Browsing: battery

Lithium ion battery waste is becoming a growing operational challenge for the waste industry as rechargeable batteries spread across consumer electronics, power tools, e bikes and household equipment.

On April 28, 2025, Spain and Portugal lost power. Two full European Union member states went dark within seconds, and…

The 106-foot demonstrator flew for 27 minutes on about $5 of electricity, a genuine engineering result. But the certification target…

A claim that building 1 gigawatt-hour of utility-scale battery storage consumes roughly 450 gigawatt-hours of energy before it delivers a…

Approximately 25% of new car sales in Europe are electric today. To meet the EU’s proposed target of 46% electricity…

Three sectors, steel, organic chemicals, and cement, account for roughly a quarter of all emissions covered by the EU Emissions…

Renewable electricity generation grew by 9.8% in 2024, its fastest annual rate in recent years and more than seven times…

Tesla reported a federal tax bill of zero dollars for 2025, continuing a pattern in which the company has owed…

Only 0.3% of electric vehicles built since 2022 have required a battery replacement, according to Recurrent Analytics data, compared with…

Germany’s grid-scale battery storage capacity stood at over 1.5 GW across 207 commissioned projects as of June 2025 and was…