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Investor Alert: "Battery mining" is about to become big business and you don't want to miss the boat
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
An open letter to Elon Musk, by Cory Groshek of New Energy Narrative and Manifestation Machine
3 major trends that battery metals investors must pay attention to in 2018
Lithium, cobalt, nickel, copper, and vanadium all targeted in new $200 billion in proposed U.S. tariffs against China
While the world worries about a trade war, America and Australia push for a peace treaty of potentially epic proportions over "critical minerals"
LITHIUM
The Global X Lithium & Battery Tech ETF, which trades on the NYSE under the ticker LIT, has reversed momentum big-time and is headed skyward, in a sign that sentiment towards all lithium stocks is shifting
Tesla inks three year lithium hydroxide deal with China's lithium leader, Ganfeng Lithium, as its offtake agreement with Australia's Kidman Resources went into jeopardy following an adverse court ruling
Cormark's MacMurray Whale: Lithium supply is highly unlikely to keep up with demand in the short- to mid-term, despite what Morgan Stanley and his ilk say (PODCAST)
Argentina Lithium decides to drop its pursuit of the Arizaro Lithium Project in Argentina as the market for lithium juniors begins to tighten and flush out some of its weaker hands
Lithium Australia's Adrian Griffin: "There’s a lot of misinformation in the press and by analysts [about lithium supply and demand, and from] Morgan Stanley in particular"
LSC Lithium receives encouraging pump test results from a 7-day continuous pump test at its Pozuelos-Pastos Grandes lithium brine project in Argentina: 750mg/l
Morningstar's Seth Goldstein believes that Chilean lithium giant SQM has a "moat" when it comes to lithium production costs...but is this really true?
Australia's Tawana Resources sees its shares sink after it's revealed that a merger with its Bald Hill lithium project partner Alliance Mineral Assets may never get an ASX listing
Pilbara Minerals announces a massive 35% increase in its proven and probable ore reserves at its Pilgangoora lithium-tantalum project in Australia, is now sitting on over 108 million tons (PDF)
Kidman Resources affirms its commitment to helping Western Australia becomes the world's go-to lithium source, after being threatened with the denial of a mining license by the government
Lithium Power International and Bearing Lithium submit Environmental Impact Assessment Report to the Chilean government, in a major milestone for their Maricunga lithium brine project
Curtin University professor of sustainability: Western Australia is the only place in the world that has every single metal needed to make lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles
Pilbara Minerals ready to ship the first spodumene concentrate from its Pilgangoora lithium-tantalum project in Western Australia's Pilbara region this week
Aussie-American alliance: Australia's Lake Resources teams up with the U.S.'s Lilac Solutions to speed up the lithium-extraction-from-brine process using specialized technology
Savannah Resources CEO David Archer: I honestly believe that lithium could be the new gold for Portugal
Standard Lithium says its new brine-based extraction technology could turn the lithium world upside down and put Arkansas on the critical minerals map in the United States
Chilean lithium giant SQM asks court to reject Tianqi Lithium's attempts to buy 24% of SQM over a belief that the stake will give the Chinese access to SQM's "commercially-sensitive information"
Canada's Nutrien goes nuclear in response to SQM's "attempts to frustrate" the former's attempts to divest itself of a large portion of its stake in the latter by selling to China's Tianqi Lithium
Following in the Congo's footsteps, Chilean lawmakers are now considering charging lithium and copper miners additional tax to bolster development of the regions surround their mines
Reuters: SQM and Kidman Resources may have to forfeit their Western Australian lithium mine, based on a recent Australian court ruling
COBALT
Henrik Fisker, the Danish auto designer currently working on an EV he claims will run on solid-state lithium batteries, posts mysterious photo of a "North American" cobalt mine and miners on Twitter
eCobalt's underground, primary cobalt mine in Idaho is on track to begin production in 2019, which will make it only the 2nd primary cobalt mine on Earth to reach producer status
Researchers at KU Leuven (Belgium) and the University of Lubumbashi confirm that the corrupt and dangerous nature of Congolese cobalt mining destroys both miners' lives and the environment
North America's only environmentally-permitted, primary cobalt mine, eCobalt's Idaho Cobalt Project in the United States, is making excellent progress on construction
Benchmark Minerals world tour presenters make clear that if the Congo doesn't watch its back, Canada and the rest of the world are coming for their cobalt production crown
Mining People Magazine asks: Can Canada make a different when it comes to global cobalt supplies? Or is this just a pipedream, in the face of Congolese dominance? (PDF)
