EV startup Lucid risks SPAC deal collapse on no-show holders

Lucid Motors is on the verge of completing a merger that will give the Saudi-owned EV startup $4.5 billion in fresh capital.

Bloomberg News | July 23, 2021 | 8:22 am

Tight battery market is next test for EVs after chip crisis

Rising demand from electric vehicles and challenges in securing raw materials will deliver a battery supply crunch for automakers, according to a key Chinese manufacturer.

Bloomberg News | July 23, 2021 | 7:29 am

How transition metals destabilize high-energy-density li-ion batteries

Japanese scientists discovered that high-valent transition metals destabilize lattice oxygen in oxide-based battery materials.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | July 22, 2021 | 6:06 am

US judge to rule by July 29 on request to block Lithium Americas mine

Environmentalists sued earlier this year to block the proposed mine, arguing that it could threaten sage grouse habitats and that the former President Donald Trump's administration erred when it approved it in January.

Reuters | July 21, 2021 | 3:15 pm

In push to supply Tesla, Piedmont Lithium irks North Carolina neighbors

Company last autumn signed a deal to supply US electric automaker Tesla Inc with lithium sourced from its deposits in North Carolina.

Reuters | July 20, 2021 | 7:32 am

EV Metal Index quadruples year-on-year as lithium, nickel prices rally

MINING.COM’s tracker of the value of battery metals in newly sold electric cars surges from pandemic lows, grows 18% month-month as lithium and nickel prices resume upward march.

MINING.com Editor | July 19, 2021 | 2:10 pm

LME launches six new contracts, including lithium and scrap aluminium

The LME had delayed the launch of its lithium hydroxide and the five other new contracts from an original date of June 14.

Reuters | July 19, 2021 | 9:08 am

Vulcan Energy signs lithium hydroxide supply deal with LG Chem unit

It is the first deal of its kind for Vulcan's project in Germany, and would account for a quarter of total output once the project is fully ramped up from 2026.

Reuters | July 18, 2021 | 8:40 pm

Dawn of a mining supercycle. Are you taking the fizz?

MINING.COM takes issue with a new white paper by Wood Mackenzie forecasting the varying impacts of the green energy transition on metals and mining demand.

Frik Els | July 16, 2021 | 5:18 pm

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