Do cash-settled futures contracts suffer from inherent weakness? David Greely, chief economist at new commodity exchange Abaxx certainly thinks so. His firm sets out what sees as these flaws in a ...

The majority of production from the Mount Holland, WA lithium mine will ultimately go to the integrated refinery its joint venture (JV) owners are developing at Kwinana. But, despite the processing ...

BP is both, at least for now, a player in the EV ecosystem and, as a producer of crude and a refiner and distributor of liquid motor fuels, a firm with something to lose from mass EV adoption. So it ...

US lithium miner and processor Albemarle has shifted some its conversion capacity at its Qinzhou plant in Guangxi, China away from producing lithium hydroxide to making lithium carbonate instead, ...

The 7mn ft² gigafactory being developed by Japan’s Toyota in Liberty, NC will produce and ship its first batteries in April, the firm has announced. It is committed to investing almost $14bn into ...

The CEO of an automaker should intrinsically want to sell more cars. He or she may have short-term reasons why that aim is unlikely or a low priority — be it production constraints or a product ...

“We have been successful doing that,” she insists. But there is as yet no evidence for any GM enthusiasm for an export blitz on its small, cheap Chinese BEVs. “Wuling is known to be an incredibly ...

Norway’s Vianode has signed a multi-billion-dollar deal to supply anode graphite solutions to US automaker GM. The agreement covers development of large-scale manufacturing capacity and supply of ...

Peter Carlsson, co-founder CEO of Swedish battery challenger Northvolt, has resigned after the ailing firm sought bankruptcy protection in the US. But potentially out-of-pocket investors and creditors ...

German OEM Volkswagen will own c.22pc of US EV pure play Rivian based on the former’s equity commitments to the latter as part of their software joint venture (JV), EV inFocus calculates based on ...

The Fiat marque of Amsterdam-headquartered OEM Stellantis has hailed the sales performance of its 500e A-segment all-electric city car, a different story to press reports of production pauses for the ...

BEVs, however, played a far greater role in the narrative than their current slice of the sales pie would justify. Why? Because GM sees its ICE profitability financing its shift to a future where ...