“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 ...

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 ...

US EV pure play Tesla has doubts over re-running its AI and Battery Day events owing to fears over cannibalisation of its IP by its other OEMs. But it has fewer fears about rivals being able to match ...

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 ...

Global battery leader Catl grew its share of global battery capacity installed in new EVs by an additional 4.8 percentage points year-on-year in the first two months of 2024, according to data from ...

French automaker Renault has unveiled its new electric Renault 5 E-Tech, committing to producing the vehicle entirely in France from summer 2025. Vehicles and batteries will be assembled at its Douai ...

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 ...

France’s Renault Group sold a combined 109,307 of its Megane E-Tech and Dacia Spring BEVs in 2023 (see main image), a year-on-year rise of 33.5pc. But that measure might be slightly distorted by the ...

How many new BEVs will US customers buy in in 2024? It's a pretty key question for a large array of stakeholders on the global automotive industry. If you believe a December forecast from consultancy ...

“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 ...

A report on an October collision involving GM's autonomous vehicle (AV) subsidiary Cruise has found serious fault in the company's dealings with regulators. The incident in San Francisco, in which a ...

“The more customers move to battery electric vehicles, the more Opel benefits and the more Opel grows.” So says Florian Huettl, CEO of the Opel brand of Franco-Italian automaker Stellantis. It perhaps ...