Lithium

The evil empire of ExxonMobil is taking a slight reprieve from birthing oil barons to invest its time and money into a promising new venture – lithium. The carbon-clad gasoline company has begun drilling for a different earth material in the US, with an aim to become a leading supplier of lithium vital to current EV battery chemistry by the end of the decade. Do you think they’re using zero-emissions equipment yet? ExxonMobil is the current multinational iteration of a gas company whose history…

ExxonMobil is getting into the lithium production business. The company announced on Monday that it’s going to become a “leading producer of lithium” by opening its first drilling operation in southern Arkansas.The demand for lithium has grown in the past couple of years, with the metal serving as a key ingredient in the rechargeable batteries that power electric vehicles, phones, laptops, and other tech. ExxonMobil plans to start producing lithium in 2027 and says it could make enough lithium to supply over 1 million…

Exxon Mobilsaid Monday it is starting to drill for lithium in Arkansas and aims to become a major U.S. supplier for makers of electric-vehicle batteries by 2030.  The Texas-based oil company’s entrance into the lithium business, first reported by The Wall Street Journal in May, is an effort to reposition itself long-term for the advent of EVs and electrification in the transportation sector, which it dominated for decades as one of the world’s largest fuel makers. Lithium is a key ingredient in making batteries for EVs,…

RMIT engineers say they've tripled the energy density of cheap, rechargeable, recyclable proton flow batteries, which can now challenge commercially available lithium-ion batteries for capacity with a specific energy density of 245 Wh/kg.That's as compared to the ~260-odd Wh/kg delivered by the lithium-ion batteries in a current Tesla Model 3 battery pack, but without using any lithium, thus avoiding a forecasted lithium squeeze, as well as geopolitically sensitive dependence on China in the battery supply chain, and all…

Near the quiet town of Magnolia, companies including Exxon Mobil are working out how to extract lithium from brine water to help power electric vehicles. Near the quiet town of Magnolia, companies including Exxon Mobil are working out how to extract lithium from brine water to help power electric vehicles. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is…

The sight of bike delivery workers hustling through the streets of New York — oven mitts duct-taped to their handlebars, insulated pizza delivery bags strapped above the back tire — has been a staple long before the introduction of e-bikes and food delivery apps. Delivery workers are so integral to the landscape that it’s often easy to take them for granted. But New York wouldn’t be the city that never sleeps if its denizens couldn’t get an order of chicken wings and pork fried rice delivered at three in the morning.…

Sodium-ion batteries in general have lower energy densities than Lithium-ion NMC type batteries Recap: In the first two parts of this series, we discussed, from the Indian perspective, the critical role batteries play in achieving our clean energy and transportation goals of 2030. We briefly reviewed the entire value chain of Lithium-ion Battery, right from mining, raw material processing, cell manufacturing, and battery pack assembly to battery management…

Argentina's first plant for lithium batteries will begin operations in September, using metal extracted locally by US company Livent Corp, mining officials said on Saturday.Livent had agreed earlier this year to supply lithium to the new plant, which was developed by Y-TEC, a unit of Argentine state oil firm YPF. "We will start to produce the first lithium-ion battery cells in the country," said Roberto Salvarezza, president of Y-TEC, in a government statement, noting that the batteries will use lithium carbonate…

Mountains and a liming facility are reflected in a brine evaporation pond at Albemarle Corp.'s Silver Peak lithium facility, on Oct. 6, 2022, in Silver Peak, Nev. Threatened by possible shortages of lithium for electric car batteries, automakers are racing to lock in supplies of the once-obscure "white gold" in a politically and environmentally fraught competition from China to Nevada to Chile. Credit: AP Photo/John Locher, File…

John Goodenough, oldest Nobel Prize winner, with former US President Barrack Obama | Photo: University of TexasJohn Goodenough, the oldest living winner of the Nobel Prize, passed away at 100 on Sunday. Goodenough became the oldest winner of the prestigious award when he shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in chemistry at 97. Goodenough won it for co-developing the revolutionary lithium-ion battery which has transformed technology as we know it today. The portable and rechargeable lithium batteries power devices like…