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ARPA-E awarding $39M to 16 projects to grow the domestic critical minerals supply chain

Green Car Congress

E) will award $39 million in funding to 16 projects across 12 states to develop market-ready technologies that will increase domestic supplies of critical elements required for the clean energy transition. Re-Mining Red Mud Waste for CO 2 Capture and Storage and Critical Element Recovery (RMCCS-CER) ($1,000,000).

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Jay Leno towed a Tesla Semi with a Tesla Semi

Baua Electric

Straubel felt that transport battery packs from Tesla’s Gigafactory plant in Reno, Nevada, to its car plant in Fremont, California, in diesel vans used to be opposite to the corporate’s venture of zero-emission transportation. Falling off a truck is the #1 supply of trucker associate’s reimbursement claims, Priestley stated.

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America’s lithium laws fail to keep pace with rapid development – ET Auto

Baua Electric

Nevada, which has the only commercial U.S. These legal ambiguities are the latest impediment – alongside technical challenges and sagging commodity prices – to America’s plans to produce more of its own lithium and wean the country off foreign supplies, according to interviews with regulators from seven U.S.

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Ford will use module-less LFP batteries from CATL

Push EVs

Ford expects a compound annual growth rate for EVs to exceed 90% through 2026, more than double forecasted global industry growth. Ford and CATL – the world’s largest battery producer – have signed a separate non-binding MOU to explore a cooperation for supplying batteries in Ford’s markets across China, Europe and North America.

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WattEV aims to operate 12,000 electric trucks-as-a-service and a charging network to support them by 2030

Charged EVs

Now that phase is over, and companies are starting to place substantial orders, but they’re running into another hurdle—charging infrastructure needs to be built out, and managing it is a complex affair. These megawatt charging sites will be open to all fleet operators. These megawatt charging sites will be open to all fleet operators.

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President Joe Biden’s Tesla-void EV speech gave Ford too much credit [Opinion]

Teslarati

With Ford entering the EV sector with the Mustang Mach-E, it opened up a favorable introduction into the industry for the company that Henry Ford started in 1903. That’s not going to help the American economy, nor will it supply U.S. Tesla’s electric vehicles are the leader of the industry. Credit: EV Sales Blog.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Vehicle-to-grid is, I believe, the salvation of the automotive industry in the United States,” declared Marc Spitzer, an agency commissioner who was also on the panel. He envisioned “hundreds of thousands” of charging spots, as well as a number of stations where drained batteries could be exchanged for fresh ones.

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