maritime Executive, the ...

The technologies powering the clean-energy transition, from electric vehicles to artificial intelligence data centers, all rely on lithium-ion batteries. But those batteries do not last forever. Other ...