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Massive lithium reserve discovered in Arkansas could power global EV industry

TechSpot

Researchers have uncovered an enormous lithium deposit in southwestern Arkansas – a discovery that has the potential to remake the electric vehicle industry and bolster the US' position in the clean energy race. Read Entire Article

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Ukraine’s vast mineral reserves are key to ceasefire talks with the U.S. Here’s what to know

Fast Company Tech

Ukraines minerals fuel industries and militaries Ukraines mineral resources are concentrated in two geologic provinces. Before Ukraines independence in 1991, both areas supplied the Soviet Union with materials for its industrialization and military. Its the largest source in Europe and the fifth largest globally.

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Minerva Lithium uses absorbent material to change the way we extract lithium

TechCrunch

Lithium, the crucial ingredient in the lithium-ion batteries that will power everything from your Tesla to your iPhone. . The problem is, extracting lithium is expensive , time-consuming, labor intensive and takes a serious toll on the environment. Image Credits: Minerva Lithium. The most precious of all?

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Porsche joins $400M bet on lithium-silicon batteries to juice up future EVs

TechCrunch

With its first electric vehicle now outselling the quintessential 911 sports car, the German automaker is responding by upping its bet on EVs, in part via a hefty investment in lithium-silicon battery developer Group14 Technologies. Porsche injected $100 million into Group14 as part of a larger $400 million Series C funding round.

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DuPont and VCs see lithium mining as a critical investment for the electric future

TechCrunch

“Mining” has become synonymous with crypto the past few years in the tech industry, what with Bitcoin piercing the $50,000 barrier and GPUs and ASICs worldwide scrambling to hash functions in a bid for distributed crypto manna. That’s one reason why DuPont is making a push to prove out its extraction technologies.

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Rondo tackles industrial heat to drop global CO2 emissions by 1% in the next decade

TechCrunch

It’s pretty rare that I get a whiff of a company that has a clear path toward cutting global carbon emissions by a full percent — but that’s what Rondo Energy pitched to its investors and customers, raising $22 million and setting some very excited environmentalists’ hearts a-flutter in the process.

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The most innovative companies in automotive for 2025

Fast Company Tech

As the industry grapples with the larger questions of how to create viable solid-state batteries or commercialize robotaxi service , the companies listed here are focused on the incremental steps toward a fully autonomous future. But BYD isnt focused only on affordability. Last year, BYD delivered more than 3.8