GM makes a $625 million lithium-battery move to shore up its EV supply chain

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General Motors, headquartered in Detroit, is investing big in the electric-vehicle supply chain.

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Elon Musk's Tesla dreams may hinge on his blossoming bromance with Argentina's libertarian president Javier Milei

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Elon Musk met with Argentine president Javier Milei last week.

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Fool's Gold Might Actually Become Valuable

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Pyrite, the yellow metal known as fool’s gold, has another trick up its sleeve: it can contain lithium, a crucial element in the world’s quest for greener energy, according to a team of researchers that studied rock deposits in the eastern United States.

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The Great Salt Lake is becoming a toxic bowl of dust — it may also contain the answer to a greener future

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The Great Salt Lake During a Drought Hitting its Lowest Water Level in Recorded History
The Great Salt Lake has had record-low water levels in recent years.

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The true cost of mining electric car-battery metals

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Your average EV has six times more mineral content than a petrol- or diesel-powered vehicle. All those metals need to be dug, scraped, blasted, or leached out of the earth. There is massive demand for batteries as countries eye up ambitious zero-emissions targets. But what's the cost?

A new material discovered by AI could reduce lithium use in batteries

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Stacks of lithium-ion batteries.

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California's Salton Sea could hold enough lithium for 375 million batteries, and it could meet US EV needs for decades

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A biologist steering an airboat across the shallow waters of the Salton Sea near Niland, California.

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The White House unveils new rules to try and keep China out of the US EV market

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Ford announced it would collaborate with Chinese firm CATL on its new $3.5 billion Michigan battery plant earlier this year.

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The world's largest deposit of lithium may have been discovered inside a US supervolcano, helping to boost a mining company's stock price

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Scientists found a massive lithium deposit inside an ancient US volcano that could be a game-changer for American clean energy but spell disaster for Native Americans

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A general view shows the brine pools of Albemarle Chile lithium plant placed on the Atacama salt flat
A general view shows the brine pools of Albemarle Chile lithium plant placed on the Atacama salt flat.

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