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New Battery Recycling Center Will Have A Big Impact on Europe

May 14, 2023 admin batteries, battery recycling, clean transport, cobalt, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, Europe, glencore, Italy, li-cycle, lithium, lithium-ion batteries, nickel, recycling

Credit 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. […]

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Ford Inks $4.5 Billion Battery Materials Deal, May Reprise The Capri Name For New EV

April 3, 2023 admin battery materials, byd, cars, clean transport, cobalt, electric cars, Electric vehicles, ev batteries, ford, indonesia, nickel, tesla

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.

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Honda’s Working On More US-Based Battery Production

March 29, 2023 admin batteries, battery recycling, China, clean transport, cobalt, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, green economy, honda, inflation reduction act of 2022., investment, lg, lg energy solution, lithium, lithium-ion batteries, Manufacturing, nickel, policy & politics, subsidies

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 […]

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Australia’s Lithium Export Earnings Expected To Exceed $16 Billion In 2022–2023

December 30, 2022 admin Australia, batteries, battery minerals, clean transport, Copper, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev minerals, lithium, lithium-ion batteries, minerals, Mining, nickel

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2022 15:23:00 +0000

That’s up from $5 billion in 2021.

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Panasonic Strikes Battery Minerals Deal In Canada

November 25, 2022 admin Australia, batteries, battery materials, Canada, cars, clean transport, cobalt, electric cars, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, gm, graphite, nickel, panasonic, Volkswagen

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 […]

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Are There Enough Materials To Manufacture All The Electric Vehicles Needed?

November 23, 2022 admin batteries, battery metals, battery minerals, battery recycling, battery reuse, cars, clean transport, cobalt, electric cars, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev batteries, lithium-ion batteries, nickel

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 […]

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Recent Battery Deals Could Indicate Manufacturers Are Up To The Task Congress Gave Them

October 18, 2022 admin Australia, batteries, China, clean transport, cleantech news, cobalt, controlled thermal resources, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, gm, gme resources, lithium, lithium-ion batteries, nickel, policy & politics, queensland pacific metals, stellantis, subsidies, vulcan energy.

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 […]

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The Really Big Battery Deal In The IRA That People Are Missing

September 25, 2022 admin batteries, China, clean transport, cobalt, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, graphite, inflation reduction act of 2022., Joe Biden, lithium, lithium-ion batteries, natural graphite, nickel, policy & politics, subsidies, synthetic graphite

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, […]

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Talon Metals Finds More Nickel in USA

September 9, 2022 admin batteries, clean transport, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, lithium-ion batteries, nickel, talon metals, talon metals corp, tamarack nickel project

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 […]

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Lithium Spot Prices Up ~900% Since January 2020

September 4, 2022 admin batteries, benchmark mineral intelligence, clean transport, cobalt, cobalt prices, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev batteries, ev battery metals, ev battery minerals, iron phosphate, iron phosphate prices, lithium, lithium prices, lithium-ion batteries, manganese, manganese prices, natural graphite, nickel, nickel prices, synthetic graphite

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2022 18:57:46 +0000

In July 2020, I interviewed the EV battery mineral experts at RK Equity for the first time. The core story was clear: there was growing demand for electric vehicles, but not enough investment in EV battery mineral mining, and lithium mining in particular. The result was as predictable as could be for an Econ 101 […]

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