Environmental impacts of lithium-ion batteries
Japan extends embargo on Russia, banning the export of 164 more items
Among the products are lithium-ion batteries, car exhausts and oil for car engines
Electric car makers race for supplies of lithium for batteries
Threatened by possible shortages of lithium for electric car batteries, automakers are racing to lock in supplies of the once-obscure "white gold" in a politically and environmentally fraught competition from China to Nevada to Chile.