Tesla gets closer to volume battery cell production with 5-year lithium supply deal

Australian mining firm Piedmont Lithium announced on Monday that it has signed a five-year supply deal with Tesla. Under the terms of the two companies’ agreement, Piedmont would be supplying about a third of its planned 160,000-tonnes-per-year spodumene concentrate produce from its North Carolina mines to the American electric car maker. In a press release, […]

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PHEV: Real-world consumption 2-4 times higher than approved

Plug-in hybrids have been losing their allure as bridges to a new era of clean transport with many analysis finding real-world consumption and CO2 emissions far from type-approval values. Fraunhofer ISI and the ICCT just prove this to hold globally and across models. In their study published today, the researchers evaluated over 100,000 PHEVs in […]

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XPeng Announces Cooperation Agreement for New Smart EV Manufacturing Base in Guangzhou

Chinese EV manufacturer announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary in China, Guangdong Xiaopeng Motors Technology, entered into a cooperation agreement, a wholly owned investment company of Guangzhou Economic and Technological Development Zone. A…