Lotte Energy Materials Corporation has announced it has completed the development process for the production of next-generation nickel-plated copper foil for use in high-density, all solid-state ...

High-nickel batteries, which are high-energy lithium-ion batteries primarily used in electric vehicles, offer high energy density but suffer from rapid performance degradation. A research team from ...

In 2016, Elon Musk famously said: “Although [they’re] called lithium-ion, the actual percentage of lithium in a lithium-ion cell is approximately 2%. Technically, our cells should be called ...

Two recent events have boosted the battery metal miners - Rapidly improving EV sales especially in Europe and China; plus Tesla's Battery Day enormous forecasts for future battery production. A ...

Batteries are the most expensive component in an electric vehicle, mostly due to how costly it is to mine and refine the raw materials needed to make them. They’re also the center of focus when it ...

Trade disruptions combined with output increases could create a 200,000-ton surplus of nickel in 2025, according to the International Nickel Study Group. Although nickel use in EV batteries is not ...

Twenty-one years ago, Bart Riley and co-founders bet their short-lived company, A123 Systems, on batteries free of nickel and cobalt. They believed the battery technology offered several benefits for ...