Shares in Chinese cobalt miners dropped on Wednesday following news that Tesla had chosen to produce its Model 3 electric car in the country with lower cost batteries that do Continue Reading
Most of the world’s cobalt is mined in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Electric cars are getting cheaper and their sales are on the rise, but their future success Continue Reading
A study by a team from MIT, with colleagues from Alfred University, UC Berkeley, and RIT, has found that supplies of cobalt—a critical material in some battery chemistries—is adequate in Continue Reading
At every stage of the battery development process, new technologies must be tested for months or even years to determine how long they will last. Now, a team led by Continue Reading
Tesla is in advanced stages of talks to use batteries from CATL ( 300750.SZ ) that contain no cobalt – one of the most expensive metals in electric vehicle (EV) Continue Reading
Last year Oilprice reported that the energy storage industry was about to explode in China. We wrote that “China is set to become the single biggest energy storage market in Continue Reading
The battery craze isn’t really about batteries at all. It’s about something far grander than a battery, which is simply a conduit to a much bigger story. Batteries are like Continue Reading
Shell Energy Europe Limited (SEEL) has agreed a multi-year power offtake deal with the 100 MW Minety battery storage project in Wiltshire, southwest England, Shell said Monday. Receive daily email Continue Reading
Plans for Germany’s biggest EV battery plant at Kaiserslautern have advanced after car maker Opel pledged to invest Eur2 billion ($2.2 billion), the energy ministry said Friday. Opel, part of Continue Reading
JenaBatteries GmbH and BASF are cooperating in the production of an electrolyte for a battery technology that is particularly suitable for stationary storage of electricity from renewable energy sources and Continue Reading
