The new rush for lithium in Africa risks fueling corruption and harming local communities and the environment, investigations have shown. At a Chinese-run lithium mine in Namibia, local workers have complained for months about squalid living...
It is three times larger than the next biggest lithium-ion battery and can power up to 30,000 homes. Elon Musk has said it is “just the beginning.” Tesla activated the world’s biggest lithium-ion battery in Australia...
Preliminary investigations into a Boeing 787 “Dreamliner” that caught fire at London’s Heathrow airport have found “no evidence of a direct causal relationship” with the batteries that left all 787s grounded this year. A British...
