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Battery Fires Put Ports at Risk
Lithium-ion battery fires are becoming a ‘new normal’ that consumers accept, albeit it with an extremely low likelihood. But they…
Beware Substandard Lithium-Ion Batteries
Manufacturing standards watchdog, Lumafield, recently completed a study of 1,000 lithium-ion batteries. The results revealed manufacturing defects in low-cost and…
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The International Marine Contractors Association published a post on November 7, 2025, concerning smoke from a UPS aboard a ship.…
Lithium-ion batteries have been the future of energy storage for the past decade. This has been their role by default,…
Batteries could leap forward dramatically this decade, after virtually marking time this century despite copious research. The problem has been lithium-ion…
Lithium-ion batteries (li-ion) are at the core of virtually every electric vehicle, laptop and smartphone, despite occasional fires. They also…