SAN LEANDRO, Calif. (KGO) -- For months 7 on Your Side has been reporting on the dangers of lithium batteries. They've exploded without warning in some hoverboards, smartphones, laptops and ...
LAFD: battery fires are surging — 45 per week — and the department wants UL‑style rules and more hazmat staff.
Researchers at Michigan State University are using wood waste to make safety improvements to batteries people use every day.
An exploding lithium-ion battery in an illegal e-bike repair shop in the basement of a home in Queens sparked a huge fire that tore through the single-family house, FDNY officials said Tuesday.
We've become increasingly reliant on lithium-ion batteries. In their various shapes and sizes, they can power everything from smartphones to EVs and have proven invaluable for their capacity to charge ...
There is growing danger in what people are throwing out after a lithium-ion battery burned and exploded at Edmonton’s dump.
A spine-chilling video showed a man- clueless of consequences- chewing on a lithium phone battery– only for the battery to ...
A 76-year-old grandmother was killed when an e-bike battery exploded like a “blowtorch” inside a Queens pizzeria on the Fourth of July – trapping her as she tried to leave the bathroom, the FDNY said.
Why lithium batteries in our phones and laptops keep failing us - and how to lower that risk ...