Thanks to a new type of airflow booster for ionic wind, completely new fields of application are opening up for the start-up Ionic Wind Technologies. In the future, the patented technology will be used primarily for cooling data centers and high-performance electronics. Data centers consume vast amounts of energy—about 40% of it for cooling microprocessors […]
Lithium News
New method for sustainable lithium extraction could reduce emissions by 75%
With an electric current and hydrogen peroxide, researchers at Penn State have developed a more efficient way to extract lithium, a key component in the batteries used in electric vehicles and portable electric devices, directly from ore found in the common mineral spodumene. The process could facilitate a 35.6% reduction in cost and a 75.3% […]
LG Energy Solution to continue EV-ESS battery production switching amid ‘market volatilities’
LG Energy Solution is ‘proactively responding to market volatilities’ that have seen the South Korean battery manufacturer’s annual operating profits slide 73.4%. The company said that those responses include continued switching battery cell lines between manufacturing of electric vehicle (EV) and energy storage system (ESS) products as it announced fourth quarter and full-year 2024 financial […]
A $1.2B battery-grade lithium refinery breaks ground in Oklahoma
Stardust Power (Nasdaq: SDST), a US battery-grade lithium product developer, has officially broken ground on its $1.2 billion lithium refinery in Oklahoma, which will be one of the largest in the US. The facility will eventually be able to produce up to 50,000 metric tons per year of battery-grade lithium. January 27, 2025, update: Last month, […]
New ‘single-crystal’ electrode battery tech could power EVs for millions of miles
The electric vehicle industry is on the brink of a major breakthrough with the development of a longer-lasting EV battery featuring single-crystal electrodes. According to new research, this innovation could allow EVs to travel millions of miles—far outlasting the lifespan of the vehicles themselves. The findings published in the Journal of The Electrochemical Society highlight […]
Ordinary Driving Adds More Life To EV Batteries (It’s Official!)
Estimating the lifespan of EV batteries is a tricky but essential task to make the sustainability case for EVs not just firm but unassailable. Apparently, automotive researchers have been doing it wrong all this time. They have based their calculations on laboratory tests, whereas new studies reveal that batteries last longer than anticipated when real-world […]
