A miner inspects the inside of a cobalt mine at the Chilean Cobalt Corp. exploration site in La … [+] Cobaltera, Atacama Region, Chile. Known for its vast copper deposits, Chile is joining the s...
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Rotary Club Collecting E-Waste To Help JB Straubel’s Redwood Materials Make EV Batteries
Redwood Materials employees start the recycling process for an old automotive battery pack. Redwood Materials Redwood Materials, a battery recycling and materials company started by Tesla cofounder JB...
Honda Is The Latest Car Maker To Plan A Big U.S. Battery Plant—Just In Time For New EV Tax Credit
Honda and LG are planning a $4.4 billion battery plant to supply lithium-ion packs for models including the 2024 Acura ZDX crossover. Honda Motor Co. Honda Motor Co., which doesn’t sell any autos in t...
Tesla’s Long-Time Partner Panasonic Building $4 Billion EV Battery Plant In Kansas
Panasonic’s new Kansas battery plant will be among the largest in the U.S. Panasonic Energy Panasonic, Tesla’s main battery manufacturer and a key investor since the company’s earliest days, say...
Russia-Ukraine War Helps Drive Nickel Prices, EV Headaches
Emily Pickrell, UH Energy Scholar NORILSK, RUSSIA – JULY 17: Excavators load ore in a dumpster July 17, 2002 in the Medvezhya … [+] mountains near Norilsk, Russia. In total, Norilsk produc...
Russian Nickel Compounds Pain For Carmakers Contending With Chip Shortages
Volkswagen ID.5 electric cars being built at the company’s Zwickau, Germany, plant Getty Images Carmakers have struggled to maintain production levels for over a year owing to a computer chip sh...
A Peak At The Efforts Of Two American Lithium Companies
A worker at the Controlled Thermal Resources (CRT) geothermal well drilling site cleans out a tank … [+] of excess cement and mud used in the drilling of the well, in Calipatria, California, Dec...