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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Australian state of Western Australia (WA) has authorised a A$15mn ($9.3mn) grant to the midstream demonstration plant project at miner Pilbara Minerals’ Pilgangoora lithium operation in WA’s ...

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 ...

What Germany’s Mercedes did not say at its Sustainability Dialogue event in Stuttgart about its “Ambition 2039” goal to be CO₂-neutral across all stages of the value chain and the entire life cycle of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...