March 25, 2021

Home: Volkswagen powers up for the EV revolution

Its roadmap has major implications for battery metals such as lithium, cobalt, nickel and manganese.

March 25, 2021

China to curb lead battery use in low-speed EVs from Sept

Low-speed EVs have not previously been regarded as vehicles that qualify for proper licence plates in China, the world's largest automobile market, but regulators are drafting rules to recategorise them.

March 25, 2021

Massive battery recycling facility opens in Singapore

TES’s multi-million-dollar facility has the capacity to recycle up to 14 tonnes or the equivalent of 280,000 lithium-ion smartphone batteries a day.

March 24, 2021

Chile lawmakers want a bigger share of the copper windfall

Chile’s lower house has approved a proposed royalty on copper and lithium sales.

March 24, 2021

Mexico eyes bigger role in lithium, sees speculation in mining concessions

Earlier this month, Lopez Obrador said his government was studying a proposal by a lawmaker in his ruling party to nationalize lithium production.

March 24, 2021

EV battery startup poaches oil veterans to build Arctic factory

Freyr plans to start a pilot plant near the Arctic Circle in Norway by next year.

March 24, 2021

Freeport, Tsingshan finalising $2.8bn copper smelter next week

The smelter will have an input capacity of 2.4 million tonnes of copper concentrate and an output capacity of 600,000 tonnes.

March 24, 2021

Musk grabs Elon lithium project in Quebec

Musk Metals, known until early March as Gold Plus Mining, is adding the battery metal to its gold-focused portfolio.

March 23, 2021

Top 14 UBS battery metals forecasts after VW teardown

UBS says ID.3 is the “most significant bet on EVs made by any legacy carmaker to date” prompting a super bullish upgrade to demand for lithium, nickel, cobalt, rare earth…

March 22, 2021

Lithium extraction pilot plant planned at Clayton Valley

NeoLith Energy’s approach aims to reduce production time from over a year to weeks.