January 18th, 2021 | by Zachary Shahan
The top 20 CleanTechnica stories of the past week included a look at increasingly popular lithium, nickel, and EV battery stocks
January 15th, 2021 | by Johnna Crider
CNN reported that Tesla's stock surge isn't just making Elon Musk and Tesla investors rich — it's affecting other industries as well. Investors who are focusing on other industries, such as lithium and batteries, are also benefitting from Tesla's success
January 14th, 2021 | by Johnna Crider
The European Commission's Horizon 2020 Program is funding a swappable container waterborne transport battery. Called Current Direct, this program plans to revolutionize the way goods are moved by water
January 14th, 2021 | by Zachary Shahan
Sungrow is apparently the world leader in solar power inverter solutions, and it announced recently that it crossed 10 gigawatts (GW) of cumulative inverter shipments in the Americas before the end of
January 14th, 2021 | by Zachary Shahan
A couple of mid-term and long-term targets are often expressed by people who follow this industry closely: 50% EV market share by 2025 and 100% by 2030. ZETA is committed to achieving the latter in the
January 14th, 2021 | by Johnna Crider
Panasonic is working on a low-cost and cobalt-free battery, according to fresh reports. It hopes to help Tesla realize its goal of increasing the affordability of its electric vehicles, and one way to do this is a cobalt-free battery
January 13th, 2021 | by U.S. Department of Energy
Today, the Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling Prize released the official rules for the third and final phase of the Department of Energy (DOE) funded $5.5 million competition. The goal of this Prize is to develop and demonstrate processes that, when scaled, have the potential to profitably capture 90% of all discarded or spent lithium-based batteries (LIBs) in the United States, and re-introduce key materials into the U.S. supply chain
January 13th, 2021 | by Iqtidar Ali
Tesla recently provided a sneak preview of its 4680 cell production planned for Gigafactory Berlin in the company's latest recruitment video on LinkedIn. It reveals several small details of the 4680 production process that might be of interest to competing automakers in addition to potential employees
January 12th, 2021 | by Johnna Crider
Albemarle Corporation has announced plans to expand capacity at its lithium production facility in Silver Peak, Nevada
January 11th, 2021 | by Zachary Shahan
The future of electric vehicles is batteries, batteries, batteries. That means a lot of mining for nickel, lithium, cobalt, and other minerals. Indeed, with the enormous growth in demand expected in the electric vehicle industry in the coming years
January 10th, 2021 | by Zachary Shahan
The two largest EV battery producers in the world, as I recently reported, are CATL and LG Energy Solution (formerly LG Chem). They intend to stay at the top. On the last day of 2020, CATL announced a 39 billion yuan ($5.9 billion) investment into three new battery factories in China. LG Energy Solution, meanwhile, plans to more than double its battery cell production in China
January 9th, 2021 | by Zachary Shahan
It may feel like 2020 just grew a tumor, but we are indeed in a new year. That means it's time to look back and reflect on the big stories of 2020. Well, the big cleantech stories — sort of. Admittedly, CleanTechnica stretched a bit beyond cleantech several times in 2020, and that was reflected in some of the top 20 articles of 2020. Have a scroll below to see them all
January 9th, 2021 | by Loren McDonald
On Friday, General Motors debuted its new “Everybody In” marketing campaign and redesigned GM logo in a private briefing for automotive and advertising reporters as part of the company’s ongoing efforts to convince stakeholders that the company is truly serious about accelerating mass adoption of electric vehicles
January 8th, 2021 | by Zachary Shahan
Standard Lithium is a lithium extraction startup pursuing an unconventional method of getting lithium for EV batteries. Tesla CEO Elon Musk commented in response to a CleanTechnica article last year that the approach seemed to have some promise
January 8th, 2021 | by Johnna Crider
Football season in America is almost like a religious pastime. Here in Louisiana, we have our Tigers on Saturday, Saint's on Sunday rituals, and tailgating is very, very popular. However, it's also a major source of emissions since many game-goers often use portable gas generators while tailgating. In Ohio, a group of students picked up on this and saw a solution to a problem
January 7th, 2021 | by Johnna Crider
Today, Elon Musk passed Jeff Bezos as the richest person in the world. Elon Musk has created his companies to solve problems that otherwise would probably not be solved. Tesla is a great example of this
January 7th, 2021 | by Tina Casey
A new lithium-ion electric vehicle battery ditches cobalt for high performance without the supply chain risk baggage
