NEN EXCLUSIVES
I urge all of my fellow eCobalt shareholders to vote NO to a merger with Jervois Mining!
Lithium and cobalt projects are beginning to look more and more like gold mines, as Canada and the US agree to collaborate on critical minerals
Donald Trump just threatened to cut GM's electric vehicle subsidies in their entirety
Copper and nickel are being stockpiled by China, Europe, and others, and no, it’s not because demand is drying up
Investor Alert: "Battery mining" is about to become big business and you don't want to miss the boat
Nemaska Lithium looks to produce lithium carbonate and hydroxide in Quebec by August 2020
New Energy Narrative, the Drudge Report of new energy news, is now offering battery metals miners/explorers, clean energy companies, and EV makers an exceptional advertising opportunity
It's official: The Trump Administration slaps China with $200 billion in new tariffs, to include tariffs on lithium, cobalt, nickel, graphite, manganese, aluminum, vanadium, and copper
New Energy Narrative presents: MAJOR PREDICTIONS for renewable energy, electric vehicles, batteries, and more, courtesy of investor Cory Groshek
A social (media) experiment by New Energy Narrative proves that lithium investors really need to do their own research
Why Elon Musk taking Tesla private could be a boon for lithium, cobalt, and other battery metals related stocks
Evaporation ponds are a waste of time, money, space, and water, and lithium producers would be wise to lose them
ELECTRIC VEHICLES & EV CHARGING
In complete contradiction to his company's stated EV-related goals, BMW's chief engineer says that electric vehicles suck and no one wants them, in a clear sign that he may be insane
BMW just expedited its electrification plans big-time, with plans to now release 25 "electrified" vehicles by 2025 rather than by 2023, to include 13 fully-electric models
In major blow to the battery industry's plans to mass-produce unsafe low-cobalt batteries, 4,803 EVs that use CATL's NMC 811 batteries are being recalled over fire risk
NYSE-listed Chinese EV maker NIO is recalling almost 5,000 of its flagship ES8 all-electric SUVs due to its batteries made by China's CATL overheating and spontaneously combusting
In the US battle over an EV tax credit extension, its lobbyists for the auto industry, big utilities, and environmental/health groups versus lobbyists for Big Oil
Volkswagen just debuted its EV-only car sharing service, called WeShare, in Berlin, Germany, with 1,500 e-Golfs in its on-demand rental fleet
Unlike Tesla, BMW doesn't seem too keen on making its own batteries, at least not yet, and this is apparently rubbing German government officials the wrong way
Tesla suffers yet another blow to its leadership team as the VP of its Fremont factory abruptly quits after three years with the company
Following a very public fallout of sorts with its primary battery provider, Panasonic, Tesla appears to be planning to produce its own EV batteries in-house
If EU auto makers don't want to get fined into oblivion, they're going to need to pick up the pace with their production of electric vehicles big-time
Thai electric services firm, Energy Absolute, led by billionaire Somphote Ahunai, wants to be the Tesla of Thailand
Chinese EV startup NIO has begun deliveries of its new ES6, complete with NCM 811 batteries, despite multiple instances of its earlier ES8 model spontaneously combusting
RENEWABLE ENERGY & CLEANTECH
Although they show a lot of potential, perovskites-based solar panels may never replace traditional silicon-based panels due to apparent durability and environmental issues
Clean energy just took the crown away from the fossil fuels, the king of energy generation in the UK, for the first time since the Industrial Revolution
BATTERIES & BATTERY MATERIALS
American Manganese has successfully produced high-purity nickel-manganese-cobalt hydroxide through testing of its patented RecycLiCo lithium-ion battery recycling technology
In major blow to the battery industry's plans to mass-produce unsafe low-cobalt batteries, 4,803 EVs that use CATL's NMC 811 batteries are being recalled over fire risk
Chinese EV battery giant CATL to invest 1.8 billion euros (US$2.05 billion) into a lithium-ion battery production base in Thuringia, Germany, with productiion slated for 2021
NYSE-listed Chinese EV maker NIO is recalling almost 5,000 of its flagship ES8 all-electric SUVs due to its batteries made by China's CATL overheating and spontaneously combusting
German EV battery maker, Akasol, is seeking to set up shop in Detroit, Michigan, where it hopes to benefit from being in close proximity to the United States' "Big Three" automakers
Following a very public fallout of sorts with its primary battery provider, Panasonic, Tesla appears to be planning to produce its own EV batteries in-house
Cathode materials developer Nano One has received a purchase order from a mysterious "global automotive company" that wants to evaluate their product in "high energy density" batteries
In a move that could open the Chinese EV market up to Korean and Japanese battery makers, China has scrapped its list of "recommended auto battery suppliers," which had favored domestic firms
Volkswagen says they only have "the first few years" of their EV battery needs covered, have angered their Asian suppliers by doing a JV with Northvolt
CRU Group says the global battery capacity will surpass 1TWh by 2024, as the number of "gigafactories" around the world expands exponentially
BATTERY STORAGE & RECYCLING
American Manganese has successfully produced high-purity nickel-manganese-cobalt hydroxide through testing of its patented RecycLiCo lithium-ion battery recycling technology
Norwegian hydropower player Statkraft is joining forces with English energys supplier Statera to build a 1 gigawatt battery storage system in the UK
