Portland Fire & Rescue responded to reports of lithium-ion batteries "exploding" and catching fire on the fourth floor of the engineering building at Portland State University. Crews arrived on the ...

Garbage truck fires are never ideal, but they are usually not catastrophic. When a fire broke out on December 6 in the back of a garbage truck making its Friday rounds through the Chicago suburb of ...

Lithium-ion (li-ion) batteries are everywhere. They are in personal electronics, power tools, micro-mobility devices, electric vehicles (EVs) and energy storage systems (ESS). Researchers around the ...

On a recent trip, I boarded a subway car with a delivery worker, his e-bike and two lithium-ion batteries. I immediately recognized he was using an uncertified, untested brand of battery and moved to ...