February 22, 2022 Value of battery metals in newly-sold EVs tops $1.5bn in single month MINING.COM’s EV Metal Index hit a new all-time monthly high as electric vehicle sales lift off and lithium, nickel and cobalt prices continue to rise.
February 22, 2022 USGS publishes 2022 critical minerals list The new USGS critical minerals list adds 15 commodities while removing four.
February 22, 2022 Biden set to tout US progress on critical minerals production Biden himself has said little about why his administration has blocked some mines while touting the need to boost domestic production of critical minerals.
February 22, 2022 Volkswagen plans IPO of Porsche to ignite EV shift momentum While the timing of a sale remains in flux, the IPO could happen in the second half of this year.
February 21, 2022 Electric vehicle battery demand surge supercharges nickel Nickel rose to its highest level in more than a decade on Monday morning.
February 21, 2022 Mercedes-Benz foresees EV-only production lines within a few years It expects to have factories producing exclusively electric vehicles by the second half of the decade.
February 20, 2022 New project to investigate if California’s Lithium Valley is world’s largest brine source of lithium A $1.2 million project has been launched to both quantify and characterize the lithium resource in the Salton Sea geothermal field in California.
February 18, 2022 Lithium prices rise on tight supply, strong China demand Chinese market participants were surprised that prices continued to rise rapidly after the recent Lunar New Year holidays.
February 18, 2022 Brazil’s Minas Gerais state to sell stake in lithium miner The mining state is looking to sell its 33% holding in CBL, Brazil’s only producer of lithium carbonate and hydroxide.
February 18, 2022 Global EV sales jumped in 2021, as did deployment of high nickel battery chemistries Adamas Intelligence reports that 54% of battery capacity deployed onto roads globally in new plug-in electric vehicles was powered by high nickel cathode chemistries.
Column: EV revolution rolls on but battery metals lose their charge It should only be a matter of time before demand momentum absorbs the current supply glut, writes Reuters columnist Andy Home. December 20, 2025 | 06:23 am
