A new report by McKinsey forecasts a rapid switch from gas guzzlers to electric vehicles on the world's roads will be boosted by the plum...
12 Feb 2019
The late Stan Lee, comic book king and father to a slew of American superheroes, was a futurist as well. It was Lee whose fertile mind more t...
11 Feb 2019
Cape Town — In a bid to create more certainty in its raw material supply chain for battery metals, Japan's Panasonic is considering inve...
05 Feb 2019
Potential changes to China's electric vehicle (EV) subsidy policy next year may require domestic battery manufacturers to rethink their product str...
24 Dec 2018
China's Beijing Electric Vehicle (BJEV) will build a new plant for new energy vehicles (NEVs) in Beijing with a capacity of 120,000 units/yr.
The ...
14 Dec 2018
Battery manufacturing companies are adding capacity to try to keep up with automakers going electric and the increasing demand for electric vehicle...
04 Dec 2018
South Korea's LG Chem has won a contract to supply electric vehicle (EV) batteries to German automaker Volkswagen, lining up a key European custome...
05 Oct 2018
General Motors Co., which for decades crossed swords with California officials over emissions standards, is now teaming up with the state to tout...
03 Oct 2018
China’s month-on-month new electric vehicles (NEV) sales rebounded in August after month-on-month declines in June and July.
The drop-in s...
02 Oct 2018
Calls for transparency along the cobalt supply chain have intensified as human rights violation allegations out of the Democratic Republic of Con...
02 Oct 2018
It’s easy to dismiss exponential growth at its earliest stages.
That’s because at the beginning of such a phenomenon, the quantities...
27 Sep 2018
Research house Roskill expects demand to expand by 14.5% every year for the decade started 2017
The mineral is a staple in lithium-ion batteri...
18 Jun 2018
LONDON, June 14 (Reuters) - Panasonic Corp expects to more than triple its cobalt consumption in five years' time, industry sources said, even as t...
15 Jun 2018
As cobalt becomes increasingly important in powering technology, the U.S. government has identified it as a critical mineral for securing national ...
05 Jun 2018
Cobalt briquettes, Nikkelverk, Norway. Image: Glencore
Even best-case, early roll-out of new cobalt-light batteries won’t solve supply...
04 Jun 2018