Stellantis to enter JV with Orano to recycle electric car batteries
Mining News Pro - Franco-Italian automaker Stellantis said on Tuesday it planned a joint venture with French nuclear fuels firm Orano to recycle used electric vehicle batteries and scrap materials from its gigafactories in Europe and North America.
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Lithium players race for breakthrough to meet electric car demand
Mining News Pro - On the outskirts of El Dorado — heart of Arkansas’ 1920s oil boom — a company backed by Koch Industries Inc. is looking to dramatically speed up extraction of a battery metal essential to weaning the world off fossil fuels, while proving naysayers wrong in the process.
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Biden’s electric car sales plan to strain critical mineral supplies
Mining News Pro - Stellantis NV and Toyota Motor Corp. blasted a Biden administration plan to squelch auto pollution, saying it would compel aggressive and unrealistic sales of electric vehicles that strain critical mineral supplies.
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Climate disasters risk putting a damper on electric car making
Mining News Pro - Automakers racing to make more electric vehicles have a problem: climate change is catching up with the industry.
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China electric car sales rose in May as lockdowns start to ebb
Mining News Pro - China’s legion of electric carmakers appears to be shaking off the worst of the nation’s lockdown-induced supply chain snarls and parts shortages, with at least four selling over 10,000 vehicles last month.
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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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Electric car crystal ball gazing in China as the new year dawns
Mining News Pro - This time 20 years ago, China joined the World Trade Organization, kicking off a new era in the country’s automobile sector as overseas carmakers began to muscle in. Next year is also shaping up to be a banner one, particularly in China’s electric-vehicle segment.
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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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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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Albemarle, Tesla and Uber to jointly push electric car use
Mining News Pro - The world’s top lithium producer Albemarle has joined forces with 27 companies, including electric vehicles maker Tesla and ride share company Uber, forming a group that will push for 100% EV sales in the US by 2030.
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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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Charging points surge ahead of electric car boom
Mining News Pro - The number of publicly accessible charging points for electric vehicles (EV) jumped 60% in 2019, the biggest increase in three years and outpacing sales of battery-powered cars, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).
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China’s stranglehold on electric car battery supply chain
Mining News Pro - Nickel-cobalt-manganese cathode chemistries dominate global lithium ion electric vehicle battery production — though Tesla is doing its best to change that.
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India’s electric car ambitions could stumble on lack of lithium
Mining News Pro - India’s ambition of becoming a global hub for making electric vehicles faces one major hurdle: its lack of access to lithium.
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Nickel, cobalt price: Electric car sales are tanking, but metal use spikes
Mining News Pro - The global auto industry will produce 88.8 million cars and light trucks this year, an almost 6% drop from a year ago, according to researcher IHS Markit, quoted by Bloomberg News.
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Platinum giant wants in on batteries to ease electric car threat
Mining News Pro - The world’s top platinum and palladium supplier has an answer to the electric-car boom that may pose a long-term threat to its biggest market: invent a new battery.
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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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Reduced cobalt electric car batteries delayed amid price fall
Mining News Pro - The cobalt blues
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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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