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 ...

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 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, ...

Autonomous driving (AD) is the future: get in your car, say your destination; let the car do the work. Arrive fresh and focused 30 minutes later. Think about what you can do with the time — work, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk says that the company will spend $500m on expanding its supercharger network this year, in response to speculation that widespread layoffs at the firm's charging division spelled ...

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 ...

Adoption rates of lithium iron phosphate (LFP) cathode chemistry as an alternative to nickel manganese cobalt (NMC) in EV batteries will lag in Europe and the US compared to in China for the remainder ...

March BEV registrations in the US topped 100,000 for the first time in 2024 and only the fourth time ever, as a strong month for the country's all-electric light vehicle sales defied some of the ...