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    July 2025
    Company Produces High-Purity Lithium Hydroxide from Used EV Batteries

    Company Produces High-Purity Lithium Hydroxide from Used EV Batteries

    ­The battery recycling startup Cylib has hit a breakthrough in curbing e-waste, producing high-purity lithium hydroxide from used EV batteries. With the exponential increase in batteries necessary for the voluminous devices making up the Internet of Things, we’ve a potential environmental disaster on the horizon
    Date:
    07/28/2025
    Meta Announces 5 GW Data Center to Power AI

    Meta Announces 5 GW Data Center to Power AI

    ­Meta is poised to stay ahead of the highly-competitive AI computing race – the multinational technology company, led by Mark Zuckerberg, just announced a new data center (“Hyperion”), which will allegedly supply Meta’s new AI lab with five gigawatts (GW) of computational power. To train and power
    Date:
    07/21/2025
    EU Project Aims to Produce Viable Lithium-Sulfur Batteries

    EU Project Aims to Produce Viable Lithium-Sulfur Batteries

    The EU is doing everything it can to empower the next generation of batteries. The recently launched EU research project TALISSMAN (Technologies for Advanced Lithium-Sulphur batteries towards Safe and Sustainable Mobility Applications) “to lead the development of safe, sustainable, high-performance, and cost-e
    Date:
    07/14/2025
    1/5 of Surveyed UK Drivers Think you Can Get an Electric Shock from Washing EVs

    1/5 of Surveyed UK Drivers Think you Can Get an Electric Shock from Washing EVs

    ­Of all the reasons to refrain from going electric, this is probably the dumbest one. Don’t get me wrong. There’s plenty of good reasons to not make the switch – range anxiety (though this is rapidly being stamped out), price concerns, and even apprehension over ghastly, nigh-unquenchable EV car fires.
    Date:
    07/07/2025

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