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11 Jul 2018
Tesla to open Shanghai plant with capacity of 500,000 cars a year
(Read more)Reuters quotes local Chinese media on Tuesday as saying the Californian company has signed agreements with Shanghai authorities that will allow it to open a plant in the Chinese city with an annual capacity of 500,000 cars.
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10 Jul 2018
Electric vehicle demand will double nickel price – as soon as 2022
(Read more)After a gravity-defying run, nickel has now also succumbed to weakness in the industrial metals complex as global trade fears mount, declining to $14,125 per tonne on Monday.
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04 Jul 2018
Fastned Opens First Fast Charging Station In Germany
(Read more)Fastned began expansion of its fast-charging network beyond the Netherlands by installing the first station in Germany along the A3 highway at Limburg an der Lahn.
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03 Jul 2018
Amazon is buying a fleet of all-electric vans from Mercedes-Benz
(Read more)Logistics companies from around the world are starting to look at electric powertrains for their delivery vehicles in order to reduce costs. Now Amazon is getting on board with a fleet of all-electric vans from Mercedes-Benz.
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02 Jul 2018
Johnson Matthey to build UK battery demonstration plant
(Read more)Johnson Matthey is to build a multimillion pound demonstration plant in the UK to manufacture its low cobalt battery material for electric cars.
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02 Jul 2018
BYD Opens What It Claims Will Be World’s Largest Battery Factory
(Read more)BYD just opened its third lithium-ion battery factory in China, which by 2020 will be world’s largest battery plant.
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30 Jun 2018
Cobalt, lithium and nickel are booming due to China’s insatiable appetite for electric vehicles
(Read more)World prices of cobalt, lithium and nickel are booming as China’s insatiable need for the battery packs used in electric vehicles drove up demand, recreating the economic bonanza that fuelled commodity-exporting countries a decade ago.
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29 Jun 2018
Energy giant BP bets on electric car boom
(Read more)The announcement mirrors similar moves by Anglo-Dutch rival Shell and France's Total to expand into the charging of electric vehicles (EVs) which experts forecast will surge in popularity.
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29 Jun 2018
Here are all the gigafactories that Chinese electric vehicle battery giants are building
(Read more)It’s not just Tesla. Chinese electric vehicle battery makers are frantically building lithium-ion battery gigafactories—capable of producing massive amounts of power.
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25 Jun 2018
Italy Wants to Put a Million Electric Cars on the Road. Price: $10 Billion
(Read more)The populist government in Italy, Europe’s most sluggish market for electric cars, has a big-bang plan to put 1 million of the vehicles on the nation’s roads. Getting anywhere near that target could cost the state $10 billion in incentives.