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Innovation Drives Down the Cost of Powering Electric Cars

Americans are increasingly buying electric cars. Electrochemists and their innovations will drive down the cost of powering them.

Reason

North East deals of the week: key acquisitions, contracts and investments

Companies to feature this week include equiwatt, Leathers LLP, Advanced Composites Engineering and Tees Valley Lithium

Birmingham Post

In Portugal, planned lithium mine in rural village sparks controversy

Northern Portugal is believed to contain the largest lithium reserves in Europe. These resources have attracted the attention of some of the world's largest mining companies. London-based firm Savannah Resources wants to open the continent's biggest open-cast lithium mine in the village of Covas do Barroso by 2026. Supporters of…

France 24

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Lithium: Europe joins the white gold rush

Lithium has become a vital component for the batteries that power electric cars. But with neither mines nor refineries on its soil, can Europe break its dependence on foreign imports? The Down to Earth team takes a closer look.

France 24

In A First In Country, 5.9 Million Tonnes Lithium Deposits Found In J-K

The Union Government on Thursday said that 5.9 million tonnes of lithium reserves have been found for the first time in the country in Jammu and Kashmir. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Australia is the world's leading lithium producer. Why don't we make electric vehicles?

Most of the world's new electric vehicles contain minerals from Australia. So should we make EVs locally, and what would it take?

ABC News

Lithium companies in North East and South West collaborate to speed up supplies

Northern Lithium and Cornish Lithium will share expertise on extracting the mineral that is a key component of batteries

Birmingham Post

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Nevada lithium mine wins ruling; green energy fights rage on

A federal judge in Nevada has ordered the government to revisit part of its environmental review of a proposed lithium mine

The Independent UK

Tees Valley Lithium signs agreement with Britishvolt buyers Recharge Industries

The firm's forthcoming £200m lithium hydroxide refinery on Teesside will supply Recharge

Birmingham Post

Cornish Lithium proposes new exploration project near Blackwater

The Penryn-based mining company is looking to demonstrate commercial capability of lithium production in Cornwall for potential use in products such as batteries for electric vehicles

Birmingham Post

Electric vehicle policy sparks debate over car bans

Questions about how the government should encourage drivers to swap petrol for electric cars has sparked a debate over incentives and bans.

AAP

GM, BYD, Solid State Batteries And Electric Plane: Top EV News Feb 2

It seems with each new week, EV and battery news grows. This week,

InsideEVs

GM Investing $650M In Nevada Lithium Mine For EV Battery Production

Actual lithium extraction won't start until 2026, though.

Motor1

Vanadium redox flow batteries can provide cheap, large-scale grid energy storage. Here's how they work

A type of battery invented by an Australian professor in the 1980s is being touted as the next big technology for grid energy storage. Here's how it works.

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The Independent UK

GM conditionally OKs $650M Nevada lithium mine investment

General Motors has conditionally agreed to invest $650 million in Lithium Americas in a deal that will give GM exclusive access to the first phase of a mine planned near the Nevada-Oregon line with the largest known source of lithium in the U.S. The equity investment the companies announced jointly…

Tribune News Service

GM says fourth battery plant 'very much on track,' envisions others

General Motors Co. is still planning a fourth battery plant and even more beyond that despite the reported breakup with supplier and partner LG Energy Solution.

InsideEVs

GM And Lithium Americas Strike $650 Million Investment Agreement

As GM moves forward with a full portfolio of EVs to overtake Tesla, it has secured a major domestic stake in lithium for its batteries.

The Conversation

X-57: Nasa’s electric plane is preparing to fly – here’s how it advances emissions–free aviation

The experimental airplane X-57, developed by Nasa, is due to fly for the first time this year. It has an impressive 14 propellers along its wings and is powered entirely by electricity. This sounds great considering we have to get off fossil fuels yet our demand for aviation is growing.…

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Scholz visits South America in race with China for lithium

Chancellor Olaf Scholz is hoping his trip to Latin America this weekend will help Germany secure additional supplies of the lithium that car giants like Mercedes-Benz Group AG and Volkswagen AG need for their electric-vehicle batteries.

Salon

Zero emissions without mining

A new report finds that the U.S. can reduce lithium demand by up to 90 percent

The Guardian - US

Bolivia’s dream of a lithium future plays out on high-altitude salt flats

The government eyes an economic bonanza in a mineral vital to electric batteries but critics ask if plan is viable and at what environmental cost

Birmingham Post

Tees Valley Lithium reveals step towards government funding

The firm's plans to open one of Europe's largest lithium hydroxide plants on the Wilton International site could secure backing from the Automotive Transformation Fund

The Guardian - US

Revealed: how US transition to electric cars threatens environmental havoc

By 2050 electric vehicles could require huge amounts of lithium for their batteries, causing damaging expansions of mining

AAP

Pilbara reaps rewards from decarbonisation

Lithium producer Pilbara Minerals has had an "amazing quarter" with $2.2 billion in spare cash and its first ever dividend perhaps as soon as next month.

The Independent UK

Lithium miner cited for violating endangered flower habitat

Five days after the U.S. Energy Department announced a $700 million conditional loan to an Australian company for a lithium mine in Nevada, federal land managers cited the developer for trespassing within the habitat of an endangered wildflower

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