South Korean battery giant LG Chem has chosen Australia's Envirostream to assist it in recycling lithium-ion batteries down under
Electric truck pioneer Rivian looks to expand into the stationary energy storage market with used batteries that it intentionally designed to be re-purposed
Nissan's spent EV batteries are finding new life in street lamps and stadium generators
Howe Street interviews American Manganese President and CEO about the importance of his company's battery recycling patents
Hanwha Q CELLS and Eguana Technologies have agreed to market, sell, and distribute the Eguana Enduro Home storage system throughout the European Union, Switzerland, and Norway
Chinese battery giant CATL and Chinese EV maker FAW have established a joint venture for developing, producing, and selling lithium-ion batteries, including energy storage systems
Germany’s Siemens hops headfirst into the home energy storage industry with the Junelight Smart Battery, its apparent answer to Tesla’s Powerwall
Analyst Richard Youngman believes that Shell’s acquisition of German battery firm Sonnen is a sign that home battery storage is about to take off
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS
Bloomberg New Energy Finance says half of our planets electricity to be generated by renewable sources by 2050
China says it intends to make a new state policy on both rare earth elements and related magnets public as soon as possible as the country's trade war with the US heats up
Pay attention, socialists: Without mining of critical minerals like lithium and cobalt there will never be a New Green Deal
CRUX Investor puts Australian Vanadium's CEO in the hot seat
Trump critics proven wrong yet again, as POTUS's solar power tariffs have resulted in solar installations increasing this year, rather than falling
Chipmaker NVIDIA believes its new "supercomputer," which includes an AI infrastructure, is key to its autonomous vehicle program going forward
Much like China, South Korea is sick of smog, hence why it is accelerating the retirement of its coal plants in favor of a shift to renewable energy like solar power
Floating solar panels could create electricity that can be used to produce hydrogen and extract carbon dioxide from seawater for use as liquid fuel
The Chinese state-run Global Times claims that the US military is definitely going to see its rare earths supplies restricted in the near future
An American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) progress report says investors are in love with US renewables, especially large solar power projects
Kibaran Resources engineering study shows that its proposed graphite production plant in Kwinana, Western Australia could be a huge success
LITHIUM & COBALT
I urge all of my fellow eCobalt shareholders to vote NO to a merger with Jervois Mining!
The death toll at Glencore's Katanga operations in the Congo, which is now at 43, is drawing a lot of attention to the desperation of "illegal" cobalt mining in the country
eCobalt responds to First Cobalt's letter opposing the eCobalt's merger with Jervois Mining by throwing First Cobalt, their assets, and their CEO under the bus
Desert Lion shareholders give the nod to the company's merger with lithium extraction specialty company Lepidico, as consolidation in the critical minerals space continues
American Albemarle and Chinese Tianqi Lithium's Talison Lithium joint venture at the Greenbushes lithium mine in Western Australia is under pressure due to US-China trade tensions
Glencore makes announcement regarding "illegal" miner deaths on its Congolese property, after catastrophically failing to safeguard its own cobalt and copper assets
"The inmates are running the asylum", as at least 39 illegal, "artisanal" miners die in mine collapse at Glencore/Katanga's KOV open-pit copper and cobalt mine in the Congo
Three Indian state-run companies have formed a coalition to secure the lithium and cobalt their country needs to produce its own electric vehicles
First Cobalt pens public letter to eCobalt shareholders, urging them to reject Jervois Mining's proposed takeover of the United States' most valuable cobalt project
Cobalt and copper giant Glencore is literally cutting out the middleman as it faces multiple corruption investigations relative to its Congolese, Nigerian, and Venezuelan operations
NICKEL & COPPER
Glencore makes announcement regarding "illegal" miner deaths on its Congolese property, after catastrophically failing to safeguard its own cobalt and copper assets
"The inmates are running the asylum", as at least 39 illegal, "artisanal" miners die in mine collapse at Glencore/Katanga's KOV open-pit copper and cobalt mine in the Congo
Rio Tinto has been removed from Norway's $1 trillion wealth fund's "blacklist" after selling its stake in the controversial Grasberg copper mine in Indonesia
Goldman Sachs thinks nickel is trading like a biotechnology or software startup as demand for the metal from the electric vehicle sector gives steel demand a run for its money
Cobalt and copper giant Glencore is literally cutting out the middleman as it faces multiple corruption investigations relative to its Congolese, Nigerian, and Venezuelan operations
BHP, in partnership with Bureau Veritas, has validated its heap-leaching technology as a means of copper extraction at its Olympic Dam project in South Australia
The Congolese military has deployed troops to guard Chinese copper and cobalt producer China Molybdenum's mine in the DRC from illegal miners
Mining giant Vale, already reeling from its tailings dam disaster in Brazil, forced to halt production at its Onça Puma nickel operation
In not so much a consolidation as a "changing of the guard," Pala Investments buys Cobalt 27, which it already owned 15% of, and will rebrand it as Nickel 28
Roskill says a push towards nickel-rich batteries and S-curve adoption of EVs will cause nickel sulphate demand to quadruple over the next decade
