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Tsinghua researchers conclude surging lithium price will not impede EV boom

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From December 2020 to April 2022, the Chinese spot market has seen a price increase by 830% for lithium carbonate, 100% for cobalt sulfate, and 60% for nickel sulfate, with their per-ton prices rising to $73,000, $18,000, and $7,000, respectively. In 2020, the top 3 lithium-producing countries made up 90% of global supply.

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Nornickel presents market review of nickel and platinum group metals

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In early 2023, nickel has been the worst performer among base metals on the London Metal Exchange (LME). While beneficial to consumers, especially battery manufacturers, the use of such nickel in the battery industry is not sustainable as it has an extremely high carbon footprint and other significant environmental impact.

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China’s Gotion is readying an EV battery leap forward

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The innovation highlights how battery era and uncooked subject material wishes are nonetheless evolving and unpredictable as the arena’s automakers search to slash prices hour boosting EV efficiency. Gotion, indexed in Shenzhen and with Volkswagen Team as its greatest shareholder, expects its LMFP battery to price 5 p.c

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China’s EV battery sector is making ready a unused leap forward

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One in every of China’s govern battery-makers reckons it has cracked a era to handover even inexpensive and extra tough packs for electrical automobiles. just lately unveiled a lithium-iron-manganese-phosphate battery — LMFP for shorten — which it says will energy an EV for 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) on every price.

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Hyperion Unveils Design of its Small Modular Nuclear Reactor, the Hyperion Power Module

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At the recent Annual Winter Conference of the American Nuclear Society in Washington, and simultaneously at the “Powering Toward 2020” conference in London, England, Hyperion Power Generation Inc. Sodium-cooled Fast Reactor. The HPM is a compact (approx. Global Energy Module (GEM50). Westinghouse-Toshiba. General Electric.

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Jervois to acquire SMP nickel & cobalt refinery in Brazil; concentrate from Idaho for refining, cobalt metal back to US

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Jervois intends to be capable of supplying refined nickel and cobalt products to customers across a range of industries including specialty stainless steels, nickel and cobalt superalloys, cathode precursor, lithium-ion battery and electric vehicles manufacturers. million) cash as a deposit by 30 December 2020. million cash (US$22.5

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