Burning Teslas Add to Toxic Pollution Delaying L.A. Return

The L.A. wildfires have taken at least 27 lives and destroyed thousands of homes As the smoke clears from devastating Los Angeles wildfires, efforts to clean up the affected areas are being complicated by burnt-out electric and hybrid vehicles and home-battery storage systems. Lithium batteries from Tesla Inc., along with those from other carmakers, have …

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Giant Batteries Are Transforming the World’s Electrical Grids

Global energy storage capacity has tripled in recent years, thanks to an industry that barely existed a decade ago. Illustration: Jay Daniel Wright for Bloomberg Businessweek By David R Baker Inside an unmarked stucco building in a Silicon Valley office park, more than 1,000 black metal cabinets, each about the size of a fridge, line …

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Fire at Massive Battery Plant in California Forces Evacuations

As of late Thursday, a few dozen people were at a temporary evacuation centre This image from video shows flames rising after a major fire erupted Thursday afternoon at the Moss Landing Power Plant, located about about 124 kilometres south of San Francisco, Thursday, Jan.16, 2025. Photo by KSBW via AP MOSS LANDING, Calif. — …

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