The Congo's decision to declare cobalt (and possibly lithium) a "strategic mineral and therefore subject to a speecial 10% tax could come any day now
BMW management says it's looking to do more deals with mining companies and is keen to secure supplies of cobalt that come specifically from mines that don't exploit workers or employ children
Fortune Minerals successfully removes arsenic from its cobalt and produces a clean cobalt concentrate at its Nico cobalt-gold-bismuth-copper project in the Northwest Territories of Canada
New research report by Argonaut Equity Research identifies Australian Mines' Sconi nickel-cobalt-scandium project in Queensland as "the most advanced laterite Ni/Co project in Australia" (PDF)
Sumitomo Metal Mining and PT Vale Indonesia are looking into making battery-grade nickel and cobalt chemicals in Indonesia to support the fast-growing electric vehicle industry
A Congolese government decision on whether to designate certain metals, such as cobalt and tantalum, as "strategic" and therefore subject to an extra 10% tax is expected shortly
DRC Minister of Mines says miners operating cobalt and copper mines in the Congo should suck it up and stop complaining about the country's new mining code, because it is the law and it is not going to change
Cobalt 27 CEO Justin Cochrane discusses the cobalt and nickel streaming deal his company recently did over the Voisey's Bay nickel mine in Canada with CNBC (VIDEO)
eCobalt successfuly cleans arsenic out of its cobalt in Idaho using a rotary kiln and is now on track to finish its Optimized Feasibility Study before the end of this month, paving the way for offtake agreements
The Curse of Cobalt: Vivienne Walt discusses how child labor in the DRC is negatively impacting communities in the country that depend on the increasingly critical battery metal for their livelihoods (VIDEO)
Chinese cobalt sulphate producers are broke and can't even afford to pay for low-grade cobalt, hence why cobalt prices are weak across the board in China right now
Cobalt 27 CEO Anthony Milewski: The popularity of electric vehicles going forward will see cobalt prices continue to rise in the near-term (VIDEO)
Photojournalist Sebastian Meyer shows us the seedy inside of the Congo's cobalt empire in a photo set that's as riveting as it is repulsive
NICKEL
Extremely intense fire breaks out at BHP's nickel smelter in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, putting the company's operations at risk and threatening to shut the smelter down entirely
Poseidon Nickel will process nickel ore into high-quality concentrates for two other West Australian miners, Sulphide X and Estrella Resources, as it works to maximize its profitability
Australia's Axiom Mining granted mining license relative to its Isabel nickel project by the Solomon Islands government, which features the Pacific's largest nickel deposit
Here are the top nickel miners in the world, based on 2017 production numbers
Andy Home of Reuters: Nickel is still the best-performing metal among the six core metals traded on the London Metal Exchange (LME), despite global trade tensions
Detained Filipino Sen. Leila M. de Lima is very concerned about the environmental risk of a ferronickel mining project in Candelaria, which would be heavily funded by the Chinese
The President of the world's 2nd largest nickel ore supplier, Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines, says that if he had it his way, he'd shut down every mine in the country, following deadly landslides
Poseidon Nickel stiffs Andrew Forest's Squadron Resources with regards to a $69 million share offer, is successful in staving off a potentially hostile takeover situation
New research report by Argonaut Equity Research identifies Australian Mines' Sconi nickel-cobalt-scandium project in Queensland as "the most advanced laterite Ni/Co project in Australia" (PDF)
Sumitomo Metal Mining and PT Vale Indonesia are looking into making battery-grade nickel and cobalt chemicals in Indonesia to support the fast-growing electric vehicle industry
Cobalt 27 CEO Justin Cochrane discusses the cobalt and nickel streaming deal his company recently did over the Voisey's Bay nickel mine in Canada with CNBC (VIDEO)
Nickel explorer RNC Minerals unearths over 9,000 ounces of gold with a single blast at is Beta Hunt mine, which it has been trying to divest itself as of late
Growing demand for nickel from the burgeoning electric vehicle industry was a primary topic of conversation at Anglo American's nickel seminar in Shanghai on September 6
Russian billionaire Vladimir Potanin has reportedly returned a 2% stake in Norilsk Nickel to Roman Abramovich and his partners, admidst a legal dispute in London over the same with aluminum giant Rusal
Lawyers for Clive Palmer's Queensland Nickel are attempting to stall ongoing litigation against the now-defunct mining company to prevent liquidators from helping credits get paid
BATTERIES
"Electric vehicle batteries don't last very long" is one of the greatest myths in the world and is quite easy to debunk, as DriveGreen reveals
