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From ageing electric batteries to old engines to rearview mirrors, the auto industry is revving up its recycling efforts as it faces pressure to reduce its colossal carbon footprint.

Tech Xplore

Auto sector shifts gear towards recycling parts, batteries

Energy Trend

LG Energy Solution Begins Mass Production of Pouch NCMA Cells for GM’s Electric Truck

The first hole intersected 101 metres grading 0.21% total nickel, starting about 27 metres below surface.

Mining.com

FPX Nickel makes high-grade, near-surface discovery with first holes at Van target

GEM Will Provide Another 650,000 Tons of High-Nickel Ternary Precursor Materials to ECOPRO BM Under a New MOU

A team of materials scientists  and chemists has determined the proper stack pressure that lithium metal batteries, or LMBs, need to be subjected to during battery operation in order to produce optimal performance.

Researchers determine optimum pressure to improve the performance of lithium metal batteries

The auto giant has been drawing criticism from environmental groups for being slow to join the shift to battery-powered vehicles.

Forbes

Toyota Pumping $3.4 Billion Into U.S. Battery Production To Amp Up Electric Vehicle Push

According to a report from the NGO Finnwatch, Vale operations generated deforestation and polluted the Cateté river.

Vale halts operations at Onça Puma mine after court order

BHP has only five days to come back with a better offer of give up on grabbing Noront's early-stage Eagle’s Nest nicke-copper deposit.

Noront Resources picks Wyloo bid over BHP

Demand for copper, nickel, lithium, and cobalt has risen sharply, driven by the global move to lower carbon emissions and electric vehicle makers chasing battery ingredients.

Appetite for ‘green energy metals’ drives deals

Analysts: Chinese Businesses Ready for the Possible Minor Consolidation in the Lithium Mining Industry amidst Surging Lithium Prices

London-based ING Economics published a report in which its experts predict what the ongoing energy transition might bring for copper, aluminum, nickel, cobalt, and lithium.

What the energy transition may bring for five battery metals – report

An analysis by Fastmarkets states that the exponential growth of the EV sector will propel the industry’s graphite requirement far above demand from the traditional consuming sectors.

Natural, synthetic graphite needed by the EV sector – analysis

Legal setbacks in efforts to block a new lithium mine in Nevada’s Thacker Pass highlight how federal courts routinely fail to protect sacred lands. Growing up on the Duck Valley Reservation, Gary McKinney said he remembers hearing the stories of his ancestors’ brutal murders at Thacker Pass in northern Nevada. Tribal oral history depicts US soldiers killing dozens of Indigenous people in the late 1800s, including women and children, and leaving behind a burial ground with deep spiritual significance. The generations that followed have honored the expansive site with ceremonies while continuing to hunt and forage for traditional foods and medicines. 

The Guardian

Indigenous tribes tried to block a car battery mine. But the courts stood in the way

Sourcing the metal from the Chvaletice project, Euro Manganese will develop manganese products for use in cathode materials made by Nano One.

Canadian companies to use Czech manganese for Li-ion battery cathode materials

Companies on the global hunt for lithium, nickel, copper, cobalt, and PGMs wherever they are.

Green Energy Metals: Eight companies with big ambitions

After $16bn spending spree, Chinese owned copper mines overseas now produce some 1.2 million tonnes annually – that’s not nearly enough.

CHARTS: Chinese investment in overseas copper projects just beginning

The copper-producing nation, which holds the world’s largest known lithium reserves, will tender for five quotas of 80,000 tonnes each.

Chile to open 400,000 tonnes of lithium reserves up for exploration

Known by expectant parents as the technology that enables them to see their child for the first time, ultrasound can be used at extremely low frequencies to serve an entirely different purpose. Researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden report the first ultrasound extraction of valuable metals from electric car NMC batteries—a key contribution to the battery recycling process.

Ultrasound can enable faster, more sustainable battery recycling

The New Caledonian miner will provide the US carmaker with about 42,000 tonnes of the metal needed to produce batteries that power its EVs.

