Batteries

Breakthrough clean nickel recycling offers a circular solution to battery metal supply shortages

Aqua Metals, a company specialising in sustainable lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery recycling, has announced the successful recovery of high-purity nickel from…

Why recycling is no golden ticket to endless critical minerals 

A few kilometres outside of Oslo, in a sleek business park on the banks of Oslo Fjord, is the headquarters…

US scientists make breakthrough for long-range EV batteries

The US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory has developed a lithium-air battery that could significantly increase the range of…

Opinion: In the great EV race, clean supply chains are the winner

Decades after Who Killed the Electric Car? gave rise to deep suspicions that automakers were incapable of change, the unthinkable…

Weekly data: Booming battery pipeline heralds era of renewables-dominated grids

For years it has been a key question for energy policymakers: how to balance the electricity grid when it is…

Elisa to roll out Europe’s largest distributed virtual power plant

Finnish telecommunications company Elisa has won a €3.9m ($4.16m) grant from the government of Finland to roll out a 'Distributed…

EU to launch quest for raw materials critical for cleantech

As they debated how to respond to green subsidies in the US Inflation Reduction Act at a summit in Brussels…

Weekly data: US outpaces EU in the race to build EV batteries 

President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is proving a massive boon for US green industry. The $369bn package is…

Britishvolt collapse shows structural weakness of UK automotive industry

In July 2022, then UK Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said the planned gigafactory at Blyth in Northumberland would be “transformational”…

EVs, green ammonia and plant-based proteins could supercharge net zero – study

Three “super-leverage points” could catalyse decarbonisation in sectors covering 70% of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new report…