Construction of the first large-scale direct lithium extraction plant in the U.S. began last month in California's "Lithium Valley"— igniting potential to transform the Salton Sea area into a ...

Companies developing technologies to chemically extract lithium directly from brine promise to obtain the battery raw material in a way that has less environmental impact than the large evaporation ...

Lithium extraction technologies have evolved significantly in response to the growing demand for this critical element in energy storage and electric vehicle applications. Traditional methods have ...

While lithium extraction technologies generally focus on ways to get the essential metal out of the ground, there's another source to mine: existing batteries that no longer work. A new technique ...

Anhalt, long known forgas drilling and little else, have taken on new significance. Deep below the surface, brine once ...

The county also happens to be sitting on enough lithium to produce nearly 400 million batteries, sufficient to completely revamp the American auto fleet to electric propulsion. Even better, that ...

DAYTON, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Xerion Advanced Battery Corp., a privately held manufacturer of lithium-ion batteries with a vision to revolutionize the energy industry through the development of ...

You know how EVs and practically anything else that runs on lithium batteries aren't really all that 'green' because producing lithium takes a huge toll on the planet? Scientists at Stanford say ...

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has committed to a $1.4 billion loan for a project that will use an emerging technology to separate lithium from geothermal brines in California. The agency says the ...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Gradiant’s spin-out, alkaLi, is leading the direct lithium extraction (DLE) and production market with its EC 2 technology, which has demonstrated a groundbreaking 97% lithium ...