Fareham firms are working together to combat exploding lithium-ion batteries at waste and recycling handling centres. Barnbrook Systems, Flair, and TJ Waste & Recycling will trial new technology in ...

Lithium-ion batteries power many everyday items like smartphones, vapes, toys, tools and e-scooters. But if not handled ...

Real-time images have captured the chain reaction that causes lithium-ion batteries to explode. . The process can occur in just milliseconds: Overheated battery modules create a domino effect, ...

It was time for a family photo at a recent holiday gathering in Flat Rock when a young person whipped out a portable ...

Exploding e-bike and e-scooter batteries emitting "jet-like flames" and toxic fumes pose an increasingly lethal danger, a probe after a series of fire deaths has heard. An inquiry into the dangers of ...

The explosion early on a June morning ignited a blaze that engulfed a New York City shop filled with motorized bicycles and their volatile lithium-ion batteries. Billowing smoke quickly killed four ...

Vape users have been warned not to throw their old devices away in bins, after new figures revealed exploding “zombie batteries” are still piling up in waste centres across the UK. When devices are ...

Researchers at Stanford University have discovered a solution to the lithium-ion battery’s downfall—its propensity for self-combustion. The new technology could prevent the kinds of fires that have ...

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Two-trailer carrying 15 tonnes of lithium ion batteries caught alight near Yass on Saturday morning, closing traffic in both directions ...

Two batteries were heated to 250C and observed using both a thermal camera and a powerful synchrotron X-ray, to trace how faults arise and spread. The researchers stressed that these are extreme ...