Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 10 May 2023 12:07:08 +0000
Tesla is on a roll this week. To keep up with its almost constantly growing sales, Tesla has been ramping up Model Y production at sites around the world. It has also just broken ground on a lithium refinery project. The big news on both fronts this week comes from The Lone Star State. (Unfortunately, […]
Credit to Author: Tim Tyler| Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2023 03:23:21 +0000
General Motors Inc. (GM) and Energy Exploration Technologies Inc. (EnergyX) recently disclosed a strategic partnership to advance EnergyX’s General Motors extraction and refinery technologies in addition to the disclosure that GM Ventures is leading a $50 million Series B investment round in EnergyX. By employing EnergyX’s cutting-edge method to maximize efficiency while enhancing sustainability for […]
Credit to Author: Glenn Jakins| Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2023 14:19:40 +0000
COMMENTARY In the 1950s, a geologist named Marion King Hubbert caused quite a stir when he predicted that the U.S. would reach peak oil production in less than 20 years. […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2023 21:17:41 +0000
On April 5, 2023, Tesla published Master Plan 3 — Sustainable Energy For All The Earth. It’s 41 pages long, which is exactly 40 pages more than Master Plan 1 and Master Plan 2. We won’t republish the whole thing here, as we know you will want to study it at your leisure. Suffice to […]
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2023 19:05:52 +0000
There has been a lot of concern about battery materials and global geopolitical risks. In some ways, it would be easy to just keep relying on China for rare earth minerals, lithium, and other things we need for the energy transition. But, as we’ve learned in the past, depending on somebody too much gives them […]
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2023 16:12:46 +0000
Texas is well known for oil due to its large deposits of this resource, which were first discovered in the early 1900s. Since then, the state has been an integral part of the US oil industry and has become one of the world’s largest producers of crude oil, making it a major player in the […]
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2023 13:06:03 +0000
If you remember 2022 (it seems so long ago now), you probably remember the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). If you’re a fan of EVs and you spend much time on social media, you probably saw all of the controversy over the Act’s treatment of battery minerals for EV tax credits. I predicted that the situation […]
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2023 03:13:45 +0000
Lithium, lithium, lithium — as much as we cover the lithium market, there’s much more to cover. The lithium market is jumping. Below are 7 notable lithium stories we haven’t written about before today. Lithium Americas has started construction on its Thacker Pass lithium project located in Nevada. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) provided […]
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2023 01:21:22 +0000
The EV revolution is built on many things, but perhaps nothing else more than lithium. We need lithium for every type of EV battery for every type of vehicle that needs to be electrified. The challenge we’ve talked about for the past few years is that it takes several years to build a lithium extraction […]
Credit to Author: RMI| Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2023 04:17:08 +0000
This article is part of a series about EV batteries and the EV battery supply chain.