Tesla inks multi-year nickel supply deal with Prony Resources

CATL Outbids Ganfeng for Millennial Lithium with a Cash Offering of CAD 377 Million

Na-ion batteries (NIBs) are gradually attracting much attention as an alternative to lead-acid batteries and supplement to Li-ion batteries (LIBs) owing to the abundant Na resources and excellent cost-effectiveness. Since the most commonly used graphite as an anode material in LIBs cannot be inherently used in NIBs, tremendous efforts have been made to advance the fundamental understanding and design of suitable anode materials for NIBs, including the improvement of Na storage capacity and the study on Na storage mechanisms. According to all these studies, disordered carbons are now the most promising anode candidates for NIBs. Nevertheless, there are still many challenges need to be addressed, and the further exploration of disordered carbon anodes is very important in the future.

New research directions in disordered carbon anodes for Na-ion batteries

Toshiba Develops Next Generation Lithium-Ion Battery for Electric Trucks with 1.5x the Capacity

Near future developments could greatly increase the benefit of the technology.

Electric Vehicles Footprints May Not Currently Be As Clean As Some Assume

Metal-rich asteroids are similar to some stony-iron meteorites found on Earth.

Scientists explore possibility of mining iron, nickel, cobalt-rich near-Earth asteroids

Exports of unprocessed nickel ore from Indonesia, the world’s top nickel miner, ceased in January 2020, due to a government-imposed ban.

International Nickel Study Group forecasts rising nickel demand in 2022

China has once again been ranked top for involvement in the global lithium-ion battery supply chain by BloombergNEF, but for the first time the US has come in second amid a policy rush to support the domestic industry. 

BloombergNEF published its annual ‘Global lithium-ion battery supply chain ranking’ report for the first time in 2020, finding China to be the unsurprising leader, with Japan and then South Korea in second and third place. The US was in sixth place last year. 

Energy Storage News

China continues to dominate lithium battery supply chains but policy support gives US new hope

The global cobalt industry is set to receive a significant boost from the worldwide shift to a green economy, Fitch says.

Cobalt supply chain: China and DRC to maintain dominance, growth potential in Australia– report

BHP CEO Mike Henry said he’d consider operating in more difficult countries if the assets involved are attractive enough.

BHP to expand into “tougher jurisdictions” in search of battery metals

According to BloombergNEF, the United States has moved up on its Global Lithium-Ion Battery Supply Chain Ranking.

US narrows gap with China in race to dominate battery supply chain – report

Northvolt plans to invest $750 million expanding its laboratory facility in Sweden, a top executive said, to meet soaring demand for lithium-ion batteries as carmakers go electric.

Reuters

Northvolt plots EV battery grab with $750 mln Swedish lab plan

When lithium ions are forced rapidly through a battery, they might get stuck and turn into lithium metal, no longer able to move through the battery.

Why fast charging reduces the capacity of a car battery

Management appointments announced this week: Seamus French is leaving Anglo American and will be replaced as CEO of bulk commodities by Themba [&#8230;]

Mining People: Generation Mining, Mountain Province Diamonds, Nouveau Monde Graphite, Kodiak Copper

According to Verisk Maplecroft, nickel is exposed to biodiversity risks because some of the largest nickel operations are located in sensible areas such as Indonesia, New Caledonia and the Philippines.

Nickel: the mined commodity most exposed to biodiversity risks – report

The Thacker Pass M+I resource has been increased to 13.7 million tonnes LCE grading 2,231 ppm Li.

Lithium Americas expands Thacker Pass resource as it awaits final permit decision

A new report released by Umacore SA explored the lithium-ion battery recycling market, highlighting key industry trends and projecting future demand, growth, segmentation and market share for the period 2021-2028.

ESI Africa

The growing lithium-ion battery recycling market

Progress in applied research at Argonne National Laboratory raises hopes that solid-state batteries will replace conventional lithium-ion batteries sooner rather than later.

Materials scientists pursue a new generation of batteries

Battery manufacturer SVOLT has signed an agreement with the municipal government of Chengdu to build a 60GWh battery production base. Chinese website Gasgoo reported that SVOLT will invest CNY 22 billion to build a battery production plant and an R&D center in Jianzhou New Town, a district for advanced industries in the eastern part of Chengdu. Spanning an area of 2,500 mu, the entire project will be developed over three phases with 20GWh of production capacity added in each phase. For the first phase, SVOLT will spend around CNY 10 billion and use 767 mu of land.

SVOLT to Invest CNY 22 Billion in a New 60GWh Battery Production Base in Chengdu

Iron ore’s whitenuckle descent took a chunk out of the MINING.COM TOP 50 ranking of the world’s most valuable miners amid a continuing rally in uranium, coal and lithium prices.

