While the EU has a strong position in the intermediate and assembly phases of making electrolysers, with a more than 50% global market share, it relies heavily on China for fuel cells and lithium-ion batteries crucial for electric vehicles.
Supercapacitors are charged like a battery but release their energy more rapidly – and some of their components can now be built from old plastic bottles
ExxonMobil has paid $100 million to lease roughly 120,000 acres in southern Arkansas to extract a mineral increasingly vital to modern technology: lithium.
John Bannister Goodenough, the American co-inventor of Lithium-ion batteries and a co-winner of 2019 Nobel prize for Chemistry, has passed away. He was just a month short of turning 101. Goodenough also played a significant role in the development of Random Access Memory (RAM) for computers.
Among the many changes, the new rules would require batteries in consumer devices like smartphones to be easily removable and replaceable. That's far from the case today...