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Nickel expert calls on Musk, Farley, others to demand Nickel sourcing in North America

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Following a short squeeze on Nickel on the London Metals Exchange, the cost of a metric ton of the metal surged $70,000. The United States ranked tenth on the list, with 18,000 metric tons. “We used to refer to LFP cells as ‘golf cart batteries,'” he said.

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Not to be outdone, on Tuesday the Norwegian electric car startup, Think, was in Portland being wooed by the state as one of 8 potential places to site their first car manufacturing facility in the United States. But that cost in a built as an EV is much less than an ICE’s costs by about 1/2.

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