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Li L series

The Li L series is a family of four extended-range electric SUVs built by Li Auto: the L6, L7, L8, and L9, ordered by size and seating.

Li L6 (理想L6)

The Li L6 (理想L6) is a five-seat premium family SUV by Chinese automaker Li Auto, launched in 2024 as its smallest, least expensive extended-range electric model.

Li L8

The Li L8 (理想L8) is a large extended-range electric SUV from the Chinese automaker Li Auto, launched in 2022 as the successor to the Li ONE.

Li Mega (理想MEGA)

The Li Mega, also known as Li Auto MEGA, is a large battery-electric minivan from Chinese automaker Li Auto, launched in 2024 as its first pure electric vehicle.

Li-Cycle

Li-Cycle was a Canadian lithium-ion battery recycling company founded in Toronto in 2016, acquired by Glencore in 2025 and now operating as Glencore Battery Recycling.

Li-Fi

Li-Fi, or light fidelity, is a bidirectional wireless communication technology that transmits data over light instead of radio waves; the term was coined by Harald Haas of the University of Edinburgh.

Li‐Dong Zhao

Li-Dong Zhao (赵立东) is a Chinese materials scientist and dean at Beihang University known for record-setting thermoelectric performance in tin selenide single crystals since 2014.

Li10GeP2S12

Li10GeP2S12, commonly abbreviated LGPS, is a lithium superionic conductor reported in 2011 by researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology and Toyota as a leading electrolyte for all-solid-state lithium batteries.

Li2ZrCl6

Li2ZrCl6, lithium zirconium chloride, is a rare-earth-free halide solid electrolyte for all-solid-state lithium batteries, reported in 2021 with about 0.4 to 1 mS cm−1 conductivity and raw-material cost far below Li3YCl6.

Li3OCl

Li3OCl, or lithium oxychloride, is a lithium-rich antiperovskite compound proposed as a solid electrolyte for all-solid-state lithium-metal batteries, drawing attention after a 2012 report of near-liquid-electrolyte ionic conductivity, though preparing anhydrous samples remains disputed.

Li3PS4

Li3PS4, lithium thiophosphate, often abbreviated LPS, is a lithium phosphorus sulfide solid electrolyte with three crystalline phases, studied as the separator in all-solid-state lithium batteries.

Li6PS5Cl

Li6PS5Cl, often abbreviated LPSC or LPSCl, is a lithium argyrodite solid electrolyte discovered in 2008 at the University of Siegen and a leading separator material for all-solid-state lithium batteries.

Li7P3S11

Li7P3S11 is a sulfide glass-ceramic lithium superionic conductor, the first of its kind reported in 2005, used as a solid electrolyte in all-solid-state lithium batteries.

Liang Wenfeng

Liang Wenfeng (梁文锋, born 1985) is a Chinese engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded the hedge fund High-Flyer and then DeepSeek, the Hangzhou AI lab whose low-cost open-weight R1 model shook global tech markets in January 2025.

Liang Zhang

Liang Zhang is a Chinese materials scientist who studies battery electrodes with in-situ synchrotron X-ray spectroscopy and has been a professor at Soochow University since 2019.

Liang-Shih Fan

Liang-Shih Fan is a chemical engineer at The Ohio State University known for fluidization and chemical looping clean-energy processes, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2001.

Liangbing Hu

Liangbing Hu, born 1982, is a Chinese-born materials scientist and endowed professor of electrical engineering at Yale, known for Superwood, ultrafast high-temperature sintering, and co-founding InventWood.

Liangfang Zhang

Liangfang Zhang (张良方) is a Chinese-American nanoengineer and professor at the University of California, San Diego, known for inventing cell membrane-coated nanoparticles, a biomimetic drug delivery platform.

Lianghekou hydroelectric plant

Lianghekou hydroelectric plant (两河口混合式抽水蓄能电站) is a 3,000 MW station on the Yalong River in Sichuan, China, being expanded with 1,200 MW of pumped storage for 4,200 MW combined.

Lianzhou Wang

Lianzhou Wang (王连洲, born 1971) is a Chinese-born Australian materials scientist who set a 2020 quantum dot solar cell efficiency record and chairs energy materials research at Hong Kong PolyU.

Liaocheng Zhonghua power station

The Liaocheng Zhonghua power station is a 1,200 MW coal-fired power station in Liaocheng, Shandong, China, with two 600 MW units commissioned in 2002 and 2003.

Liaohe Oil Field

Liaohe Oil Field (辽河油田) is a PetroChina oil field in Panjin, Liaoning, China's largest onshore heavy oil production base, producing about 10 million tons in 2024.

Liaoning Gas Pipeline Network

The Liaoning Gas Pipeline Network is the natural gas pipeline system serving Liaoning Province in northeast China, with trunk lines from Qinhuangdao and Dalian to Shenyang.

Liaoning Qingyuan hydroelectric plant

The Liaoning Qingyuan hydroelectric plant is a 1,800 MW pumped-storage station in Fushun, Liaoning, China, fully operating since January 2025 and the largest in Northeast China.

Liat Air

Liat Air, also known as LIAT20, is a regional airline based in Antigua that flies routes across the Eastern Caribbean. It began flying in 2024.

Libby Dam

Libby Dam is a 422-foot concrete gravity dam on the Kootenai River in northwestern Montana, completed in 1975 and operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

LiberAI (将闲科技)

LiberAI (将闲科技), formally Beijing Jiangxian Technology Co., Ltd., is a Chinese embodied-AI startup founded in December 2025 in Beijing by Liu Songming, developing physical world models for dexterous robotic manipulation.

Liberator (gun)

The FP-45 Liberator was a single-shot .45 ACP pistol that General Motors mass-produced in 1942 as a cheap insurgency weapon to be air-dropped to resistance fighters in Axis-occupied territories.

LIBERO

LIBERO is a simulation benchmark suite of 130 robot manipulation tasks for lifelong robot learning, published at NeurIPS 2023 and now the standard evaluation for vision-language-action models.

Liberty Bell

The Liberty Bell, also called the State House Bell, is a bronze bell cast in 1753 for the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia, known for its large crack.