A fire is seen at Togari Clean Center, a waste disposal facility in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, in February 2023. (Photo courtesy of Toyota City Hall) TOKYO -- Fires caused by lithium-ion or li-ion ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. James Morris covers the rapidly growing world of electric vehicles. The media war against electric vehicles goes through phases, ...

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology adopted a new national safety standard for EV batteries. The new regulation mandates that EV batteries should prevent fires and explosions even ...

Lithium-ion batteries power everything from consumer electronics to medical devices to automobiles – and their use is only growing. Some 3 billion batteries are sold annually in the country, according ...

"Here in Australia we've had 11 plugin electric car battery fires nationally ever. That's the total number that we've ever had. These are primarily due to things like high-speed collisions. We've had ...