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…