How Big Batteries Could Prevent Summer Power Blackouts June 17, 2025 By Kyle Stock In any other year, May 14 may well have been an energy disaster in Texas. Temperatures climbed to seasonal levels...
Deadly Landslide in Indonesia’s Nickel Hub Signals Supply Risk April 15, 2025 By Alfred Cang, Annie Lee and Eddie Spence A deadly landslide at a top nickel-producing hub in Indonesia has heightened scrutiny of a method used to extract the...
Hyundai Warns Owners to Park Outside, Recalls 180,000 SUVs September 14, 2020 By Tom Krisher DETROIT — For the second time this month, Hyundai is telling some SUV owners to park outdoors because an electrical...
Battery Maker Disputes APS Report on 2019 Explosion in Arizona July 29, 2020 By Mark Chediak and Heesu Lee An Arizona utility and the South Korean battery maker LG Chem Ltd. are at odds over what caused an explosion...
Woman Sues Uber for $1M, Alleging Sexual Assault by Driver January 10, 2020 PORTLAND, Ore. — A Hillsboro woman is seeking more than $1 million from the ride-hailing company Uber, alleging she was...
California May Go Dark This Summer, and Most Aren’t Ready May 13, 2019 By Mark Chediak and Brian Eckhouse A plan by California’s biggest utility to cut power on high-wind days during the onrushing wildfire season could plunge millions...
Feds Probe New Battery Fires in Chevrolet Volt November 28, 2011 By JOAN LOWY The government is investigating new fires involving the lithium-ion batteries in General Motors Co.’s Chevrolet Volt to assess the fire...
Electric Car Battery Catches Fire During Crash Test November 14, 2011 By JOAN LOWY and TOM KRISHER A Chevrolet Volt that caught fire three weeks after its lithium-ion battery was damaged in a government crash test has...