#Tesla cannot launch a $35,000 Model 3 without a Gigafactory that’s operating at or near its design capacity of 35 GWh per year. That will require about 7,800 tonnes of #Cobalt per year. Tesla doesn’t have a cobalt supply chain that can take almost 10% of global cobalt production away from the companies that are presently using the metal.
Speaking at a press briefing at the #NewYork Stock Exchange, Murilo Ferreira of #Vale made a bold prediction that half of the cars in the Group of Seven industrialized democracies — the #US, #Canada, #France, #Germany, #Italy and the #UK — would be #ElectricVehicles within five years.
He said Vale’s #Nickel assets would be well-placed to supply the battery makers building batteries for electric vehicles, which required nickel purity of 99.9%, with the #Canadian assets supplying #NorthAmerica and #NewCaledonia supplying #Asia.
Read more at: http://www.platts.com/latest-news/metals/newyork/vale-sees-nickel-opportunity-in-electric-vehicle-21198072
#Lithium, or white petrol as it’s becoming known, is a hot commodity. Demand for the metal could triple in the next ten years, driven particularly by a rise in demand for #Batteries in products like #Smartphones, #Laptops and electric cars. Only today a group of leading carmakers including #Ford, #BMW and #Porsche announced they wanted to build a #Europe-wide network of charging stations for #ElectricVehicles.
Read more at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04jf21v
The #Copper market will start to enter a “substantial” supply deficit from 2021, pushing prices of the industrial metal higher, the head of #Chile’s national mining association Sonami said on Monday.
“In the near term, mining companies are not investing in additional capacity and copper demand is growing at a pace of around 2 percent a year,” Sonami Chairman Diego Hernandez told the Copper 2016 industry conference in #Kobe, #Japan.
Read more at: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-sonami-copper-idUSKBN13915E
#NETL researchers hope the new #Nickel catalyst, and catalysts using other similarly inexpensive materials, will accelerate the installation of large-scale #CO2-conversion and #Hydrogen-generation systems for the production of #Carbon-friendly, environmentally responsible fuels and chemicals.
Read more at: http://www.energy.gov/articles/move-over-platinum-we-want-nickel
#PadmasreeWarrior believes that by leveraging the Internet of Things (#IoT), the next generation of vehicles will be better poised to eliminate the pain points that come with owning and maintaining a car.
Padmasree Warrior is the CEO of #US for #NextEV, an electric vehicle company and was called the “Queen of the Electric Car Biz” by #Fortune magazine.
Read more at: https://iq.intel.com/padmasree-warrior-transform-auto-industry/
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Polymet Mining announced it has applied for a permit to mine #Copper, Nickel and precious metals at a site in northern #Minnesota known as The Duluth Complex – a rich vein of minerals stretching from about 150 miles north of Duluth to the #Canadian border.
Read more at: http://www.mining.com/first-copper-nickel-mine-minnesota-inches-forward/
The Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit (TALOS) would effectively give its wearer superpowers, such as the ability to see in the dark, super-human strength and a way of deflecting bullets.
It is aimed at providing Navy SEALs and Special Forces with enhanced mobility and protection technologies – and will be tested in 2018.
Scientists at the #Massachusetts Institute of Technology (#MIT) are developing a next-generation kind of armour called ‘liquid body armour.’
It ‘transforms from liquid to solid in milliseconds when a magnetic field or electrical current is applied,’ the Army website said.
Potentially flammable #Llithium-ion batteries are in many electronics, including #Samsung phones. The Department of Energy (#DOE) is now spending tens of millions of dollars on creating a safer alternative, and one research project is showing promising results, reports #CBS News correspondent Jan Crawford.
At a research lab at the University of #Maryland, small, lithium-infused ceramic discs are replacing the combustible components of today’s lithium-ion batteries. Research scientists are showed us how they plan to build a better battery – one that can’t catch fire.
Read more at: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/samsung-recall-lithium-ion-batteries-catching-fire-research-lab-safer-alternatives/
Battery-grade #Lithium prices tripled to more than $20,000 a tonne in top consumer #China over the summer as demand surged, but #Chile continues to consider the mineral as “strategic” and limits its production.
Read more at: http://uk.reuters.com/article/lmeweek-chile-lithium-idUKL1N1D31DY
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