Green Car Congress

JANUARY 15, 2022

through its US subsidiary Talon Nickel (USA) LLC, entered into an agreement with Tesla for the supply and purchase of nickel concentrate to be produced from the Tamarack Nickel Project in Aitkin County, Minnesota. Talon Metals Corp., Talon and Tesla will work together to optimize nickel concentrate grades and metal recoveries.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 17, 2023

A 2019 study by Roskill Information Services in London found that more than 90 percent of the permanent magnets used in automotive traction motors were NdFeB. So if not rare-earth permanent magnets for Tesla’s next motor, then what kind? Among the most promising: iron nitride, Fe 16 N 2.

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Teslarati

MARCH 16, 2022

Musk eventually landed a nickel supply deal with Minnesota-based Talon Metals in January. Following a short squeeze on Nickel on the London Metals Exchange, the cost of a metric ton of the metal surged $70,000. Nickel increases energy density and therefore driving range, which is an essential metric for EV owners.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

In a speech in London in October, General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt said that the company would order “tens of thousands” of electric vehicles soon. The other will be located at GE Capital’s Fleet Services business headquarters in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, with several other centers to be announced in 2011. Earlier post.).

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