Great news for battery makers and battery metals miners: Next-gen electric vehicle batteries may die twice as fast as existing batteries, necessitating more than twice as many batteries as previously thought
China's BYD pushing hard to increase its battery production, as it plans to construct a battery factory with an annual capacity of 30 GWh in Xi’an, the capital of Shaanxi province
Lithium-ion battery startups have been receiving a massive amount of investment as of late, and most of it has been happening on the down-low, hence why you probably didn't know about it
German chancellor Angela Merkel: Germany needs to work with other European countries on its own battery cell production and to not be dependent upon others, especially China, for it
Benchmark Minerals, on its world tour in Perth: In August 2018, there were 42 lithium-ion battery megafactories built or being built (up from three in 2015), and now there are 45
American researchers use x-ray experiments to explore the inner-workings of lithium-batteries, in an effort which could lead to faster-charging, longer-lasting, and more durable batteries
Could "high-capacity" sodium-ion technology ever provide serious competition for lithium-ion batteries? Scientists of the University of Birmingham would like to think so
While Tesla focus on electric cars and semis, little-known Lithium Werks seeks to dominate the battery industry when it comes to supplying power packs for ships, trains, and mining and construction vehicles
Chinese lithium-ion battery manufacturer Farasis Energy just raised more than $1 billion, which it plans to use to expand its production, preferably into Europe
Saft, a subsidiary of French oil giant Total, and its battery alliance with Siemens, Solvay, and Manz expect to begin mass production of next-gen lithium-ion batteries in early 2020
Startup battery maker Solid Power just raised $20 million from the likes of Samsung, A123 Systems, and Hyundai Cradle to develop breakthrough, solid-state, lithium-metal batteries
Vietnamese electric scooter and electric vehicle maker VinFast signs Memorandum of Understanding with South Korea's LG Chem to secure supply of lithium-ion batteries
GM, shocked by how popular the Chevy Bolt EV has become, is now planning to boost the vehicle's production by 20% and have its batteries built domestically, in Michigan, by partner LG Chem
Amara Raja Batteries Ltd., India’s second-biggest traditional battery maker by value, wants to produce lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles at its Southern India plant by fiscal year 2018's end
Germany and Poland working together to set up a battery production corridor that runs along the border separating the two European countries, as both compete to see who will play host to a new Tesla gigafactory
BATTERY & GRID STORAGE
US Department of Energy (DOE) announces $148 million in funding for two separate initiatives aimed at advancing research into energy storage technologies
South Australian government is offering $6,000 grants to citizens interested in installing battery storage in their homes under what they're calling the Home Battery Scheme
Tesla wants to DOUBLE its battery storage installations in the next 12 months, and it has its sights set on eliminating natural gas peaker plants completely
German battery storage giant Sonnen will build 10,000 battery storage units per year at the former location of a Holden auto production site in Adelaide, South Australia
Tesla may be struggling to mass-produce its Model 3 sedan, but its Powerwall and battery storage business is booming
Despite liberal claims that Donald Trump hates renewable energy, the United States has somehow managed to increase its energy storage installations by 200% year-over-year
German gas storage firm EWE Gasspeicher is seeking to install a giant vanadium redox flow battery in Berlin that could technically power the entire city for an hour all by itself
Home battery storage system installations in Germany may double to 200,000 by 2020, as Germans seek to save on power amidst rising electricity costs
It has just taken China only six months to double its battery storage capacity; let that sink in, Western world
In just one year, 2018, China build up more battery storage capacity than it has in all of its preceding history; A123 CTO says country's not building gigafactories, they're building gigaCITIES
Germany reaches a major clean energy milestone with its 100,000th grid-connected, residential battery storage system installation
Frequent power outages in California are pushing the United States to adopt battery-based microgrid storage systems as an increasingly viable solution
Cellcube is taking a vertically-integrated approach to flow energy storage with its combination of battery production and vanadium mining
Lockheed Martin and Aecom team up to install the largest ever standalone, commercially-contracted battery storage system at a U.S. army base in Colorado
Australia's Protean Energy and Western Australian electrical operator Western Power finally hook up Protean's V-KOR vanadium redox flow battery, which has been in development for nearly a decade
