Controlled Thermal News Today

Imperial Valley College (IVC) is starting the second phase of the lithium training program which will prepare the local workforce for the projects coming soon to the Valley.

A geothermal energy and lithium extraction plant is starting construction in the Imperial Valley.

Companies are scrambling to corner the market on U.S.-sourced lithium. Big players are betting on a mineral stew bubbling beneath the Sonoran Desert.

VANCOUVER – Energy Metals News – By 2030, almost all lithium sales will be for EV batteries, according to Eric Norris, at this year’s edition of The Battery Show in Michigan. Norris, the President of the lithium business unit at Albemarle ...

Automaker Stellantis said it would invest more than $100 million in California's Controlled Thermal Resources, its latest bet on the direct lithium extraction (DLE) sector amid the global hunt for new sources of the electric vehicle battery metal. The investment by the Chrysler and Jeep parent announced on Thursday comes as the green energy transition and U.S. Inflation Reduction Act have fueled concerns that supplies of lithium and other materials may fall short of strong demand forecasts...

Stellantis, which has said half of its fleet will be electric by 2030, also agreed to nearly triple the amount of lithium it will buy from Controlled Thermal, boosting a previous order to 65,000 metric tons annually for at least 10 years, starting in 2027.

Also, Texas is all in on Tesla EV charging technology, and Stellantis is investing over $100 million into a California lithium project.

MILAN (Reuters) - Stellantis has signed an offtake and equity investment agreement with Australia-listed Kuniko, the latest of a string of deals aiming to give the carmaker stable supply of key materials for vehicle batteries.

Stellantis NV and Kuniko Ltd announced Friday the signing of a binding purchase agreement to secure the supply of 35 percent of cobalt nickel sulfate from Kunikos nine-year exploration projects in...

(Reuters) - Lithium, the metal used to make electric vehicle batteries, has historically been produced using water-intensive evaporation ponds or open-pit mines. But a fleet of direct lithium extraction (DLE) technologies is on the verge of upending that.