Lead for grid storage.
A century-old battery keeps its place on the grid’s list of options. Not out of sentiment, but because grid storage rewards what lead is good at.
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Lead is already 67% recycled. What that means for lithium mining.
Miners know the argument about recycling. Lead is the industry that already ran the experiment, and the result should change how the others plan.
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Three of the West’s Significant Moves Into Lithium
Three significant Western moves into lithium were made by companies with long histories in lead. The pattern says something about where battery-making capability actually resides.
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Most of the world’s lead now comes from recycling, not mines
For most battery metals, large-scale recycling is still being built. For one, recycling quietly became the main source of supply, and almost nobody noticed the moment it happened.
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EV’s Second Battery
The EV was supposed to end the lead battery’s century in the car. Open the bonnet of almost any electric vehicle and you’ll find a low-voltage battery anyway, doing a job the big battery cannot safely do.
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Why lead is the only recycled content target that never rises
From 2031 the EU sets minimum recycled content for four battery materials. Three of them go up in 2036. One does not, and the reason says something about how far ahead one part of this industry already is.
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A third of data centre operators still use lead batteries in their UPS
The AI boom is the fastest growing power story in the world, and the batteries standing behind it are not all new. The oldest rechargeable chemistry is still in the room, and some of the most credible evidence comes from a competitor.
