October 25, 2022 Ford, Everledger launch battery passport pilot for responsible recycling Companies will track batteries in late and newer EV models for six months, working together with US lithium-ion battery recyclers.
October 25, 2022 French lithium mine project unveiled in electric car race Imerys unveiled plans to develop a lithium mine in central France that it said could be a leading contributor in Europe's quest for electric-vehicle battery materials.
October 25, 2022 Why Freeland’s “friend-shoring” is such a bad idea Friend-shoring sounds good, but its harmful effects far outnumber its benefits.
October 25, 2022 Europe’s first lithium mine agrees to merge with Sizzle SPAC A unit of Australian miner European Lithium Ltd. has agreed to go public on Nasdaq through a merger with blank-check company Sizzle Acquisition Corp.
October 25, 2022 Volkswagen: we have never had supply chain shortages like today "We never used to talk to mining operators - now we know their business model," chief Murat Aksel said.
October 24, 2022 Analysis: Biden’s EV minerals cash fruitless without permitting reform President Joe Biden last week doled out $2.8-billion to miners developing new US sources of lithium, nickel, copper, and other EV minerals.
October 24, 2022 Trafigura and EVelution Energy plan to develop cobalt plant EVelution Energy is expected to start construction of the plant in Arizona in late 2023.
October 24, 2022 France’s Imerys wants to become leading lithium producer in Europe Company said results of surveys carried out at its Beauvoir mine allow it to produce 34,000 tonnes of lithium hydroxide for at least 25 years.
October 24, 2022 Metal-CO2 batteries closer to becoming a thing There is now an innovative way to overcome the energy efficiency issues that so far have plagued metal-carbon dioxide batteries.
October 23, 2022 Scientists want to produce cosmic mineral to replace REEs in industrial magnets Researchers are looking to decouple rare earths from magnet production.
How a reclusive ex-Glencore trader became Indonesia’s nickel king Arif Kurniawan has gone from earning paychecks at Glencore to controlling approximately a third of his country’s domestic trade in nickel ore. December 28, 2025 | 03:25 pm