RECYCLING & URBAN MINING
Not content to dominate the battery metals market alone, China now wants to have a monopoly in battery recycling and re-use as well
North American recycling facilities took in eight million pounds of batteries in 2017, 80% more than expected, and this is creating some real risks, with regards to exploding lithium-ion batteries
Investor Alert: "Battery mining" is about to become big business and you don't want to miss the boat
By 2025, 90% of spent lithium-ion batteries are expected to come from electric and hybrid vehicles, and the United Kingdom's recycling industry isn't ready for them
Lithium-ion battery recycling startup, Redwood Materials, started by Tesla CTO JB Straubel, has plans to expand into Nevada
Chinese vice-minister of industry and information technology: Improving China's system of recycling and re-use of old lithium-ion batteries is integral to protecting the country's environment
Urban miner American Manganese increasingly being contacted by cathode scrap suppliers wanting to do recycling deals and/or partnerships to take advantage of high lithium and cobalt prices
Proactive Investors interview: American Manganese CEO, Larry Reaugh, disccuses his company's lithium-ion battery recycling technology, which can recover 100% of cathode material, including lithium (VIDEO)
Northvolt doesn't just want to make lithium-ion batteries in Sweden, they also want to recycle them, in the most environmentally-friendly way possible
American Manganese's IP partner, Kemetco, reports that after only one recycling tech cycle at its lab, it has recovered 97.5% cobalt, 97.23% nickel, and 68.75% lithium from cathode scraps
Rumpke Recycling of Ohio is working hard to educate people on the way to properly recycle lithium-ion batteries, putting more pressure on battery and EV makers to work with "urban miners" like American Manganese
Leading lithium-ion battery recycler American Manganese to showcase their patent-pending process for 100% cathode material recovery at this year's MoneyShow conference in San Francisco
COPPER
Copper just had its best day since May 2013, as investors decide that the world isn't coming to an end after all, based on the ongoing trade dispute between the US and China
Excelsior Mining working hard to overcome local opposition to it being granted a final operating permit for its planned Gunnison copper project in Cochise County, Arizona
The Shanghai Futures Exchange will launch copper options trading this Friday, in a direct challenge to its rivals in London and New York
China's Zijin Mining wants a bigger piece of Serbian copper mine RTB Bor, will invest another US $350 million (bringing its total investment to US $1.26 billion) to get its stake to 63%
Baikal Mining Company, owned by Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov, is in discussions to raise $1.25 billion from Russian banks to mine Russia's largest untapped copper deposit
Hong Kong- and Australia-listed MMG has lowered its 2018 copper concentrate production guidance for the Las Bambas mine in Peru by 35,000 tons/year
Trade war? What trade war? Copper prices climb in light of increasing demand, despite the United States announcing over US $200 billion in new tariffs against China just two days ago
As global trade wars drag on, copper prices continue to crumble ever so slowly
Brazil's Nexa Resources says it will invest upwards of $1.17 billion in new copper and zinc projects in Peru and Brazil between now and 2023
Is a short squeeze in the cards for copper? Prices for the red metal rise back to over $6000 per ton
Katusa Research releases new report on growing copper demand and falling production
Following in the Congo's footsteps, Chilean lawmakers are now considering charging lithium and copper miners additional tax to bolster development of the regions surround their mines
After a failed hostile takeover of Nevsun, Lundin Mining's CEO says his company is willing to spend up to $3 billion on new copper acquisitions, with a focus on "low-risk jurisdictions"
Canada's Teck Resources is hoping for some big bids to come in for a 30-40% stake in its Quebrada Blanca copper mine expansion in northern Chile before a September 28 deadline
ELECTRIC VEHICLES
"Porsche is not demonizing diesel," says Porsche Chief Executive Oliver Blume, but they ARE ditching it completely, in favor of electric vehicles
German engineering and electronics giant Bosch says that India will electrify its popular two- and three-wheelers first, followed by buses, and, finally, passenger cars
Tesla is sweetening the pot for new Model 3 buyers by bringing back free Supercharging for them, as part of an end-of-quarter, last-minute sales push
Matt Bohlsen: The electric truck boom is just getting started, and here's who and what to pay attention to to take advantage
BMW's planned Vision iNext SUV is fully electric and looks beautiful, which is why it's sad that you may never actually get to drive it
The future is now: UPS is already using 100% electric trucks to make environmentally-friendly deliveries in London; is New York next?
