Tesla CEO Elon Musk was frank in admitting to analysts on the company's fourth quarter earnings call that the EV leader is "between two major growth waves". While appearing to dampen expectations for ...

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 ...

Vietnamese EV maker Vinfast has announced it will merge with battery manufacturer and sister company Vin ES Energy Solutions in order to vertically integrate battery production into its auto ...

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 best way to predict the future is to create it.” So said Abraham Lincoln. Or maybe not. Whoever did say it was on to something, because technology has always shaped the way economies develop. In ...

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, ...

Do cash-settled futures contracts suffer from inherent weakness? David Greely, chief economist at new commodity exchange Abaxx certainly thinks so. His firm sets out what sees as these flaws in a ...

EV incentives could be laser focused on so-called gasoline "superusers", defined as the top 10pc of US gasoline consumers, according to a report from US non-profit Coltura. These superusers consume ...

Kwinana, one of Australia’s only two battery grade lithium hydroxide facilities, has had a tough start since its late 2022 debut — with its first train underperforming and its second unceremoniously ...

Chile’s SQM anticipates stable lithium prices for the remainder of the year but is “optimistic about a positive trend starting in 2026”, according to CEO Ricardo Ramos. While it expects 2025 demand to ...

Germany’s Rossmann, one of Europe’s largest drugstore chains, will not purchase any more Tesla vehicles for its fleet with immediate effect, the firm has announced. The decision “is based on the ...

A quarter (25pc) of Electric vehicles sold in Europe in 2024 will be made in China, up from 19.5pc in 2023, according to analysis by EU non-profit Transport and Environment (T&E). Chinese imports into ...