Autonomous driving boosts copper use in cars
Mining News Pro - New technologies in battery electric and hybrid vehicles and autonomous driving systems are expected to add an annual 344,000 tonnes of demand over the next decade.
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Australia’s slow warming to electric cars may get election boost
Mining News Pro - One of the world’s biggest laggards in electric vehicle adoption, Australia, is finally warming to the idea.
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Electric cars to account for over 80% of battery demand in next 20 years despite current challenges
Mining News Pro - Electric cars are expected to account for 79% of the EV market revenues and 83% of battery demand in the next two decades despite some current challenges, a new report by IDTechEx shows.
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Tesla smashes quarterly delivery record with 308,600 cars
Mining News Pro - Tesla Inc. delivered 308,600 vehicles worldwide in the fourth quarter, smashing the previous record for the electric-car maker and setting a capstone on a year in which the company joined the exclusive $1 trillion market valuation club.
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Biden infrastructure plan targets electric cars
Mining News Pro - President Joe Biden is calling for sweeping investment in electric vehicles, renewable power and the electric grid as part of a broad blueprint to bolster the US economy while combating climate change.
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EV metals index beats record by 54% as electric cars reach tipping point
Mining News Pro - The global vehicle market in 2020 had its worst year in decades. European sales were the lowest since 1985, 15% fewer cars left US showrooms and while the decline in China was in single digits, it was the third down year in a row for the world’s largest car market.
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All the mines Tesla needs to build 20 million cars a year
Mining News Pro - Elon Musk and his merry band of executive vice presidents had plenty of advice for the mining and metals industry at the company’s Battery Day event in September, where the road map to a $25,000 Tesla was laid out.
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US spending less on electric cars than three years ago
Mining News Pro - The media company’s green energy research arm, shows Europe overtaking the Asia Pacific region – mainly China – in investment in transport electrification, including buses, commercial vehicles and charging infrastructure.
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California is banning gasoline cars
Mining News Pro - California just started the clock on a future that a few years ago would’ve been unthinkable: dealerships full of nothing but zero-emissions cars.
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Britain’s accelerating transition to electric cars
Mining News Pro - Britain’s transition from petroleum to electricity in road transport is accelerating, albeit from a low base, and will start to have a significant impact on oil consumption towards the end of the decade.
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Lithium price report;
One in three cars sold in UK now electric
Mining News Pro - 2020 was going to be the breakout year for electric vehicles in Europe as Volkswagen’s affordable ICE killer, the ID3, and other entry-level models propel the continent into becoming an EV mass market.
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Oil’s big breakup in Vienna is leaving scars across the market
Mining News Pro - The OPEC+ alliance’s dramatic failure to reach an output deal is most obviously being felt in oil futures, which plunged the most since 2008 in London. A look at the less-conspicuous corners of the market reveal the scale of the impact.
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Lithium price: Battery capacity of electric cars doubles from last year
Mining News Pro - Battery metals tracker Adamas Intelligence says that in March 2019, battery capacity deployed worldwide in battery electric cars (including hybrids) nearly doubled from the same month last year.
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Lithium use in electric cars sold around the world surges 76%
Mining News Pro - Battery metals tracker Adamas Intelligence says that in February 2019, 76% more lithium carbonate equivalent (LCE) was deployed worldwide in batteries of new electric, plug-in hybrid and hybrid electric passenger vehicles compared to the same month last year.
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Scientists find new way to power electric cars using cobalt
Mining News Pro - Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Lowell developed a technique that uses only water, carbon dioxide and cobalt metal particles that have surface nanostructures measuring billionths of a meter in size, to produce hydrogen on demand at relatively low temperature and pressure and to use to power the next generation of electric vehicles.
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How the cobalt market fell victim to the allure of electric cars
Mining News Pro - Cobalt prices were surging so much last year that thieves were carrying out elaborate heists at warehouses in Europe’s busiest port. Now, prices are in free fall and mining companies are taking the financial hit.
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Titanium carbide makes aluminum alloy viable for cars
Mining News Pro - Engineers from UCLA have developed a way to make an aluminum alloy known as AA 7075 so strong that it can be welded without breaking.
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BHP, world`s largest miner, says 2017 is `tipping point` for electric cars
Mining News Agency - This year looks set to be the "tipping point" for electric cars, Arnoud Balhuizen , chief commercial officer at BHP, said on Tuesday, adding that the impact for raw materials producers would be felt first in the metals markets and only later in oil.
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