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lithium ion batteries

Why General Motors Is Betting on Sodium-Ion Batteries

The automaker and Peak Energy are developing an alternative to lithium-ion batteries for energy storage.

By Dan Gearino

Peak Energy completed this sodium-ion battery system in Watkins, Colo., in 2025. Credit: Courtesy of Peak Energy
Mining trucks load lithium sulfate in Chile’s Atacama Salt Flat on July 29, 2024. Credit: Lucas Aguayo Araos/Anadolu via Getty Images

How to Think About the Extractive Problem of Lithium Mining

Interview by Paloma Beltran, Living on Earth

A pipe discharges liquid waste from Tesla’s lithium refinery plant into a ditch on Feb. 13 in Robstown, Texas. Credit: Steve Ray/Nueces County Drainage District No. 2

South Texas Officials Didn’t Know Tesla Was Discharging Lithium Refinery Wastewater Into Local Ditch

By Arcelia Martin

Remnants of the a massive battery fire that took place a year ago lie behind a guarded gate at Moss Landing Power Plant. Credit: Claire Barber/Inside Climate News

A Year Out From One of the World’s Largest Battery Facility Fires

By Claire Barber

EV batteries connected to chargers are a potentially vast resource that could be utilized by the grid. Credit: Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images

Vehicle-to-Grid Power Is Becoming a Reality, But Why Isn’t Progress Faster?

By Dan Gearino

Flames and smoke rise from the Moss Landing Energy Storage Facility after a fire erupted on Jan. 16 in Monterey Bay, Calif. Credit: Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images

Moss Landing Battery Fire Leads to Health Fears, Evidence of Contamination and Concerns About Overreaction

By Dan Gearino, Kiley Price

A fire erupts at the Moss Landing Energy Storage Facility on Jan. 16 in Monterey County, Calif. Credit: Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images

Making Sense of the Giant Fire that Could Set Back Energy Storage

By Dan Gearino

A fracking drilling pad operates in the Marcellus Shale formation near Robinson Township, Pa. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

Pennsylvania’s Fracking Wastewater Contains a ‘Shocking’ Amount of the Critical Clean Energy Mineral Lithium

By Kiley Bense

Workers view an assembly process at Freyr Battery's technology and development center in Mo i Rana, Norway. Credit: Phillip Navin/Freyr Battery

A Battery Company CEO on the ‘Massive’ Effect of the Inflation Reduction Act

By Dan Gearino

A Li-Cycle employee oversees lithium-ion batteries on a conveyor belt at the company’s plant near Rochester, New York. Photo courtesy of Li-Cycle.

Inside Clean Energy: Here Come the Battery Recyclers

By Dan Gearino

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