Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2024 15:20:36 +0000
A new, plant-based source of nickel could help spare the EV battery supply chain from the burden of environmental impacts related to mining.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Thu, 11 May 2023 12:10:17 +0000
Lithium-ion batteries are a rapidly growing technology, used to power everything from our mobile phones to electric vehicles to renewable energy systems. Lithium-ion batteries generally have a much longer lifespan than anti-EV commentators would lead people to believe, and once they’re too degraded for vehicle use, they serve for years more doing stationary energy storage. […]
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2023 17:35:35 +0000
Ford has taken steps to control its battery materials supply chain by securing a supply of nickel with two partners in Indonesia.
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: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2022 15:23:00 +0000
That’s up from $5 billion in 2021.
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2022 18:30:14 +0000
Rare earth minerals and other battery materials are crucial for global politics. As this article explains, China’s power over the worlds clean technology advancements and medical progress came to a head in 2010 when it cut off supplies to Japan. This ultimately left Japan defenseless, and with no choice but to cave on the border […]
Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2022 04:50:55 +0000
The short answer is yes. But this is a complicated question, so let’s dig in further. The transition to electric vehicles (EVs) is necessary to decrease climate-changing emissions. As deployment increases, so will the demand for EV battery materials such as lithium, cobalt, and nickel. These materials are primarily supplied through two sources: 1) newly mined […]
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2022 18:34:53 +0000
A large reason people were hesitant about the most current version of US electric vehicle subsidies was that it wouldn’t provide funding to vehicle makers who rely on China for minerals used in batteries. Some argued that if we only used battery materials from friendly countries, it would either lead to a slower EV adoption […]
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2022 01:08:54 +0000
When it comes to electric vehicles and the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, almost all of the discussion has been around the consumer tax credit for buying an electric vehicle, including the interesting new battery aspects of that. That’s a big topic, but there’s a whole other battery angle separate from the consumer tax credit, […]
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2022 03:50:21 +0000
As we’ve discusses several times here on CleanTechnica, the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 pushes hard for electric vehicles to use batteries that use minerals coming from “friendly” countries, not countries of concern like China or Russia (we’re not on great terms right now). The problem is that most of the minerals in an EV […]