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Baker Institute report: China has positioned itself as a gatekeeper to the energy transition; nickel case study

Green Car Congress

Widely ignored, although gaining attention, is China’s strategic positioning as a crucial gatekeeper to several key “green” technologies, including battery energy storage to support electric vehicles (EVs)—specifically, battery electric vehicles (BEVs)—along with stationary storage for power grids.

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Tesla says ‘nearly half’ of the vehicles it produced in Q1 equipped LFP batteries

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Currently, LFP batteries are used in most of our standard range vehicle products, as well as commercial energy storage applications. As a result of our energy efficient motors, a Model 3 with an LFP battery pack can still achieve a 267-mile EPA range.”

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Manganese Could Be the Secret Behind Truly Mass-Market EVs

Cars That Think

—Venkat Srinivisan, Argonne Laboratories “The higher number of minerals that go into a battery is a good thing,” said Venkat Srinivisan, director of the Argonne Collaborative Center for Energy Storage Science (ACCESS). But it has never approached the energy density or life cycle of nickel-rich batteries, Srinivisan cautions.

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

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Just two countries—Chile and Australia—account for over two-thirds of global lithium reserves, and South Africa, Brazil, Ukraine, and Australia have almost all the manganese reserves. To smooth out the supply and ensure reliability, the grid will need to add energy-storage capacity, perhaps in the form of.