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Critical Minerals Are A Gold Rush The West Lost Sight Of

January 10, 2025 admin 0 Comments Australia, battery minerals, Canada, carbon emissions, China, clean power, clean transport, climate change, conflict minerals, Europe, green economy, green jobs, investment, Manufacturing, mineral resources, policy & politics, rare earth minerals, usa

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2025 02:35:02 +0000

Recently I had the opportunity to sit down with Gavin Mudd, director of the centre for critical minerals intelligence with the British Geological Survey. He’s been doing leading research with global collaborators on how much of what resources we can actually get at. Below is the first half of our … [continued]

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EV Battery Material Shortages by 2030? Which Ones?

December 29, 2024 admin batteries, battery metals, battery minerals, clean transport, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev batteries, ev battery materials, lfp batteries, lithium-ion batteries, mckinsey & company, nmc batteries

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2024 17:21:52 +0000

Electric vehicle sales keep growing, and quite fast. Year over year, gas car sales have been going down and electric car sales have been going up. The transition is underway. But there are periods of faster growth and periods of slower growth. When growth is slower than expected, that can … [continued]

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Salton Sea Lithium Researchers Win Award for Societal Impact

December 22, 2024 admin batteries, battery metals, battery minerals, clean transport, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev batteries, ev battery materials, geothermal lithium, geothermal technologies office, lawrence berkeley national laboratory (lbnl), lithium, lithium-ion batteries, policy & politics, research, Salton Sea, SCIENCE, us department of energy (doe)

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 02:55:05 +0000

If electric cars are the cars of the future (and they are), then batteries are sort of the gasoline of the future (well, really, they should be considered the gas tanks of the future … but gas tanks aren’t nearly as valuable, technical, or worth discussing). What’s in those batteries … [continued]

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Solaris to Deliver First EU Battery Passport–Compliant Buses

December 21, 2024 admin batteries, battery metals, battery minerals, battery passports, clean transport, electric buses, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, Europe, ev batteries, ev battery materials, lithium-ion batteries, mass transit / public transit, solaris, solaris urbino, Sweden

Credit to Author: Raymond Tribdino| Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 11:44:08 +0000

Berlin’s BVG transit system has received the world’s first series-produced electric bus with a battery passport: the Solaris Urbino 18 electric. In a press statement, Solaris said the deliveries put BVG three years ahead of EU regulations, which will require a battery passport in all electric vehicles starting in 2027. … [continued]

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Finnish GTK Risks Credibility By Publishing Bad Minerals Study In Peer-Reviewed House Journal

December 6, 2024 admin batteries, battery minerals, carbon emissions, clean power, clean transport, climate change, Coal, Electric vehicles, Energy, Energy Storage, Fossil Fuels, grid, hydroelectric, lithium-ion batteries, natural gas, Oil, policy research, pumped hydro storage, renewable energy, research, SCIENCE, Shipping, Solar energy, trains / rail, wind energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2024 03:02:17 +0000

A year ago I published an assessment of a quite remarkably bad, non-peer-reviewed paper by one of the Geological Survey of Finland’s (GTK) associate professors, Simon Michaux. The paper’s quite risible conclusions were that there wasn’t nearly enough metal in the ground to be able to electrify everything with renewables. … [continued]

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$10 Million to Develop New and Alternative Supplies of Critical Minerals & Materials

August 13, 2024 admin battery metals, battery minerals, bipartisan infrastructure law, clean power, clean transport, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev battery materials, idaho national laboratory, investing in america, iowa state university, jennifer granholm, Joe Biden, pennsylvania state university, rare earth elements, rare earth minerals, research, SCIENCE, Solar energy, us department of energy (doe), wind energy

Credit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2024 20:05:12 +0000

The Investing in America Agenda Supports Innovative, Clean Energy Technologies to Strengthen Responsible Domestic Supply Chains and Reduce Our Nation’s Reliance on Foreign Sources In support of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $10.2 million for four projects that will advance cost … [continued]

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Battery Minerals: A Common Fight Over Uncommon Things

August 6, 2024 admin batteries, battery materials, battery metals, battery minerals, clean transport, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev batteries, ev battery materials, green economy, lithium-ion batteries, Manufacturing, policy & politics, policy research, research

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2024 01:10:15 +0000

The current media and political churn over the production and distribution of battery minerals is generating some energy of its own. The debate feels modern because it touches on the future of electric cars, wind turbines, solar panels, and energy storage. If we could only get our hands on some Vibranium! In reality, … [continued]

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EU & Serbia Sign Strategic Partnership On Sustainable Raw Materials, Battery Value Chains, & Electric Vehicles

July 23, 2024 admin batteries, battery materials, battery metals, battery minerals, battery supply chain, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, EU, Europe, European Union, ev battery materials, ev supply chain, green economy, lithium-ion batteries, policy & politics, press releases, Serbia, supply chains

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2024 23:14:13 +0000

Yesterday, the EU and the Republic of Serbia have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) launching a Strategic Partnership on sustainable raw materials, battery value chains and electric vehicles. The Partnership aims to support the development of new local industries and high-quality jobs along the electric vehicle value chain in full respect of … [continued]

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Eramet Inaugurates Its Direct Lithium Extraction Plant in Argentina

July 19, 2024 admin Argentina, batteries, battery minerals, clean transport, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev battery materials, lithium, lithium carbonate, lithium mining, lithium-ion batteries, press releases

Credit to Author: Press Release| Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2024 19:26:13 +0000

Becoming the first European company to produce battery-grade lithium carbonate at industrial scale Start of the commissioning of the Centenario direct lithium extraction plant, located in Salta Province, Argentina; first production planned in November 2024 A key milestone in Eramet’s strategic development into producing metals for energy transition A technological … [continued]

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