Europe’s largest lithium project could be up and running mid-2022 -EMH

Lithium Americas posted a first-quarter net loss of $4.5 million, compared with $4.6 million in the year-ago period.

Historically the company has supplied the white metal for use in greases and other industrial products.

The biggest mining companies say they are well positioned to provide the metals needed for the shift to EV technology.

The US faces stiff challenges as it moves to create its own electric vehicle supply chain, with the extent of the country's metal reserves largely unknown and only a few facilities to process minerals and produce batteries.

No decision will be made until the end of 2020, when the company expects to have completed a study on the Jadar, which is estimated to contain 10% of the world's lithium reserves.

Volkswagen will invest almost 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) in battery cell production at a facility in western Germany.

Talison Lithium, a partnership between China’s Tianqi and U.S. group Albemarle, obtained an environmental approval for the A$516-million ($361m) expansion of the Greenbushes mine in Western Australia.

The world's largest producer of lithium has teased the industry for more than a year that it has production-enhancing technology.

The world's largest producer of lithium used to make electric vehicle batteries posted a better-than-expected quarterly profit on Wednesday.