Police closed Wiltshire north of Chagrin Boulevard for several hours starting around 9:30 a.m. Aug. 7 after the storage compartment of a village recycling truck burst into flames, leading to a likely ...

To prove that, Mercedes-Benz crashed an eActros 600 truck on purpose, simulating a car ramming into one side of the electric ...

The transition to lithium batteries was meant to be straightforward: Replace hard-to-maintain lead-acid batteries with “maintenance free” options such as lithium or low/no maintenance lead acid ...

A garbage truck fire in Lake Forest caused by a lithium-ion battery was quickly extinguished with no injuries or damage ...

MIDLAND, Mich. (WNEM) - The potential fiery danger posed by lithium-ion batteries was realized on Monday, May 6 during a garbage run in Midland. A fire chief told TV5 why the batteries require extra ...

COLUMBUS — Authorities evacuated an area of Columbus for several hours on Thursday out of fear that a fire in truck’s trailer could have caused lithium ion batteries to explode. Police began ...

Rumpke is asking central Ohio residents to properly dispose of electronics with lithium-ion batteries after a laptop apparently caught fire inside one of its garbage trucks, forcing the driver to dump ...

Arlington Heights Fire Department officials believe the Dec. 6 garbage truck fire and explosion that injured three first responders and strew debris blocks away was caused by a lithium ion battery ...

Daimler Truck will buy a 9% stake in German engineering firm Manz for 30.6 million euros ($32.7 million) to join forces in the area of battery production, Manz said on Monday.

Toyota is still on track to launch its first solid-state battery-powered vehicle within the next two to three years.