Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2023 16:12:46 +0000
Texas is well known for oil due to its large deposits of this resource, which were first discovered in the early 1900s. Since then, the state has been an integral part of the US oil industry and has become one of the world’s largest producers of crude oil, making it a major player in the […]
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2023 13:06:03 +0000
If you remember 2022 (it seems so long ago now), you probably remember the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). If you’re a fan of EVs and you spend much time on social media, you probably saw all of the controversy over the Act’s treatment of battery minerals for EV tax credits. I predicted that the situation […]
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2023 03:13:45 +0000
Lithium, lithium, lithium — as much as we cover the lithium market, there’s much more to cover. The lithium market is jumping. Below are 7 notable lithium stories we haven’t written about before today. Lithium Americas has started construction on its Thacker Pass lithium project located in Nevada. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) provided […]
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2023 01:21:22 +0000
The EV revolution is built on many things, but perhaps nothing else more than lithium. We need lithium for every type of EV battery for every type of vehicle that needs to be electrified. The challenge we’ve talked about for the past few years is that it takes several years to build a lithium extraction […]
Credit to Author: RMI| Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2023 04:17:08 +0000
This article is part of a series about EV batteries and the EV battery supply chain.
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2023 04:58:21 +0000
No matter how many Super Bowl commercials you run about your EV lineup, no matter how much you talk about your EV leadership, you can only sell as many EVs as you have batteries lined up for. That seems simple enough, right? The thing is, there’s a supply crunch not just for batteries, but also […]
Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2023 03:21:33 +0000
Andrew Forrest is a leader in the move away from fossil fuels. He established Fortescue Future Industries (FFFI) to capitalise on and accelerate the transition to a green global economy. Recently, while announcing Fortescue Metals Group’s “best-ever” half-year result he said: “We have … a very rare insight, I think, for a mining company, into […]
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2023 18:45:27 +0000
In late summer, it’s not uncommon for a big storm to send a gush of water down an arroyo, a dry streambed that gets cut by monsoon storms in the Southwest. To the farmers who lived in the Imperial Valley of California in 1905, the weird early summer water that came pouring down some of […]
Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2023 15:31:52 +0000
Stellantis is doubling down on solid-state EV batteries and hedging bets with hydrogen fuel cells.
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2023 20:50:50 +0000
I recently talked with Mangrove Lithium CEO and cofounder Dr. Saad Dara about lithium resources, lithium refining, and localization of the EV battery supply chain for another episode of CleanTech Talk. You can find our CleanTech Talk podcast episodes on Anchor, Apple Podcasts / iTunes, Breaker, Google Podcasts, Overcast, Pocket, Podbean, Radio Public, SoundCloud, Spotify, or Stitcher. In his initial PhD work, Dr. Dara was focused on water […]