Iron ore price rout hacks $160 billion off top mining stocks

A high-tech approach could potentially prove another Voisey's discovery at nearby Pants Lake intrusion.

Friedland-backed Ivanhoe Electric funds South Voisey’s Bay survey

Requirement applies to about 141,000 people, including fly-in, fly-out (FIFO) and other workers in mining, exploration and oil &#038; gas.

Mandatory vaccines for Western Australia mining and FIFO workers

"You can’t make this stuff up. House Democrats are planning to tax dirt,” said one Senator.

Senators blast new US mining royalty plan as anti-green

Commissioning of phase one of First Cobalt’s low-carbon hydrometallurgical refinery is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2022.

First Cobalt awards refinery contract to Metso Outotec

President López Obrador last week submitted proposed reforms, which include keeping future lithium extraction in the hands of the State.

Bacanora Lithium says Sonora project safe from Mexico reforms

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Voisey’s Bay mine takes unconventional approach to fire suppression

The collaboration with Japan’s Prime Planet Energy &#038; Solutions (PPES) seeks the creation of "a green electric vehicle ecosystem".

BHP inks nickel supply deal with Toyota-Panasonic battery venture

Britain-based researchers say ‘cradle to grave’ evaluation at the outset of new metal mining explorations can mitigate against negative environmental impacts.

How Life Cycle Assessments can enhance ‘green’ mining techniques

Group Ten is bringing PGM bulk mining to North America for the first time, CEO says.

Group Ten Metals close to initial resource for Stillwater West project in Montana

Fitch expects the NMC chemistry to remain dominant, owing to the superior energy density of high-nickel variations, which improve vehicle range and charging speeds.

NMC to remain the dominant EV battery cathode type until 2030 – report

The push for de-carbonization is the primary driver for the battery mega-factory boom. All of these factories need nickel and cobalt for their products, but mostly they need nickel.

Mixed hydroxide precipitate — the new class one nickel

Not all that glitters is gold. Sometimes it’s silver, platinum, or palladium.

Silver, PGM Snapshot: Eight companies with an eye for precious white metal

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The investment comes with government support through the Automotive Transformation Fund.



Politico

Ford invests £230M into UK electric vehicle manufacturing

The carmaker has seen eight weeks of gains, its longest winning streak since before the pandemic battered markets.



AlJazeera

Vroom vroom: Tesla’s shares rally over 50% from March lows

Gates also pledged to work with the U.S. government—but only if Congress passes an infrastructure bill.

Bill Gates, U.K. Prime Minister Launch $550 Million Investment In Green Technology

A research collaboration between Associate Professor Mishima Tomokazu (Kobe University Graduate School of Maritime Sciences) and Associate Professor Lai Ching-Ming (National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan) has successfully developed a new power controller system for wireless power transfer. The developed system is highly precise and efficient, and the circuitry is simpler than existing systems.

New solution for low cost, light-weight and compact wireless transfer devices

Michigan-based Our Next Energy, which is developing an advanced battery for electric vehicles, has raised $25 million from investors ranging from German automaker BMW (BMWG.DE) to a clean technology venture firm headed by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, the young company said on Monday.

Electric vehicle battery startup ONE backed by BMW, Gates-led firm

Elon Musk has built two industrial behemoths— Tesla and SpaceX—revolutionizing two industries along the way. But that’s not all he has done to change global industry.

Musk has also given manufacturing companies a new word: gigafactory.

Barron's

Elon Musk Has Disrupted the Auto and Space Industries. 1 More Thing He Can Add to His Resume.

A pair of economists, one with the University of Calgary, the other, the University of California, along with a civil engineer from Carnegie Mellon University, is suggesting in a Comment piece in the journal Nature, that electric vehicles (EVs) need to be lighter if they are to replace gasoline-powered vehicles. In their paper, Blake Shaffer, Maximilian Auffhammer and Constantine Samaras suggest that the added weight of EVs makes them less safe and less efficient and therefore less economical.

Researchers suggest electric vehicles need to be made lighter

Move backed by government funding safeguards Halewood plant

Financial Times

Ford invests £230m to make electric car parts in UK

China Power Crunch Causes EV Charging Problems, Industrial Investment and Development Might be Affected

Investor Michael Burry of "The Big Short" fame said he was no longer betting against Tesla Inc and that his position was just a trade, CNBC reported on Friday.



