May 2, 2022 Enough nickel, lithium for 14 million EVs in 2023 – European climate group Global EV sales more than doubled to 4.2 million vehicles in 2021 from just over 2 million in 2020.
May 2, 2022 Biden’s team puts up over $3 billion to boost US battery output Grants will be made available to produce key battery metals such as lithium, cobalt and nickel.
May 2, 2022 The key minerals in an EV battery The cells in the average battery with a 60 kilowatt-hour (kWh) capacity contained roughly 185 kilograms of minerals.
May 1, 2022 Europe’s Green Deal requires massive amounts of battery metals – study About 35 times more lithium and 7 to 26 times the current amount of rare earth metals will be needed in Europe by 2050.
April 29, 2022 Trafigura seeks control of Zimbabwe’s metals for unpaid debts Under the agreement, Trafigura will be paid $225.6 million by nickel and goldmining subsidiaries of state-run Kuvimba Mining.
April 29, 2022 Column: Europe urgently needs an accelerator in the critical metals race The region's import dependency on enabling metals was already high and has turned critical since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, writes Andy Home.
April 29, 2022 CATL earnings drop as battery giant posts large derivatives position CATL’s shares have fallen 30% this year.
April 28, 2022 Vale takes hit from nickel hedging amid record price spike Miner renewed its nickel hedging program in 2022 to protect against huge price swings, but ended up losing out on $75 million in potential gains from the metal’s unprecedented rally.
April 28, 2022 Rubio questions Volkswagen’s ties to metal suppliers in China over human rights The probe is part of a broader debate over humanitarian issues in supply chains for materials needed in clean energy technology.
April 28, 2022 Eramet raises profit target as metal prices outweigh costs The company reported first-quarter sales of 1.2 billion euros, up nearly 80% from a year earlier.
Disruption and dislocation: LME metals’ year in seven charts Supply disruption and tariff dislocation have defined the London Metal Exchange base metals complex this year. December 23, 2025 | 07:58 am
