We’re planning to become a leading supplier of lithium, which is key to the world’s effort to electrify as much of the economy as possible. The unique process we’re using enables us to produce the lithium from deep underground brine with fewer environmental impacts than traditional hard ro...
Like other lithium products, carbonate may be produced from brines or from hard-rock deposits. In addition, a few companies are also looking to produce the material from clay-based lithium deposits. Though many companies are interested in producing lithium carbonate, not all investors are f...
Secondary cathode particles in lithium-ion batteries can be seen in 3D with FIB-SEM. Cracks in the secondary particles arise due to power cycling and lead to fading capacity. Isolating the cracks from the secondary grains can be difficult. The cracks are small features with a similar intensity...
Nanoscale structure in rechargeable batteries determines the batteries’ performance. Inspecting the components of such batteries is useful when verifying material quality in the assembled cell and seeing the impacts of power cycling on material structure. Secondary cathode particles i...
efficient vehicles is in the batteries. Hybrid batteries are large, rechargeable and take up a considerable amount of space. They're made by specialty battery companies, like Panasonic and Sanyo, chiefly located in Japan. Hybrids use nickel metal hydride (NiMH) batteries orlithium-ion(Li-ion) ...
An alloy of tin and antimony holds promise for making viable magnesium-ion batteries that are safer than their lithium-ion rivals. The metal that brought you cheap flights by Laurence Knight. BBC News, May 16, 2015. A glimpse into the world of nickel aerospace alloys. Superalloys to the ...
“Transporting the black mass will be the easy part,” one recycler told Fastmarkets on the side lines of the conference, “the headache comes from actually securing the batteries to produce it.” ESG expectations are shaping the industry’s approach to lithium production ...
But they saw the chance to beat the likes of General Motors and Volkswagen in EVs since the country had built a supply chain to produce lithium-ion batteries for mobile phones in large volumes at low cost. As a producer of rare earths, it also had strength in electric motors. ...
Asked in January 2024 to name Tesla's biggest competitor, Musk was clear: "Our observations are that Chinese car companies are the most competitive car companies in the world."9Musk said Tesla couldn't compete without government assistance helping to block that competition. "I think they will ...
For example, the batteries in electric vehicles rely on lithium, an element that is often strip-mined from South American rain forests.16Hydroelectric dams have low carbon emissions, but high impacts on the salmon and other species that rely on those waterways.17Green energy devices such as sol...