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1. Tesla “battery day” a possible blow to cobalt miners – Mining …
Sep 21, 2020 — Tesla currently uses the nickel-cobalt-aluminum cathode chemistry, which has a low cobalt content of about 5%, for their cars produced outside (1)…
Jul 11, 2020 — Lithium-ion batteries make up a signficant proportion of the cost of electric vehicles, but Tesla’s use of new cobalt-free technology could (2)…
Sep 22, 2020 — Tesla will make electric vehicle batteries with cobalt-free cathodes, it announced during its Battery Day event today. The announcement came (3)…
2. Cutting battery industry’s reliance on cobalt will be an uphill task
Jan 5, 2020 — Tesla’s first Model S, launched in 2012, was built with an average of 11kg of cobalt per vehicle, but according to Benchmark Minerals that was (4)…
Feb 5, 2021 — This statistic shows cobalt as a percentage of materials used in selected electric vehicle (EV) lithium ion batteries worldwide as of 2018, (5)…
Jun 19, 2020 — Tesla currently uses the nickel rich nickel-cobalt-aluminum cathode chemistry, which has a low cobalt content of about 5%, for their cars (6)…
3. Volkswagen leads Tesla in consumption of cobalt in EV industry
Mar 22, 2021 — New data on EV battery materials usage by carmakers reveals Tesla reduced use of cobalt, and VW consumed the most.(7)…
Apr 1, 2019 — 3 (a car formerly dubbed the ID Neo) contain 12-14% cobalt. In comparison, Tesla has succeeded in reducing the cobalt content of the Model 3’s (8)…
4. Tesla to Use Cobalt-Free Batteries in Model 3 Production in …
Tesla will start using cobalt-free batteries in certain Model 3s made in China, two unnamed sources told Reuters. · Cobalt is very expensive to Sep 30, 2020(9)…
Aug 17, 2021 — Other labs around the world are working on cobalt-free batteries: in particular, the pioneering EV maker Tesla, based in Palo Alto, (10)…
Cobalt use in battery applications alone could be greater than the entire world market for refined cobalt in 2015! Tesla Model S. ~14,000g Co. (30lbs).2 pages(11)…
May 14, 2020 — Electric car maker Tesla Inc plans to introduce a new low-cost, Tesla’s new batteries will rely on innovations such as low-cobalt and (12)…
Jun 17, 2018 — Elon Musk has set Tesla on a 0% cobalt future, which is — again– shattering all other EV manufacturers’ plans.(13)…
5. Tesla and the science behind low-cost, next-gen million-mile …
Jun 30, 2020 — As Tesla plans next-generation electric vehicle batteries, Without cobalt the synthesis process gets much more sophisticated,” she said.(14)…
Jun 24, 2021 — Panasonic, Tesla’s battery cell supplier, wants cobalt-free batteries to be ready and available for Tesla cars within the next two to three (15)…
Jan 1, 2017 — The battery industry uses 42 percent of global cobalt production, critical for Lithium-ion cells. Much of the world’s supply of cobalt comes (16)…
6. What Tesla’s bet on iron-based batteries means … – TechCrunch
Jul 28, 2021 — Elon Musk mused that Tesla’s batteries may eventually be two-thirds than nickel-based chemistries, LFP batteries are much cheaper.(17)…
Jan 13, 2021 — TOKYO — Panasonic aims to make cobalt-free batteries available for Tesla’s electric vehicles in two to three years, as the Japanese (18)…
Jun 4, 2021 — In a battery with 20% cobalt, the metal is about $10 per kWh. That’s why VW, Tesla and China’s SVOLT are looking at batteries that replace (19)…
Mar 10, 2021 — Right now, many of the materials are concentrated in a few nations’ hands. Most of the cobalt used in batteries today is claimed by China from (20)…
7. Breakdown of raw materials in Tesla’s batteries and … – Electrek
Nov 1, 2016 — We will look at an example with a Tesla Model S battery pack more about cobalt, which is used in the cathode of Tesla’s battery cells.(21)…
May 3, 2018 — Benchmark forecasts that NCM batteries will make up 70% of the total global lithium ion battery market by 2026. NCA has been far less widely (22)…
Feb 19, 2020 — For short-range cars made and sold in China, Reuters says Tesla will instead use lithium-iron-phosphate batteries, which are much cheaper (23)…
8. Tesla’s 4680: A Cobalt-Free Silicon Battery Solution – EE Power
Oct 20, 2020 — Cobalt is so prominent since it is able to hold its structure during high transmissions of lithium ions. Tesla plans to have a cobalt-free (24)…
Nov 11, 2020 — Tesla is is also evolving its choice of battery. The US-based EV maker always employed nickel-cobalt-aluminium oxide (NCA) cathodes, but adopted (25)…
Apr 29, 2021 — Tesla’s Model 3 cars produced at its Shanghai factory mostly use the alternative lithium-iron phosphate batteries. BYD, a Chinese automaker, (26)…
