China set out to dominate the electric vehicle age and largely succeeded, but the breakneck expansion has now produced a glut of batteries, idle factories, and a new wave of crime around the metals ...

There are plenty of different reasons why electric vehicles haven't yet taken off in certain markets the way automakers and government regulators once hoped they would. Indeed, there may be more EVs ...

Companies in China claim they can now recover 99.6% of the nickel, manganese, and cobalt from an end-of-life EV battery. They don't make it clear if these are pilot program numbers or if that's what ...

As early electric cars age out, hundreds of thousands of used batteries are flooding the market, fueling a gray recycling economy even as Beijing and big manufacturers scramble to build a more orderly ...

EV fires, notoriously difficult to extinguish once they start, remain one of the toughest challenges for carmakers. Engineers continue racing to design battery packs resilient enough to survive ...

BRUSSELS, Dec 3 (Reuters) - The European Commission plans to restrict exports of rare earth waste and battery scrap that can be recycled from early 2026 as part of its push to secure critical raw ...