Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2023 18:15:20 +0000
Already 2.4 times as expensive as very, very expensive Hinkley. First of a kind, so very likely to double or more in price. Very unlikely to be built before 2040 due to long-tailed risks.
Credit to Author: Juan Diego Celemín Mojica| Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2023 23:30:29 +0000
Long distances, oilfields, and low salaries abound south of the Rio Bravo. If you ask me, it’s mainly these three conditions that have marked Latin America as one of the laggards in the EV transition. Alas, all bad times should come to an end, and recent developments in the region start to show not a […]
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2023 17:25:18 +0000
Steel, like concrete, is such an integral part of our world that we rarely notice it. From wherever you are reading this, I guarantee that there is steel in your line of sight, and likely vastly more of it than you realize. Whatever device you are reading it on has steel inside of it. If […]
Credit to Author: Saurabh| Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2023 22:05:48 +0000
Indian solar module manufacturer Insolation Solar has secured funding from a World Bank-backed fund for expansion of its production line. The funding was released by the Energy Access Relief Fund which is backed by IFC, BII, DFC, FMO and others, and managed by Social Investment Managers and Advisors. The funding shall be used be the […]
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2023 17:35:18 +0000
We’ve already manufactured an awful lot of steel. There are hundreds of billions of tons of the stuff lying around, much of it obsolete.
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2023 17:05:36 +0000
We’ve mined enormous amounts of iron and coal in order to build infrastructure to extract, process, refine, and distribute fossil fuels, and we’re going to have lots of scrap steel to work with.
Credit to Author: Raymond Tribdino| Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2023 22:15:09 +0000
Indonesia to assemble Minicab-MiEV for local use by 2024. Testing is being done with four big enterprises. Last February, Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) announced that Indonesia would definitely host the assembly of its first mini EV, a one-box “Kei” truck to be called the Minicab-MiEV in Indonesia. This was confirmed by Takao Kato, president and […]
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: Guest Contributor| Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2023 03:57:24 +0000
Tesla’s recent Investor Day event brought with it a few announcements, including the automaker’s plans to construct a new Gigafactory in Mexico. The plant comes as a part of Tesla’s hopes to increase its production numbers even more than it has in the last few years — and ultimately to reduce its manufacturing costs in the coming […]
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 […]