While electric cars are clearly beneficial for local air quality wherever they're used, ethical and environmental concerns have been raised over the mining of materials such as lithium and cobalt that ...

Chinese researchers found a way to extract all the lithium ... America's battery recycling industry is growing, but support from the current administration remains unclear. As electric vehicle ...

Global lithium output is on track to triple this decade, but sales of electric SUVs, sports cars and sedans that rose 55% last year threaten to outrun that. Each battery requires about eight ...