BEVs, however, played a far greater role in the narrative than their current slice of the sales pie would justify. Why? Because GM sees its ICE profitability financing its shift to a future where ...

Who is aiming to be ‘the Tesla of hybrids’? The answer is no-one, which EV inFocus has always taken as a very good basis for concluding that the auto industry does not seriously believe that hybrids ...

EV inFocus spoke to US non-profit Coltura and UK-based research firm New Automotive about the need for EV policies to target switching among so-called 'gasoline superusers' — the small proportion of ...

The majority of production from the Mount Holland, WA lithium mine will ultimately go to the integrated refinery its joint venture (JV) owners are developing at Kwinana. But, despite the processing ...

The world’s top lithium producer Albemarle has downgraded its 2030 forecast for global lithium demand by 10pc to 3.3mn tonnes due to slower-than-expected growth in the EV market. Last year the firm ...

Japan’s Toyota will get a new BEV developed for it by the Indian arm of fellow Japanese OEM Suzuki. The new model is scheduled to be manufactured at Suzuki Motor Gujarat in India from the spring of ...

US miner and processor Albemarle is decidedly less bullish on any immediate relief from a recovery in lithium prices compared to fellow mining firm Mineral Resources (Minres). The company in instead ...

US automaker GM continues to hail the efficiency and low cost of its Wuling joint venture (JV) with China’s Saic and Guangxi Auto. But it is still noticeably reluctant to commit to bringing its BEVs ...

European automaker Stellantis has yet to increase its EU-29 region BEV market share above levels achieved at the end of February, stalling slightly its European penetration growth story. A 6pc year-on ...

Detroit Three automaker Ford sold more BEVs in the US market in November than in any previous month. But sales of the firm’s three all-electric models still made up only 6.5pc of total volumes in Ford ...

German OEM VW Group has said that it will achieve cost parity with Chinese OEMs in the compact BEV segment, as the firm aims for 15pc market share in the most competitive EV market in the world. Under ...

“What is good about the Thompson mine ore is it is primarily nickel, and there is not much other impurity in it.” So Gary Annett, the head of Manitoba operations for Brazilian miner Vale, told the ...