(Bloomberg) — Most Read from Bloomberg Nickel has captured much of the limelight among battery metals in recent weeks, and understandably so. Wild price swings, including an unprecedented 250% a...
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Sulfur Battery Technology Could Make Electric Cars Go Three Times Further By 2024
Limited range is one of the most frequent criticisms of EVs. Although a 300-mile rating is becoming increasingly common for current electric cars, some fossil fuel models can go twice as far on a tank...
Biden’s answer to high gas prices is to boost US battery production
President Joe Biden will trigger the Defense Production Act to secure U.S. sources of critical minerals and materials like lithium, nickel, cobalt, graphite and manganese that are used to make batteri...
Biden to invoke Defense Production Act for EV battery materials
U.S. President Joe Biden announces the release of 1 million barrels of oil per day for the next six months from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve, as part of administration efforts to lower gasolin...
Nikola begins production of battery electric Tre semitruck
Nikola Motor’s Tre semi-truck. Nikola Motor Company Electric heavy-truck startup Nikola announced on Wednesday that it has begun production of the battery-powered version of its electric Tre sem...
Stellantis, LG to invest $4.1 billion in Canadian EV battery plant
Chris Feuell, CEO of Chrysler brand of Stellantis, introduces the all-electric Chrysler Airflow Concept vehicle during a Stellantis press event at CES 2022 at the Las Vegas Convention Center on Januar...
U.S. Unveils Battery Strategy in West Virginia to Ease Coal Loss
(Bloomberg) — Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and Senator Joe Manchin on Friday announced a program to develop lithium batteries in the U.S. as part of a broader strategy to help Appalachia a...
China’s New Wave of Electric Car Battery Giants Are Going Public
(Bloomberg) — It’s easy to think, with the blizzard of announcements around new EV battery capacity being added in Europe and the U.S., and a blockbuster listing for South Korea’s LG Energy Solu...
Rivian changing battery cells to LFP, following Tesla, and high-nickel
R.J. Scaringe, Rivian’s CEO, introduces the world to his company’s R1T all-electric pickup and all-electric R1S SUV at the Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles, California, November 27, 20...
California pilot program turns GM’s EVs into roving battery packs
While not nearly as much of a mess as Texas’ energy infrastructure, California’s power grid has seen its fair share of brownouts, rolling blackouts, and power outages caused by wildfires c...
QuantumScape stock falls after EV battery maker’s Q4 loss
Shares of QuantumScape Corp. QS, -2.97% fell more than 6% in the extended session Wednesday after the maker of solid state lithium metal batteries for electric cars posted a wider-than-expected quarte...
Apple Supplier Foxconn, Electric Scooter Maker Gogoro To Co-Invest In Indonesia Battery Cell Project
Horace Luke, founder and CEO of Gogoro, a Taiwanese company that developed a battery-swapping … [+] refueling platform for urban electric two-wheel scooters, mopeds and motorcycles, posing for p...
The ‘Electric Vehicle – Cold Weather Thing’ Is Real But Not A Showstopper
I will start with this disclaimer. I absolutely love, love, love my electric vehicle (EV) and don’t foresee ever driving anything else going forward. After buying the car last summer, I documented fiv...
Nikola Kicks Off Hydrogen Truck Tests With Pre-Super Bowl Beer Runs For Anheuser-Busch
A Nikola Tre fuel cell semi-truck on California’s 405 freeway. Anheuser-Busch Electric truckmaker Nikola Corp., which recently started delivering its first battery-powered semis, is showing off ...
Bitcoin Mining ‘Is a Perfect Battery’: Why Foundry Insists Green Activists Are Wrong
In brief Bitcoin mining’s migration to North America has raised scrutiny of its environmental impact. Mining giant Foundry claims the industry is accelerating a move to renewables. The issue has...
Vietnamese Car Maker VinFast Invests In Israeli Electric Vehicle Battery Startup
A VinFast VF 5 electric vehicle is displayed at the VinFast booth at CES 2022 at the Las Vegas … [+] Convention Center on January 5, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Alex Wong/Getty Images VinFast, th...
U.S. Ramps Up Battery Production With 13 New Gigafactories
The energy transition is driving the next commodity supercycle, with immense prospects for technology manufacturers, energy traders, and investors. Indeed, new energy research provider BloombergNEF es...
Philippine Billionaire Ramon Ang’s San Miguel To Switch On Solar-Powered Battery Storage This Year
Ramon Ang speaks at the 16th Nikkei Global Management Forum in Tokyo, Japan, on November 12, 2014. Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg San Miguel Corp.—controlled by billionaire Ramon Ang—will switch on solar-power...
Despite Price Battery, Bitcoin Still Ranks as One of the World’s Most Valuable Assets
The 13 year anniversary of Bitcoin, created by Satoshi Nakamoto, and its strides on all fronts have positioned it as one of the most valuable assets in the world nowadays. When Bitcoin’s price was tra...
Panasonic To Make Tesla Battery Cells With Recycled Material From JB Straubel’s Redwood
Redwood Materials plans to build a $1 billion plant to make cathode and anode material for electric car batteries starting in 2025. Redwood Materials Panasonic, Tesla’s main battery partner since its ...