Lithium – The goal of manufacturing an affordable five-passenger electric vehicle that meets the distance range requirements of average American consumers and has a fast-charging ability and payback time of less than five years is at the center of President Obama’s ambitious EV Everywhere program.
Lithium – A commercial partnership between Daimler AG and BYD Company Limited expects to unveil a future electric vehicle concept during an autoshow in Beijing next April.
Lithium – A report from PwC suggests that sovereign wealth funds have the potential to increase exposure to the lithium industry.
Lithium – Nissan has recently released a new six year environmental agenda and is expanding the Smyrna facility with a $1 billion lithium battery plant on site with a capacity of up to 200,000 lithium battery packs per year with the potential both for domestic production and export.
Lithium – In a recent global consumer survey, global consumer segmentation for electric vehicles indicates “potential first mover” or “willing to consider” interest to be over 85 percent in the emergent markets of Brazil, India and China.
Lithium – Lithium producers, lithium battery manufacturers and the broader lithium investment community received some interesting news on Tuesday, as the Department of Energy (DOE) disclosed the results of a major review of research spending.
Lithium – The challenge for investors to analyze the battery technology research and development field in order to gauge a future outlook can appear just as daunting as it is for consumers to make optimal choices for current electrical storage requirements.
Rare Earth – Toyota is currently developing the RAV4 EV, a pure electric plug-in vehicle. This is the first step for Toyota to move away from rare earth based motors used in the Prius.
Lithium – Dundee Capital Market's coverage of Lithium America's suggests the potential for the company to be one of the lowest costs lithium carbonate producers in the world.
Lithium – FMC recently announced that Umicore will be acquiring a series of product and process patents covering “high end active cathode materials." The market responded strongly to the news release sending FMC share prices climbing on relatively large trading volumes.
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