While some auto manufacturers are apparently banking on the idea that electric vehicle battery prices will continue their recent price-decrease trend for quite some time to come, executives at Hyundai are expecting battery prices to level off around 2020 owing to component supply constraints, reportedly.
Inventories of non-ferrous metals may be boosted significantly in South Korea beginning next year, owing to the expectation of fast growing demand for electric vehicles, the country’s Public Procurement Service (PPS) has revealed.
Originally published on EV Obsession. Sumitomo Metal Mining has revealed as part of its most recent 3-year business plan that it will be boosting production of NCA materials — lithium-nickel-cobalt-aluminum-oxide materials used in lithium-ion battery cathodes — in anticipation of supplying Tesla during Model 3 production. A similar move was … [continued]
Reduce, reuse, and recycle — the three Rs of waste management have been applicable for decades. Until now, however, they have not been quite so useful for the large-scale nickel-metal hydride (Ni-MH) batteries used in hybrid cars, in part due to the difficulty in recovering nickel and cobalt (rare earth … [continued]
