Currently, lithium ion batteries in micromobility products, which are increasingly associated with deadly fires, are governed only by voluntary standards. From January 2021 through November 2022, at least 19 people were killed by micromobility fires or overheating incidents in the U.S. Thirteen people in New York City have died this year in lithium ion battery fires. The CPSC wrote a letter to more than 2,000 manufacturers and importers last December imploring them to comply with voluntary UL standards for battery
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POLITICO Europe’s most-read stories of 2023 – POLITICO
Well, here we are folks, at the end of another turbulent year.
When we put this list together at the end of 2022, its contents largely covered something many of us thought we would not see again in our lifetime: a major war in Europe. Now, we are grappling with two wars in our immediate neighborhood, as the slaughter drags on in Ukraine, and conflict rages between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
In Ukraine, the long-awaited counteroffensive against Russia, which
Oil industry rides into climate summit bigger than ever – POLITICO
This article is part of the Road to COP special report, presented by SQM.
WASHINGTON — Eight years after Paris, the oil business is bigger than ever.
Profits are soaring. Production is climbing — and marking a record year in the United States. The industry is even poised to gain from the crusade to rein in climate pollution, including the billions of dollars in incentives that U.S. President Joe Biden is offering for wind farms, battery minerals and carbon-carrying pipelines.
Who’s who at COP28 – POLITICO
This article is part of the Road to COP special report, presented by SQM.
The annual U.N. climate summit that starts November 30 has become one of the biggest diplomatic setpieces in the global political calendar.
Organizers are expecting more than 70,000 people to descend upon Dubai’s Expo City: activists, billionaires, presidents, Indigenous leaders, business executives, monarchs and diplomats from every corner of the world. A few will hold sway over the outcome of the talks. Some will make noise
Automakers, FDNY want more safety regs on lithium ion batteries
Climate activists have a new target: Civilians – POLITICO
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Animation by Dato Parulava
BRUSSELS — Claude stood watch on the dark, glistening street as Samuel crouched down to jam a lentil into the tire valve of an SUV. “Of course, it will piss them off,” Claude said. An hour later, the vehicle would be slumped against the curb on a flat tire. By the end of the night, the Belgian cell of the
A wonk’s guide to the Swedish EU presidency policy agenda – POLITICO
Sweden’s policy smorgasbord is already groaning with some chewy (and even unpalatable) items — but the Commission keeps adding more to its plate.
By this point in a five-year EU election cycle, the vast majority of new policy proposals have already arrived from the EU executive branch, and are already on their legislative journey. But as Sweden takes over the rotating Council presidency with a year-and-a-half left until the next European election, that’s not the case.
With massive official bandwith
Iron batteries might provide the long-term storage to clean up the energy grid
4.41 And that’s a wrap for today! Thanks so much for joining us on Day 2 of EmTech. I know I’ve learned loads, and hope you did too and will join us for our final sessions tomorrow.
4.33 The Inflation Reduction Act is a major boon for the energy storage business. “There’s $380 billion of goodness in there for our industry” that will help catalyze developments in long-term battery storage, McDermott says.
That money will likely help meet the massive … Read more
Could Coal Waste Be Used to Make Sustainable Batteries?
On a recent afternoon, near the headwaters of Deckers Creek, in West Virginia, Paul Ziemkiewicz, the biological scientist who directs the Water Research Institute at West Virginia University, squatted by a blood-red trickle seeping from a hillside. The color, he pointed out, was the telltale sign of water contaminated by a form of coal waste called acid mine drainage, which poisons aquatic life. For decades, this contaminated water has devastated Appalachia, killing many of the creeks and rivers that lie
How the Greens duped Christian Lindner into killing ‘das Auto’ – POLITICO
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BERLIN — Christian Lindner needed a victory.
He didn’t get one.
With his approval ratings in free fall, Germany’s hard-charging finance minister resolved last month to win back his restive liberal base by rescuing that ur-symbol of German ingenuity and prosperity: the internal combustion engine.
In a calculated show aimed at the faithful of his Free Democratic Party (FDP), Lindner vowed to block a European Commission proposal to halt new registrations of fossil-fuel-powered
Audi to provide batteries from old electric cars for RICKSHAWS in India
One of the biggest concerns about the widescale switch to electric cars is what happens to batteries once they are deemed unfit for use in passenger models, with experts warning of ‘waste mountains’ of the components.
Car manufacturers have set out their own ‘second-life’ projects for batteries, such as being used as back-up generators for buildings and to power transportable chargers for other vehicles.
Audi, on the other hand, has a different plan.
It has this week announced a project