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Opinion: Could A Lithium Shortage De-Rail The Electric Car Boom?

Green Car Congress

We have all heard about Tesla’s Nevada facility that will at full capacity produce enough batteries to power 500,000 electric cars per year by 2020. It’s a viable alternative to petrol and in consumer electronics market segment alone, there is no sign of contraction—only expansion. Navigant Research forecasts EV sales will rise from 2.6

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Lithium Battery Recycling is happening in 2022 | Attero in India | Redwood Materials

Plug In India

Panasonic will begin using copper from recycled batteries supplied by Redwood Materials to manufacture new lithium-ion batteries at its factory in Nevada later this year. Because we are sick and tired of listening to petrol heads who complain about batteries. Your responsibility is to share this article/video with them!

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Sven Thesen, the communication and technology director for Better Place , a start-up that is gaining traction (see this recent New York Times article ) in its effort to create a network for electric cars in various countries, likened the concept of electric cars to cellphones. Fifteen years ago, how many people had a cellphone?”

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