July 25, 2022 Redwood Materials plans to spend $3.5bn on making EV battery essentials Redwood is ramping up production of anode and cathode components to 100 gigawatt-hours by 2025.
July 22, 2022 Portuguese community files legal action against Savannah Resources The group accuses the company of improper appropriation of land assigned to the community for farming or hunting.
July 22, 2022 EnergyX gets $450 million investment tied to IPO plans Startup is one of several companies developing its own version of a direct lithium extraction (DLE) technology.
July 21, 2022 Ford announces series of deals to accelerate EV push Ford said it has now sourced about 70% of the battery cell capacity it needs to achieve its annual production rate of more than 2 million by late 2026.
July 21, 2022 Lithium Americas breaks ground on lithium test facility in Nevada The Lithium Technical Development Center was built to demonstrate the chemical process designed for the company’s Thacker Pass lithium project in Humboldt county.
July 21, 2022 Rio Tinto, Ford to develop battery, low-carbon materials supply chain The partnership will support the transition toward a net-zero future by supplying Ford with materials including lithium, low-carbon aluminum and copper.
July 21, 2022 Ford to buy lithium from ioneer for US EV battery plant ioneer will supply 7,000 tonnes of lithium carbonate annually for five years to BlueOvalSK, Ford's battery joint venture with SK Innovation.
July 21, 2022 Ford to buy cheaper CATL EV batteries to catch Tesla Ford said it also has agreed with CATL to explore using the Chinese company's batteries in Ford vehicles sold in the United States, Europe and China.
July 19, 2022 Allkem sees lower lithium ore output on labour crunch The miner expects to produce between 160,000 and 170,000 dry metric tonnes of spodumene concentrate for the year ending June 2023.
July 19, 2022 Tesla’s Denholm says Australia is key to avoid EV battery crunch Tesla alone will need more than 3 terabyte hours of lithium-ion batteries by 2030, compared to the industry’s current global capacity of about 1 terabyte.
Vale, Caterpillar and Sotreq sign deal to expand fleet of autonomous trucks in Pará, Brazil New agreement expands fleet to approximately 90 autonomous trucks in the region by 2028. December 16, 2025 | 01:52 pm