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Detroit Three automaker GM remains largely a manufacturer of ICE vehicles. BEVs made up less than 5pc of sales of over 650,000 units in its main US market in Q3, even with its all-electric deliveries ...
A quarter (25pc) of Electric vehicles sold in Europe in 2024 will be made in China, up from 19.5pc in 2023, according to analysis by EU non-profit Transport and Environment (T&E). Chinese imports into ...
British mining hopeful Cornish Lithium and the German chemical firm Helm have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) agreeing to jointly work together to produce battery-grade lithium compounds ...
US start-up Urbix has been selected by the US Department of Energy’s Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains (MESC) for final negotiations for an award of up to $125mn towards the ...
US automaker GM continues to hail the efficiency and low cost of its Wuling joint venture (JV) with China’s Saic and Guangxi Auto. But it is still noticeably reluctant to commit to bringing its BEVs ...
Just 0.66pc of the cars that Japanese automaker Honda sold worldwide in 2023 were all-electric, albeit that was up from 0.37pc in 2022, according to the company’s European ESG report. But the firm has ...
BP is both, at least for now, a player in the EV ecosystem and, as a producer of crude and a refiner and distributor of liquid motor fuels, a firm with something to lose from mass EV adoption. So it ...
South Korean battery firm SK On, a long-time battery partner of Western OEMs, and German chemicals company BASF have announced an agreement “to jointly evaluate collaboration opportunities in the ...
France’s Renault Group sold a combined 109,307 of its Megane E-Tech and Dacia Spring BEVs in 2023 (see main image), a year-on-year rise of 33.5pc. But that measure might be slightly distorted by the ...
More than a quarter of the vehicles Gothenburg-headquartered OEM Volvo Cars sold globally in April were all-electric, the highest-ever monthly share of BEVs in the firm’s sales mix. And this 26pc ...
“What is good about the Thompson mine ore is it is primarily nickel, and there is not much other impurity in it.” So Gary Annett, the head of Manitoba operations for Brazilian miner Vale, told the ...
US solid-state battery firm Factorial has introduced its new Solstice battery, developed in conjunction with German OEM Mercedes, that promises energy density of up to 450Wh/kg. The product also ...