Copper, Cobalt, Lithium, Nickel: Commodities and Batteries for Electric Cars, Homes and More

Zimbabwe has been mining lithium for 60 years and the government estimates that its Chinese-owned Bikita mine, which is located 300 km south of the... (2023)

But it’s proving ethically trickier than she expected | United States (2024)

Lithium is relatively scarce and mostly refined in China. Sodium is neither | Leaders (2023)

A battery supply chain that excludes China looks impossible. The outcome will be determined in Asia, where most battery supply chains are based. Th... (2023)

Making batteries for electric vehicles requires environmental and geopolitical trade-offs | Business (2023)

China is far ahead of the rest of the world in the development of batteries that use sodium, which are starting to compete with ubiquitous lithium ... (2023)

The deposit could power 400,000 clean-energy car batteries. There’s just one roadblock: a rare, fragile species of buckwheat, which for a mine migh... (2021)

The nascent recycling industry needs to economically deconstruct lots of formats. (2022)

CORNWALL, a rugged peninsula that forms Britain’s south-western extremity, has a history of mining going back thousands of years. Its landscape is ... (2018)

Reserves of cobalt and nickel used in electric-vehicle cells will not meet future demand. Refocus research to find new electrodes based on common e... (2018)

The FCC voted last Thursday to relax the rules for retiring copper wiring. This change was specifically aimed at Verizon and AT&T and is going to m... (2017)

THE ONLY thing that can accelerate as fast as an electric car is the price of the most expensive metal in its batteries. Once a niche input used to... (2018)

Shortages in commodity markets offer a paradigm for the post-virus economy | Finance & economics (2021)