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Tracking Electric Vehicle Batteries in China
China has an avowed policy of forcing electrical vehicle makers to manage the entire battery…
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Blood Batteries – The Congo and The Cobalt
The Congo has a long, cruel history that peaked in the colonial era. Joseph Conrad…
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Cobalt Demand Increases – Should We Worry
By now we know that cobalt is in short supply, because the source is rare…
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Western Australia Calls Out for Ethical Batteries
Western Australia has generous lithium reserves, and is second to Democratic Republic of Congo for…
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Electric Cars Face a Bumpy Road Ahead
The IMF says electric cars face a bumpy road ahead. Their press release on August…
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Cobalt’s Role in Lithium-Ion Batteries
The chemical element cobalt appeared in Western chronicles in 1739. Although the Egyptian pharaohs tinted…
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Storage and Electric Vehicle Batteries Diverge
Tesla’s ubiquitous lithium-ion cells have populated both storage and electric vehicle batteries for a while.…
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Lithium Battery Final Part 4: Conversion
Nature.com believes we should combine conversion cathodes with silicon anodes in the next generation of…
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Phasing Out Lithium Part 2: Cobalt Reserves
We are curating an article by Nature.com concerning replacing lithium batteries with other technology. Yesterday,…
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Lithium Battery Countdown Part 1: Materials
Nature.com wrote an article describing the lithium battery countdown, as we gradually run out of…