Economic Times

'Big Short' fame Burry says he's no longer betting against Tesla 

Dutch team designed and built two-person van with kitchen, bed, shower, loo and range of up to 450 miles a day. A team of students from the Netherlands are due to complete an 1,800-mile (3,000km) road trip across western Europe in a solar-powered camper van that they designed and built themselves. The Stella Vita is designed for two passengers and has a kitchen, sitting area, bed, shower and toilet. Using solar energy alone, the vehicle can cover up to 450 miles on a sunny day, reaching a top speed of 75mph, as well as powering all the inside amenities, a TV and a laptop. 

Students’ solar-powered camper van turns heads on 1,800-mile road trip

The electric truckmaker has been a rollercoaster ride for investors since its June 2020 public listing, but may be winning back some lost ground with new deals and strategic partnerships.

With Deal Spree, Scandal-Tarred Nikola May Be Getting Back On Track

Chile will ban sales of most internal combustion vehicles in favor of 100pc electric vehicles starting in 2035 as part of its pledge to reach carbon neutrality by 2050.

Argus Media

Chile to ban most non-EVs from 2035

Is Energy Transformation a Bad Move? EU: Carbon Market Funds Able to Mitigate Impact from Surging Electricity Prices

New research from Lund University shows that insufficient infrastructure was key in American car manufacturers choosing gasoline cars over electric cars in the early 20th century. If electricity grids had spread just 15 or 20 years earlier, a majority of producers would have likely opted for electric cars, according to the study published in Nature Energy.

Lack of power grids sealed fate for early electric cars

Foxtron Vehicle Technologies, jointly funded by Foxconn and Yulon, announced that the company will unveil for the first time the result of an investigation based on its self-designed autonomous driving open platform along with ITRI’s autonomous driving sensing system software, from October 8 to 11 in the National Museum of Marine Science and Technology in Keelung, Taiwan. During this period, the company will provide the public with test driving experiences. Through this activity, Foxtron hopes to demonstrate the latest innovations in smart EVs by the domestic automotive industry chain and public research institutes.

Foxtron Demonstrates Its Results in Autonomous Driving Platform Research in Keelung in an Event Open to the General Public

EDF and Legal & General-owned company plans free float of at least 25%.

Electric vehicle charging group Pod Point to list shares in London

Taiwan battery group lured by potential of 300m riders despite decoupling and Beijing’s tech crackdown

Gogoro bets on China’s electric scooter market ahead of Spac deal

Technical advances in low-carbon technologies and the availability of low-carbon products like Ford’s electric vehicles have sparked a demand-driven transition that will only speed up.

A Canary In The Oilfield: Why Oil And Gas Companies Must Heed The Call For Portfolio Optimization

While its C.E.O., Elon Musk, and the state’s conservative lawmakers share libertarian sensibilities, they differ greatly on climate change and renewable energy.

The New York Times

Are Tesla and Texas a Perfect Match? It’s Questionable.

As sales of electric vehicles soar, spare a thought for the mechanics.

The software engineer will fix your car now

Backed by Warren Buffet, BYD is pushing into overseas markets. It hopes its cheap and powerful batteries will help it sell cars.

Battery technology gives China an opening in electric vehicles

The actual potential danger in the event of an accident with an e-car is still relatively unknown, but unsettling images of e-vehicles on fire are already widespread. We know that the energy storage systems of e-vehicles based on lithium-ion technology behave differently than conventional car engines in the event of a fire. But what exactly happens when e-vehicles catch fire in a tunnel? How hot does it get and what gasses are produced? What dangers are there for people who are in the tunnel at the time of the accident? What risks are emergency personnel exposed to? What damage is there to the tunnel infrastructure? And what is the most efficient way for fire services to extinguish a burning e-vehicle in a tunnel?

Fire tests show that Austria's tunnels are fit for electric cars

For over a decade, policy and industry have tried to make electric vehicles more widely available and get people to buy them. Previous research on how to do this has largely focused on examined early adopters of plug-in electric vehicles and surveyed urban residents' stated preferences for these vehicles.

Reasons that people ditch electric vehicles show 'revolution' will be slow and rocky

The company that was born in Silicon Valley in the early 2000s is moving its headquarters to Texas where billionaire CEO Elon Musk already lives.