Tesla inks three year lithium hydroxide deal with China's lithium leader, Ganfeng Lithium, as its offtake agreement with Australia's Kidman Resources went into jeopardy following an adverse court ruling
Electric vehicles that mine cryptocurrency as their owners drive them are a thing now, thanks to a Singapore-based startup
Germany may reach its "one million electric vehicles" milestone two years later than planned, in 2022, but when it does, it will still be a very big deal for Europe as a whole
AMAZING: Tesla Model 3 earns 5-star safety rating in EVERY category from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
Lithium-ion battery "supercell" technology company CEO, Christina Lampe-Önnerud, to CNBC: China is absolutely taking the lead on the electrification of vehicles (VIDEO)
Mercedes-Benz delivers 10 eActros all-electric heavy-duty trucks to Hermes, Germany’s largest independent logistics company
In a sign that electric vehicle adoption is about to go parabolic, Audi teams up with Amazon Home Services and Electrify America to help EV enthusiasts prepare their homes for charger installation
American e-bus leader Proterra scores $155 million in private investments, with a significant sum coming from Daimler, which wants to partner with the company on heavy-duty trucks and school buses
Volkswagen debuts its Electric for All campaign as it gets serious about promoting its upcoming electric vehicle lineup to the masses
Despite the success of Tesla and onslaught of European EVs on their way, Financial Times still believes the future of electric vehicles is still dependent upon China
VW just dumped a whole slew of new electric vehicle concepts onto the market, and if Tesla isn't at least a little concerned yet, they should be
Audi partners with Arcadia Power to enable buyers of its first EV, the e-tron Quattro, to offset the additional cost of charging their EV at home by taking advantage of remote solar projects
New Aston Martin manufacturing facility in Wales will be the production hub for the all-electric Lagonda brand, which the company calls the world's first zero-emission luxury car brand
The problems Tesla faces with trying to release an electric pickup truck are similar to the problems Harley-Davidson faces in trying to enter the electric motorcycle and bike markets
RENEWABLE ENERGY
Critical materials company AMG Advanced Metallurgical Group signs 100% renewable energy agreement with Denmark's Ørsted over its UK-based superalloy operations
Japanese auto giant Toyota has announced that it will be investing US $88.3 million into a US $266.5 million renewable energy fund managed by Japanese asset manager the Sparx Group
Forget Russian collusion; try German: Volkswagen, Daimler, and BMW under investigation over possible collusion with regards to preventing the development of clean/green energy technologies
San Jose-based Sunpower Corp breathes a big sigh of relief as it is granted a Section 201 solar trade case exclusion by the US Trade Representative, will see immediate financial benefits
The US Trade Representative (USTR) has announced the final list of Section 201 tariffs against China, includes 10% tariffs on Chinese solar inverters and AC modules
Taiwan pushes for 20 GW of its electricity to come from solar energy by 2025 as it opens the doors to the largest renewable energy show in the country, Energy Taiwan 2018
Solar and wind power are making great headway in the US energy market as it officially accounted for a tenth of all power generation in the country in H1 of 2018
New Jersey breaks record for the largest offshore wind power solicitation on a single-state basis in United States history
Japan has some of the highest solar power costs in the world and it is struggling to find a way to fix this
Is mandated solar and/or wind power installation "a tax on the poor" (and the middle class), similar to lottery tickets? The Washington Times' Stephen Moore thinks so
More than a quarter of Australia's electricity last month came from renewable energy sources, just as a "tsunami of new wind and solar projects" are about to be unleashed upon the country
New Australian energy minister Angus Taylor makes the outlandish claim that Australia has too much wind and solar power installed and that more would be like a "wrecking ball" to the economy
Could the Hoover Dam be turned into the world's largest hydro-electric battery? Many academics in California believe so
French multinational energy company ENGIE is partnering with French infrastructure and power equity investor, STOA, to set up a platform for wind projects in India
New poll: 8 out of 10 South Koreans want more renewable energy, such as solar and wind power, in their lives, as they believe it is both clean and inexhaustible
AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES
