Power banks are made of lithium-ion batteries. To say that lithium-ion batteries are prohibited on a plane is not valid. You can carry a power bank on a plane. Yet, they need to be taken or packed ...

A cellphone battery caught fire on a Southwest flight taking off from Denver on Friday, forcing an emergency evacuation. ...

"In terms of multifunctional properties, the new battery is twice as good as its predecessor." Scientists develop ...

More than 100 travelers were forced to evacuate a Southwest flight after a passenger’s cell phone battery burst into flames ...

Narrator: What could a future with electric planes look like? $25 tickets, quieter airports, or even shorter runways. Companies have been betting on battery-powered planes for this cleaner future.

Instead, the plane used an all-electric motor powered by a single battery. Called the e-Genius and built by engineers at the University of Stuttgart, the most remarkable thing about this all ...

The cells were wired to match their maximum power point voltage as closely as possible to the plane’s 3S lithium-ion battery pack, enabling the solar cells to charge the battery directly.

Those risks have been known for many years. After cargo planes carrying loads of lithium-ion batteries crashed in 2010 and 2011, the United Nations' aviation organization considered restricting ...