How to Use lithium-ion battery in a Sentence

lithium-ion battery

noun
  • There is no round lithium-ion battery.
    Morgan Korn, ABC News, 28 Dec. 2025
  • Crews said the fire was caused by a lithium-ion battery on a bike.
    Brandon Downs, CBS News, 3 May 2026
  • That wears out a lithium-ion battery even faster than normal.
    PCMAG, 13 June 2022
  • Fires from lithium-ion batteries can spread fast and are tough to put out.
    Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 30 June 2023
  • The world’s biggest lithium-ion battery sits a stone’s throw away.
    The Economist, 8 Mar. 2018
  • So lithium-ion batteries can do the same.
    Dana Taylor, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Each glove runs on a rechargeable lithium-ion battery and lasts up to eight hours on a full charge.
    Theresa Holland, Travel + Leisure, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The crash damaged the front of the car's lithium-ion battery case, which caused the fire to start.
    Maria Pasquini, Peoplemag, 9 Feb. 2023
  • This is far from the first time faulty lithium-ion batteries have led to recalls.
    Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 20 June 2019
  • These minerals were once part of lithium-ion battery cells and will be once again.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 23 May 2024
  • The price of lithium-ion battery cells fell 97 percent over the past three decades.
    New York Times, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Its lithium-ion battery will go for six hours at 50% volume and recharges in four hours.
    Gregg Ellman, Star Tribune, 24 Mar. 2021
  • That is close to the figure obtained by banks of lithium-ion batteries.
    The Economist, 28 Nov. 2019
  • The tariffs on steel and aluminum will raise the cost of lithium-ion batteries.
    Carlo Versano, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 June 2025
  • The story of the lithium-ion battery shows that Pasteur was right.
    IEEE Spectrum, 30 July 2023
  • Some of the cars that crashed and remained on land contained paint and lithium-ion batteries.
    Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Recent years have seen the construction of large lithium-ion battery farms that do just that.
    IEEE Spectrum, 12 June 2023
  • All the clean, green energy is stored in the onboard lithium-ion battery.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Just as more and more lithium-ion batteries were used in devices, the mines had come roaring back to life.
    Nicolas Niarchos, Vanity Fair, 20 Feb. 2026
  • The crash damaged the high-voltage lithium-ion battery, where the fire began.
    Tom Krisher, ajc, 10 May 2021
  • The rechargeable lithium-ion battery packs stow neatly out of the way via snaps on the inside calf of each sock.
    Mike Richard, Men's Health, 31 Oct. 2022
  • The cause of the fire was determined to be a lithium-ion battery that powered a scooter.
    Bradford Betz, Fox News, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Flynn said the city has seen nearly 200 fires this year caused by a lithium-ion battery.
    Sophie Reardon, CBS News, 5 Nov. 2022
  • At the front of each ski is a lithium-ion battery pack, which is connected to an electric motor at the back.
    Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 16 Feb. 2025
  • The rechargeable lithium-ion battery pack is rated to last up to six months before needing to be recharged.
    John R. Delaney, PC Magazine, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Covina residents said their concerns stem from lithium-ion battery fires, which could be tough to put out.
    Tom Wait, CBS News, 24 June 2026
  • It’s powered by a set of AA lithium-ion batteries that last up to two years.
    Bestreviews, Mercury News, 17 July 2026
  • That scale makes the economics of lithium-ion batteries hard to compete with.
    ArsTechnica, 28 May 2026
  • In the clip, the dog sits on the couch, chewing on a heated skiing glove powered by a lithium-ion battery.
    Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 12 Jan. 2026
  • The best feature is the dual lithium-ion batteries, and the top speed of 19 mph.
    Popular Science, 10 Sep. 2019

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