Musk Is Moving Tesla’s Headquarters From California To Texas

Indonesia Is All Set to Welcome the Fastest EV Charging Station in the World Courtesy of Desten, with a Five-Minute Charging Lasting for 500 km

An innovative technology known as Vehicle to Grid (V2G) could help further incentivize the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) and help Europe see its way out of its ongoing energy crisis by reducing short-term price volatility and allowing for more efficient and decentralized energy production, storage, and distribution.

Fortune

Vehicle-to-grid technology could ease Europe’s energy transition woes

Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai said the initiative could save 1m tonnes of carbon dioxide a year. Google Maps is to offer drivers the lowest carbon route for their chosen journey as part of the search company’s new environmentally friendly policies. Motorists will be able to select the route with the lowest carbon emissions once factors such as traffic and road inclines are taken into account. The new product launches in the US on Wednesday and in Europe next year. Where the comparable journey times are broadly the same, Google Maps will default to the lowest carbon option. 

Google Maps to show the lowest carbon route for car journeys

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Renews

GE and GM join forces on rare earth and magnet supply chain 

Ford CEO Jim Farley, whose grandfather devoted his professional life to the automaker’s Rouge Complex in Dearborn, Michigan, worries everyday about employment risks related to the electric vehicle transition.

As Farley and other industry executives have noted, it takes fewer workers to assemble EVs, and dealers could see much of the profit-rich repair business associated with internal combustion engines evaporate over time. This is a daunting reskilling challenge. "We have to get more things right than just the propulsion," he observed in an interview last month during Climate Week.

GreenBiz

Why Ford is bullish on domestic EV manufacturing

The South Korean battery giants powering many of the world's electric vehicles face a skills shortage that could drag on the global race towards zero-emissions transport.

Battery giants face skills gap that could jam electric highway

Why your EV’s environmental impact is not as minimal as you might have hoped — from the materials in the battery to the electricity that powers it.

How green is your electric vehicle?

The development project by the three companies will enable heavy transportation with electric driven battery vehicles.

Epiroc, ABB to build underground electric trolley truck system for Boliden

Lianyungang Gets Its First PV-Powered EV Charging Station with Car Wash

As the uptake of electric vehicles (EVs) increases in leading markets around the world, a new study has captured how South Africans feel about battery-powered cars.

The 2021 South African EV Buyers Survey by AutoTrader in partnership with Smarter Mobility Africa, shines a spotlight on the disjunct between consumer perception and industry assumption about the use and ownership of EVs.

2021 survey uncovers key insights into SA’s perception of EVs

For a hybrid electric bus, Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have developed and demonstrated algorithm-based controls that yielded up to 30% energy savings compared with existing controls.

Researchers develop new cost-cutting controls for hybrid vehicles

Taiwan Cement Corporation Proposes Three Major Investment Plans of Renewable Energy and Spends NT$5.5 Billion to Build Largest Storage System in Taiwan

US electric car producer Tesla has reported delivery of a record number of electric cars in the third quarter, beating Wall Street projections, despite the global chip shortage faced by automakers. 

Russia Today

Tesla shrugs off chip crisis as electric vehicle deliveries hit another record

Urban transportation is central to the effort to slow climate change. It can’t be done by just switching to electric cars. Several cities are starting to electrify mass transit.

Trams, Cable Cars, Electric Ferries: How Cities Are Rethinking Transit

The electric-car maker has weathered the global shortage of semiconductors better than more established rivals.

Tesla Reports Record Quarterly Deliveries Amid Chip Scarcity

The best-funded electric vehicle startup in U.S. history is poised to compete with Tesla and rival startups with backing from Amazon and Ford.

Rivian Files For IPO With Initial Orders For About 150,000 Electric Trucks

The company, which is backed by Amazon and Ford, is seeking to sell shares in one of the biggest initial public offerings of the year.

Rivian, Electric Vehicle Start-Up, Unveils Large Losses in I.P.O. Filing

At one of the first physical conferences post-Covid, exhibitors set up outside and offered rides on the latest trends in scooters, eBikes and more.   But do the business models work in the new era?

Micromobility Emerges From The Pandemic With Some Lessons Learned.  Is It A Business?

The EV market welcomes the Spirit of Ecstasy as Rolls Royce unleashes its first EV, the Spectre

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Universities are major institutions that have a key role to play in the energy transition to net zero, both via their own decarbonisation and as “living laboratories” to advance clean technologies.

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