This Explains Why GM Ditched The Ultium EV Battery Label
GM is laying plans for the EV battery of the future, including new cost-cutting, performance-enhancing atomic layer deposition technology.
Lithium Americas
Lithium News: 7 Lithium Stories You Might Have Missed
Lithium, lithium, lithium — as much as we cover the lithium market, there’s much more to cover. The lithium market is jumping. Below are 7 notable lithium stories we haven’t written about before today. Lithium Americas has started construction on its Thacker Pass lithium project located in Nevada. The Bureau … [continued]
EV Revolution Activated: GM Puts $650 Million Into Securing Its US Lithium Supply
No matter how many Super Bowl commercials you run about your EV lineup, no matter how much you talk about your EV leadership, you can only sell as many EVs as you have batteries lined up for. That seems simple enough, right? The thing is, there’s a supply crunch not … [continued]
Lithium & Other Battery Mineral Experts: 30–50% EV Market Share in 2030 = Upper Limit
I’ve spoken to half a dozen or so EV battery mineral experts in the past several months with one prime objective: understanding how much battery mineral supply can ramp up by 2030 and what that means for potential market share of electric vehicles in the overall auto market. Naturally, my … [continued]
Digging Into Less Conventional Lithium Mining Options
A few weeks ago, one of our writers wrote up a story on the company Standard Lithium and its plan to get lithium for EV batteries in a new, innovative way. Tesla CEO Elon Musk responded on Twitter that he thought the approach had “a lot of potential.”
Tesla Master Plan, Part Trois (Sort Of): Battery Day
Tesla hasn’t officially released a Master Plan, Part Trois, but we could pretend this is essentially what Tesla Battery Day is. Sean Mitchell from All Things EV believes that this will reveal a strategy for more affordable energy.
Nevada’s “Lithium Valley”
No, lithium isn’t going to become “the new oil,” regardless of what the pandering pundits of the popular press say (it’s a raw material, not a fuel, and it’s one of the most abundant elements on Earth).
