As battery prices keep dropping, the global supply of EVs and demand for their batteries are ramping up.

MINING.COM’s EV Metal Index hit a new all-time monthly high as electric vehicle sales lift off and lithium, nickel and cobalt prices continue to rise.

The new USGS critical minerals list adds 15 commodities while removing four.

Biden himself has said little about why his administration has blocked some mines while touting the need to boost domestic production of critical minerals.

While the timing of a sale remains in flux, the IPO could happen in the second half of this year.

Nickel rose to its highest level in more than a decade on Monday morning.

It expects to have factories producing exclusively electric vehicles by the second half of the decade.