Imperial County has approved schemes to incentivise investment into lithium value chain, leveraging the region’s abundant brine resources.

The government of Queensland seeks input on its battery industry strategy, while an engineering provider has been appointed for a large-scale battery gigafactory in Victoria.

President Joe Biden’s recent invocation of the Defense Production Act of 1950 could help solve supply chain issues, but only over the longer term. 

ABB will provide technical expertise for a lithium extraction facility in Portugal which targets zero emissions status by 2030. 

Three recent interesting steps forward on lithium battery sustainability, a growing concern and area of interest for the clean energy sector. 

The past few days have seen various announcements across the lithium-ion battery production value chain in Europe, Australia and the US.

An examination, analysis and perspectives on the takeaways and highlights beyond the hype of Tesla’s latest and most ambitious plans yet, from market analysts, technologists and more.

A new project called ‘Zero Carbon Lithium’ is being established in Germany by a start-up lithium exploration company with the aim of establishing carbon neutral lithium production.

In addition to Silicon Valley, California could also be host to its own “Lithium Valley” as the US state’s Energy Commission met last week to discuss extracting the vital battery ingredient from geothermal brine.