LPO Announces Conditional Commitment to ABS to Strengthen America’s Domestic Lithium-ion Battery Manufacturing Base and Supply Ecosystem The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Loan Programs Office (LPO) announced a conditional commitment to American Battery Solutions (ABS) for a $165.9 million loan to help finance the expansion of an advanced battery pack assembly facility to … [continued]
The geothermal resources of the Salton Sea region in California can double as a rich pipeline of lithium for EV batteries.
The US startup EnergyX is developing a sustainable lithium supply chain in support of a new 500,000-mile solid-state EV battery.
The oil-killing solid-state EV battery of the future will put the squeeze on oil for transportation, but the petrochemicals problem persists.
The US car buying public loves big vehicles, and now they are going to love big electric vehicles.
The following is a wonderful article by Charles Morris that communicates several important points superbly. It presents a bit of a different take on lithium than we’ve typically been presenting, while still referencing a comment from a battery exec that emphasizing a key point we’ve been communicating for years. That … [continued]
Elon Musk and “Mr. Lithium” are both right about the issues surrounding lithium’s supply and demand. Lithium prices are rising to insane levels — especially for a metal that isn’t rare. The issue isn’t rarity or scarcity, but it’s how to get it out of the spodumene and into an … [continued]
In the second half of this CleanTech Talk podcast interview, CleanTechnica CEO Zach Shahan continues his talk with Caspar Rawles, Head of Price Assessments at Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, to delve into the battery supply chain. You can listen to the full conversation in the embedded player below. Below that embedded SoundCloud … [continued]
In the first half of this CleanTech Talk podcast interview, CleanTechnica CEO Zach Shahan sits down with Caspar Rawles, Head of Price Assessments at Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, to discuss the battery supply chain.
The first used Tesla Model 3 has been sold on Ebay for a $19,000 profit, a video of minor defects in a new Model 3 has surfaced, and Elon is somewhere in Chile. All the Tesla news that fits, we print!
