German OEM Volkswagen remains committed to selling down ownership in its Powerco EV battery subsidiary. But negative net cash flow that threatened the €2bn ($2.2bn) mark last year may curtail appetite ...

BP is both, at least for now, a player in the EV ecosystem and, as a producer of crude and a refiner and distributor of liquid motor fuels, a firm with something to lose from mass EV adoption. So it ...

“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 ...

“Your Ebitda in this business is zero. Last year was zero.” Chetan Udeshi, analyst at bank JP Morgan, while apologising for his bluntness, pulled no punches about the performance of the battery ...

US lithium miner and processor Albemarle has shifted some its conversion capacity at its Qinzhou plant in Guangxi, China away from producing lithium hydroxide to making lithium carbonate instead, ...

The CEO of an automaker should intrinsically want to sell more cars. He or she may have short-term reasons why that aim is unlikely or a low priority — be it production constraints or a product ...

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 ...

Norway’s Vianode has signed a multi-billion-dollar deal to supply anode graphite solutions to US automaker GM. The agreement covers development of large-scale manufacturing capacity and supply of ...

It is no secret that the German BEV market has been incredibly tough going in 2004, as the double whammy of subsidies withdrawn at the end of August and, unexpectedly, in December last year has sent ...

Ceer, the Saudi Arabian EV joint venture (JV) between the Kingdom’s sovereign wealth fund the PIF and Taiwanese electronics heavyweight Foxconn, has signed a deal with Croatia’s Rimac for the supply ...

Finnish EV charging services firm EVA Global has filed for bankruptcy, as the charging sector continues to prove challenging in the current environment of slower-than-expected EV adoption EVA Global ...