SQM (SQM) easily beat Q4 earnings estimates late Wednesday, powered by higher lithium and fertilizer prices. SQM stock cleared a buy point in Thursday’s stock market action. X Meanwhile, the who...
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Lithium Prices Skyrocket As China Cements Leadership Position
Lithium prices are through the roof, and they’re not going down any time soon. As an essential component of electric cars and solar power, the demand for lithium-ion batteries is going to keep on clim...
Opportunity Or A Fool’s Errand?
Emily Pickrell, UH Energy Scholar Bolivian President Evo Morales (R) receives from Mining Minister Roberto Echazu, the first … [+] laboratory samples of lithium carbonate, a compound used in med...
How Lithium Ventures Leverages Overallocation For Improved Returns
The cryptocurrency space is growing at a rapid pace and keeping tabs on all the projects being launched could be a challenge for most investors. Most importantly, the crypto market has witnessed explo...
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...
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...
Tesla Lithium Supplier Ganfeng Says Profit Soared As Much As 437% In 2021
About half of Tesla’s global production is at this Gigafactory in Shanghai, according to a Reuters … [+] estimate. Photo is from Dec. 2020. Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg © 2020 Bloomb...
NIMBYism Is Global, And That’s A Problem For The Energy Transition
TOPSHOT – Demonstrators block a highway to protest against Anglo-Australian company Rio Tinto’s … [+] plan to mine lithium in the country, in Belgrade on December 4, 2021. – Th...
How the U.S. fell way behind in lithium, ‘white gold’ for EVs
The United States has a lithium supply problem. Nearly every major automaker has announced a transition to electric vehicles, Tesla delivered almost one million cars in 2021, and a handful of new elec...
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 ...