High-capacity and reliable rechargeable batteries are a critical component of many devices and even modes of transport. They play a key role in the shift to a greener world. A wide variety of elements ...

A new MIT battery material could offer a more sustainable way to power electric cars. Instead of cobalt or nickel, the new lithium-ion battery includes a cathode based on organic materials. In this ...

Researchers at the University of Tokyo have unveiled a groundbreaking prototype of a cobalt-free lithium-ion battery that promises to revolutionize the electric vehicle industry. This innovation is a ...

There’s been an era-defining race underway between two types of batteries used in electric vehicles: lithium batteries that use cobalt, and ones... Cobalt-free batteries reign in Chinese EVs. Why not ...

Swedish battery maker Northvolt AB has developed its first sodium-ion product, a technology that could cut reliance on scarce raw materials and lay the foundation for the company’s next generation of ...

You might have heard the common claim that electric cars aren’t really green – that their lithium-ion batteries rely on “blood” minerals such as cobalt, mined in terrible conditions. The critique had ...

In a discovery that could reduce or even eliminate the use of cobalt — which is often mined using child labor — in the batteries that power electric cars and other products, scientists at the ...

There’s been an era-defining race underway between two types of batteries used in electric vehicles: lithium batteries that use cobalt, and ones that use iron phosphate. Cobalt, a metal with a ...