North America’s largest lithium mine is full steam ahead – it just got a $2.26B loan
Great news for EVs: Lithium Nevada got the green light for a $2.26 billion loan from the US Department of…
Great news for EVs: Lithium Nevada got the green light for a $2.26 billion loan from the US Department of…
The US is seriously lagging behind China in battery manufacturing and research, which holds a tight grip on the global…
A plan has been hatched to expand and diversify critical mineral supply chains globally for the booming EV battery industry…
A New Zealand-based startup just got $18 million to commercialize graphite made of wood chips for EV batteries in Europe…
Four companies will together produce new lithium-ion EV batteries that contain recycled metals in a US first.
Li-Cycle today launched one of Europe’s largest lithium-ion battery recycling centers, and it can process full EV battery packs.
A 240-tonne mining haul truck is about to be fitted with a 1.4 megawatt-hour (MWh) prototype battery system that global…
Lithium is a vital component of EV batteries, and Winnipeg, Canada-headquartered Snow Lake Lithium says it’s committed to operating a…
Tesla is reportedly in talks with mining giant Glencore to secure a supply of cobalt, a controversial mineral used to…
Clean energy may mean less mining for coal, but it also means more mining for minerals such as cobalt for…
Volvo Cars announced today that it would become the first carmaker to implement global traceability of cobalt by applying blockchain…
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): Battery materials and second-life battery recycling trailblazers just secured millions in VC funding….
Researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia have figured out how to extract lithium,…
Massachusetts metals refining company Nth Cycle is going to start producing mixed hydroxide precipitate (MHP), a nickel product used in…
President Joe Biden will today authorize the use of Title III of the Korean War-era Defense Production Act (DPA) to…
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): Scientists have taken another step toward making Li-ion battery recycling economical. The “world’s…
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): Denmark’s and Scandinavia’s largest offshore wind farm was inaugurated yesterday. A judge denies…
In what it claims is a “world first,” British Lithium has produced lithium at pilot scale from the mica in…
Most of the materials required for batteries and other clean energy technology are dirty to mine. They’re also mostly controlled…
Nth Cycle, a Beverly, Massachusetts-based battery recycling tech firm, has been awarded a $2.15 million grant from the US Department of Energy.
A US district court judge has upheld the federal government’s decision to approve the Thacker Pass lithium mine – North…
As the electric car revolution ramps up, so does the need for critical minerals used in batteries, such as graphite….
This video tells the story of cobalt and its importance to batteries and electric cars.
In order to qualify for the $7,500 tax credit, the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) requires a proportion of battery minerals…