The rate at which global automotive markets are adopting electric vehicles (EVs) is accelerating at a much faster pace than even some of the keenest market observers estimated at the start of 2017, and is opening up once-in-a-lifetime investment opportunities among the four key ‘energy metals’ – lithium, cobalt, nickel and graphite. Since the beginning of 2017, the […]
Metals Tech
Why Tesla’s grid batteries will use two different chemistries
Buried within Tesla Motors’ hour-and-fifteen-minute earnings call earlier this month was the nugget that the electric automaker plans to use two different variations of lithium-ion batteries for its two different grid battery products. The news could easily be dismissed as just a bit of battery geekery, but there’s more to it than that. It suggests that Tesla is not […]
