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Early 20th Century Was the Golden Age for Electric Cars

Electric cars are making a strong comeback from the early 20th century, which was the golden age for these vehicles. Electric cars were the dominant form of transportation then, before being overtaken by gasoline-powered vehicles in the mid-1920s. The car in...

Global Rush Is on for Lithium, the White Gold

Countries all over the world are in a rush to find and develop reserves of lithium, dubbed the "white gold" for being a key component in batteries, including electric vehicles and energy storage devices. Recently, Elon Musk described lithium batteries...

Will California’s Salton Sea Become the “Saudi Arabia of Lithium”?

The now-highly polluted Salton Sea, in California, could become the "Saudi Arabia of lithium," experts say due to its high concentration of the metal. Global demand for lithium batteries is set to jump five-fold by 2030, and the world could...

Greece’s Astypalaia Island Turns “Green” with Fleet of Electric Cars

Greece's Astypalaia is waving goodbye to petrol and diesel in a groundbreaking project that is introducing electric cars to the Dodecanese island. As part of the plan, cars are being replaced by electric vehicles (locals and local businesses have been...

Erdogan Invites Musk to Build Tesla Car Factory in Turkey

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has invited Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, to establish a Tesla factory in Turkey, according to the country's communications directorate on Monday. Musk mentioned that numerous Turkish suppliers are currently collaborating with Tesla, and he...

Huge Phosphate Discovery Could Fully Charge the Electric Vehicle Industry

With geologists hunting high and low for battery materials, an enormous new discovery of phosphate rock could have huge implications for the electric vehicle industry. The reserves, discovered in Rogaland, southwest Norway by Anglo-Norwegian firm Norge Mining, are equivalent to...

Global Sales of Electric Cars Expected to Leap 35% this Year

The electric car industry is expected to break another sales record this year, according to a new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA). The report states that over 10 million electric cars were sold globally in 2022, with projections...

Elon Musk Criticizes Biden’s Electric Car Incentives

Tesla CEO Elon Musk had harsh words for President Joe Biden's upcoming spending bill on Monday. The world's richest person derided the bill, which is meant to target social and climate-related areas, saying that the President should focus on...

Tesla Withdraws From State Aid for German Battery Plant

Tesla announced on Friday that it has backed out of its attempt to get state aid for a forthcoming battery factory outside of Berlin. Tesla's CEO, Elon Musk, said that the move is part of the corporation's larger turn...

Elon Musk’s Tesla Electric Car Sales Skyrocket

Elon Musk's Tesla has stunned pundits by selling 241,300 electric cars in the US — a total of 102,000 more vehicles than the same quarter last year. It’s the most Tesla has ever sold in a quarter. The company sold...