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Tesla Energy director believes Australia can become a large supplier of lithium

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Mark Twidell stood in for Tesla Chairman Robyn Denholm at the Southstart entrepreneurs conference in Adelaide recently. “Australia has the raw materials in abundance like no other nation on Earth,” Twidell said at the conference. Lithium prices declined in 2020, partly due to the pandemic.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Now Lutz envisions selling hundreds of thousands of Volts a year, probably priced below $30,000. This is different from anything Ive ever seen in my 40 years in the automobile industry." ( Detroit Free Press ). The target is to come in at the price of a midmarket car. This is like JFKs call for the moon shot," he says. "I

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The Magnet That Made the Modern World

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The two project leaders— Masato Sagawa of Sumitomo and John Croat of GM—surprised each other by announcing their results at the same conference in Pittsburgh in 1983. And the price of cobalt went up to something like $45 a kilogram. And you both found out about the other effort at the same conference in Pittsburgh in 1983?

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

But it is a price that must be paid, and GM should be commended for remaining committed to the Volt. Not really sure where all the money is going, but it seems like the Volt is already over-priced and under performing. Both Toyota and Honda offer efficient cars for a much lower price. Forget the black helicopter conspiracies.

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