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Eagle Graphite and University of British Columbia partner on development of silicon-modified anodes

Green Car Congress

The supply of flake graphite is concentrated primarily in China and Mozambique, with Brazil, North Korea, Canada and India accounting for nearly all of the remainder of production. Flake graphite accounts for approximately 40% of global natural graphite supply. The primary sand and gravel by-products are sold to local buyers.

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Tesla models eligible for IRA tax credits in 2024

Teslarati

The IRS implemented some changes that affected some electric vehicle models on sale in the US market. The most significant changes to the IRA related to EV components sourced from foreign entities of concern (FEOC), which included countries like China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia.

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From Scooters to High Speed Rail, China is Electrifying

Plugs and Cars

Just as today we can look at a nighttime satellite image and see the black void that is recalcitrant, unelectrified North Korea, once that was China. Once EVs are cool in the W est, the Chinese domestic market will follow. Today China is as illuminated as the rest of the world, and they are carrying electrification further.

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Tesla signs lithium supply agreement with China-based company 

Teslarati

In the United States, Tesla teamed up with Piedmont Lithium, which received approval to set up mining operations in North Carolina earlier this year. market, the source of battery minerals has become essential to qualifying for the Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA) EV subsidies, which range from $3,750 to $7,500.

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How the Huawei Fight is Changing the Face of 5G

Cars That Think

US sanctions targeting China's telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies have crippled the company, effectively forcing it out of the global smartphone market and now threatening its domestic phone business as well. They have also shrunk Huawei's market for fifth-generation wireless network infrastructure around the world.

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Aurus Senat limo that Putin gifted to Kim uses South Korean parts, data shows

Baua Electric

The two leaders took turns driving the armoured limousine during Putin’s pomp-filled visit, his first in nearly a quarter of a century to North Korea, in a demonstration of the two nuclear powers’ increasingly close ties. It will start additional production in St Petersburg later this year at Toyota’s former factory.

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2025 Polestar 3 starts at $74,800 and 315 miles, US deliveries in Q2

Baua Electric

market but for export to some markets. market but for export to some markets. They’re due to be part of “additional production,” as Polestar put it, that’s due to start at a Volvo plant in South Carolina in “the middle of 2024.” Polestar reports that production has already started in Chengdu, China.

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