Siemens Mobility is working on an autonomous, streetcar-style light rail project in Germany that is far less complex than fully-autonomous cars that operate on open roads
The southwestern Florida town of Babcock Ranch wants to be the first town in the world to test autonomous school buses, completely leap-frogging the idea of simply going all-electric
New survey: Americans are quickly losing interest in self-driving vehicles, due in large part to concerns that they're unsafe
Beijing has designated 11 more roads for self-driving vehicle testing, in an attempt to speed up the technology’s development
One of the world's largest auto parts suppliers, ZF Friedrichshafen AG, is seeking to spend US $14 billion over the next five years to develop its own autonomous vehicle technology
Michigan-based startup May Mobility has been chosen by the state of Ohio to behin testing a self-driving shuttle service on the streets of Columbus
China's Alibaba will launch its own AI inference chip for autonomous vehicles, smart cities, and logistics in the second half of 2018
Portland, Oregon will be holding a forum next week to explore the idea of the city adopting self-driving public transport
BMW doesn't want to go it alone when it comes to autonomous vehicle, is looking to establish alliances so as to spread out its costs as it pursues a self-driving future
Autonomous tech startup Udelv of San Francisco just signed what it claims to be the largest deal ever done for grocery delivery service via self-driving vehicles
Caterpillar VP of surface mining and technology: Cabless, autonomous haulage trucks are quickly becoming a reality and will help align the mining industry with the future very soon
Humans will never have to charge autonomous vehicles if researchers at Graz University of Technology in Austria have anything to say about it
Daimler is developing an electric, autonomous vehicle that can toggle between a delivery van and an egg-shaped minibus capable of seating up to 12, as it seeks an edge over rivals Waymo and Deutsche Post AG
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS
Owners of electric vehicle charging stations will get a new source of revenue in 2019 when a major energy coalition begins to tap into the business of "tradable carbon credits"
As if we needed any more reason to ditch the internal combustion engine in favor of electric vehicles, now new research reveals that toxic, carbon-emission-filled air harms unborn children
Electric vehicle charging firm EVgo, which operates the largest fast-charging network in the US, plans to add hundreds of new EV chargers in California before the end of this year
Graphex Mining completes updated pre-feasibility study (PFS) for its Chilalo graphite project in Tanzania, with "compelling economic outcomes"
French oil giant Total follows in Shell and BP's footsteps, acquires electric vehicle charge point developer G2mobility
The world needs graphite, and Ontario has it, but its projects need cash, which is increasingly difficult to come by as more popular lithium and cobalt projects seem to get all the press
Benchmark Minerals' Simon Moores: If the vanadium market gets a number of key [mines] up and running quickly, vanadium flow could have its ‘lithium ion battery moment’ — its Elon Musk moment
KSPCB Chairman Lakshman says his Board will appeal to the National Green Tribunal to ensure that Graphite India's graphite factory in Whitefield is permanently closed down over air pollution
New York is going to provide a $4,000 rebate per electric vehicle charging port for public or private employers, building owners, municipalities, & non-profits to install Level 2 charge points
Chinese metal processor GEM teams up with Yongqing Technology in US $270 million joint venture to produce precursor and cathode materials for electric vehicle batteries in China
Thanks to Netherlands-based startup Nuon, every McDonald's in the Netherlands (as in, all neaely 170 of them) will be getting electric vehicle charging stations
Graphite India to be subject to inspections by the Karnataka Pollution Control Board after environmental/air pollution-related protests from the local citizenry in and around Whitefield
Nouveau Monde Graphite successfully commissions the wet circuit of its 3.5-ton-per-hour demonstration plant in Quebec
India's union cabinet has approved the complete electrification of broad-gauge railway tracks by 2022, and this could cause power demand to double within just the next four years
One of the world's largest copper and nickel miners, BHP, says US-China trade war could cause global economic expansion to slow down considerably
Can the man-made "super mineral" known as graphene revolutionize the lithium-ion battery industry and give new life to graphite mining all at the same time?
Are off-grid EV charge points, which don't need to be connected to an existing power grid and which rely upon their own solar arrays for electricity, be a dream come true for rural EV owners?