Raw materials

Australian mining company, Liontown Resources Ltd., has just announced it’s agreed to a buyout proposal of AUD 6.6 billion (USD 4.3 billion) by US...

Reaching net zero emissions will require massive amounts of critical raw materials, which are currently used in everything from solar panels to electric vehicles....

Gavin D. J. Harper, University of Birmingham With geologists hunting high and low for battery materials, an enormous new discovery of phosphate rock could have...

As more and more electric cars are travelling on the roads of Europe, this is leading to an increase in the use of the...

Stardust Power Inc. an American developer of lithium resources critical to the U.S. electric vehicle (“EV”) supply chain, announced its plan to build a...

Cornell University The demand for battery-grade lithium, nickel, cobalt, manganese and platinum will climb steeply as vehicle electrification speeds up and nations work to reduce...

Every RMB 100,000 increase in the price of lithium carbonate will have a 2 percentage point impact on NIO's gross margin, the company's CEO...

Geopolitical turbulence and the fragile and volatile nature of the critical raw-material supply chain could curtail planned expansion in battery production—slowing mainstream electric-vehicle (EV)...

Mark Maslin, UCL and Simon Day, UCL Without sulfur in the form of sulfuric acid, industries would struggle to produce the phosphorus fertilisers that raise...

Mercedes-Benz wants to become fully electric by the end of the decade. From 2025 onwards the luxury carmaker plans that all newly launched vehicle...