9. Reducing Reliance on Cobalt for Lithium-ion Batteries
Apr 6, 2021 — Cobalt is considered the highest material supply chain risk for electric vehicles (EVs) in the short and medium term. EV batteries can have up (27)…
Sep 16, 2021 — At Tesla Inc.’s ballyhooed Battery Day event last year, energy are often expensive: metals like cobalt, nickel, lithium and manganese.(28)…
10. Tesla co-founder has a plan to become king of EV battery …
Sep 14, 2021 — Straubel says there’s so much cobalt in old electronics, Redwood will always produce more from recycling than it needs for manufacturing.(29)…
Apr 21, 2021 — Most EV makers use NMC batteries; Tesla uses NCA. In the past, it has been difficult to push down the amount of cobalt in these batteries (30)…
Nov 23, 2020 — Nickel-manganese-cobalt batteries dominate the market at present; Tesla uses a lithium-nickel-cobalt-aluminium chemistry and is working on a (31)…
Sep 25, 2020 — New US battery facilities could curb the demand impact of Tesla’s plans to remove cobalt from its batteries over the next three years.(32)…
Jan 15, 2021 — Panasonic, a major battery supplier to Tesla, unveiled its new lithium-ion cells that contain less than 5 percent cobalt.(33)…
Sep 22, 2020 — Benchmark Mineral Intelligence forecasts that cobalt demand from nickel-cobalt-manganese (NCM) batteries used in EVs will increase from (34)…
Jun 11, 2020 — Tesla has claimed that the battery cells used in Tesla’s Model 3 are of the highest energy density used in any electric car vehicle, but these (35)…
Sep 24, 2020 — How The NES Conquered A Skeptical America In 1985 Tesla says it has developed two new chemistries that appear to be cobalt-free. That starts (36)…
May 28, 2021 — Electric car batteries contain critical minerals like cobalt and Today, much of that mining is concentrated in places like Russia, (37)…
Sep 22, 2020 — Most lithium-ion batteries found in electric vehicles today—including Tesla’s—use a cathode made from lithium nickel manganese cobalt oxide, (38)…
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(1). Tesla “battery day” a possible blow to cobalt miners – Mining …
(2). Tesla’s Shift To Cobalt-Free Batteries Is Its Most Important …
(3). Tesla to make EV battery cathodes without cobalt – The Verge
(4). Cutting battery industry’s reliance on cobalt will be an uphill task
(5). EV batteries – level of cobalt by selected manufacturer 2018
(6). Tesla Targets Cobalt-Free Batteries in All Models – BNEF
(7). Volkswagen leads Tesla in consumption of cobalt in EV industry
(8). Tesla Model 3 batteries have 75% less cobalt than …
(9). Tesla to Use Cobalt-Free Batteries in Model 3 Production in …
(10). Electric cars and batteries: how will the world produce enough?
(11). cobalt & rechargeable batteries
(12). Exclusive: Tesla’s secret batteries aim to rework the math for …
(13). Tesla’s Cobalt Usage To Drop From 3% Today To 0%, Elon …
(14). Tesla and the science behind low-cost, next-gen million-mile …
(15). Tesla Looks for Alternatives to Cobalt Mining – The Borgen …
(16). No cobalt, no Tesla? | TechCrunch
(17). What Tesla’s bet on iron-based batteries means … – TechCrunch
(18). Cheaper Tesla? Panasonic to develop cobalt-free battery
(19). Hyperdrive Daily: A Cheaper, Cobalt-Free Battery – Bloomberg
(20). Will the Race for Electric Vehicles Endanger the Earth’s Most …
(21). Breakdown of raw materials in Tesla’s batteries and … – Electrek
(22). Panasonic reduces Tesla’s cobalt consumption by 60% in 6 …
(23). Can we quit cobalt batteries fast enough to make electric cars …
(24). Tesla’s 4680: A Cobalt-Free Silicon Battery Solution – EE Power
(25). EV makers’ battery choices raise questions about future cobalt …
(26). Cobalt price jump underscores reliance on metal for electric …
(27). Reducing Reliance on Cobalt for Lithium-ion Batteries
(28). Why an electric car battery is so expensive — at least for now
(29). Tesla co-founder has a plan to become king of EV battery …
(30). The many varieties of lithium-ion batteries battling… – Canary …
(31). Risky business: the hidden costs of EV battery raw materials
(32). US cobalt demand outlook mixed on Tesla battery shift – Argus …
(33). Cobalt-Free Electric Vehicle Batteries Shown By Panasonic …
(34). First Cobalt Comments on Tesla Battery Day – CNW Group
(35). Tesla Wins Approval to Use Cobalt-Free Batteries in its China …
(36). Here’s what Tesla will put in its new batteries | Ars Technica
(37). As electric vehicles take off, we’ll need to recycle their batteries
(38). Where Was the Battery at Tesla’s Battery Day? | WIRED
