Tag: Umicore
Kommt der Bergbau zurück nach Europa?
Mine im schwedischen Kiruna Aktuell wird bei Kiruna nur Eisenerz abgebaut, bald könnten seltene Erden dazukommen. (Foto: Bloomberg) Düsseldorf, Brüssel, Zürich Seit einigen Tagen holt die Firma Vulcan Energy im rheinland-pfälzischen…
Vulcan Energy nimmt Lithium-Demonstrationsanlage in Betrieb
Vulcan Energy Lithiumforschung im Labor von Vulcan Energy. (Foto: Bloomberg) Düsseldorf Unterhalb des Oberrheingrabens liegt Europas größtes Lithiumvorkommen. Das Karlsruher Start-up Vulcan Energy will den begehrten Rohstoff per Geothermie fördern und…
VW’s largest battery site is to be built in Canada
Volkswagen battery For its electric strategy, VW expects a battery requirement of between 60 and 100 gigawatt hours in North America by 2030. (Photo: Volkswagen AG) Shanghai The new battery…
Infrastructure stocks benefit from mega trends
infrastructure projects Companies such as energy suppliers or telecommunications companies are considered crisis-resistant. Frankfurt For years they led a niche existence on the stock exchange, but last year they became…
Infrastructure stocks benefit from mega trends
infrastructure projects Companies such as energy suppliers or telecommunications companies are considered crisis-resistant. Frankfurt. For years they led a niche existence on the stock exchange, but last year they became…
VW explores construction of battery plant in Ontario
Dusseldorf When it comes to potential locations for battery cell factories at Volkswagen, the group is usually tight-lipped. The search involves funding in the millions, different regions compete with each…
What is really important in Davos
Dusseldorf After two years of the pandemic, the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum will take place again in January and again in Davos. 2500 decision-makers from all over…
Accurec wants to start first production in Europe
Accurec in Karlsruhe The battery recycling company has been around for 25 years. (Photo: Accurec) Dusseldorf It doesn’t matter whether it’s an electric car, smartphone, tablet or Bluetooth headphones –…
Crypto startup under pressure over Russia ties to Potanin
Vladimir Potanin The oligarch and Putin confidante controls a crypto start-up in Switzerland. (Photo: Reuters) Zurich The plans could hardly have been more ambitious: the Swiss crypto start-up Eternyze has…
How Western industries can make themselves less dependent on raw material imports
Volkswagen – batteries for electric cars VW wants to build six gigafactories in Europe by around 2030, which should be sufficient for a total production of around five million electric…
Battery Alliance invests three billion euros
Electric car production at VW in Emden In December, the Wolfsburg-based company announced a technology alliance with Umicore for the large-scale production of batteries. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf The Volkswagen Group…
US battery recyclers & Volkswagen form alliance
new York After Elon Musk, one of his long-time companions could soon be investing in Germany. JB Straubel, Tesla’s fifth employee and long-time head of technology, is examining the possibility…
Carmaker wants to get into the mining business
Miners in Canada Volkswagen wants to control the supply of raw materials for its battery cell production. (Photo: Bloomberg/Getty Images) New York, Vienna, Zurich In view of the impending bottlenecks…
Carmaker wants to get into the mining business
New York, Vienna, Zurich In view of the impending bottlenecks in important raw materials for battery production, Volkswagen wants to focus more on Canada. The car manufacturer and the Canadian…
VW wants to get into the mining business
New York, Vienna, Zurich In view of the impending bottlenecks in important raw materials for battery production, Volkswagen wants to focus more on Canada. The car manufacturer and the Canadian…
US battery recyclers & Volkswagen form alliance
new York The environmental balance of the electric car also depends on a crucial question: What becomes of the batteries when they are no longer needed? Batteries are not only…
How geothermal energy could supply Germany with heat
Dusseldorf In the vocabulary of most politicians, the term “eco-heat” has not yet been anchored, criticizes Inga Moeck, Head of the Department of Geothermics and Information Systems at the Leibniz…
Dispute over one of the largest lithium deposits
View of the Upper Rhine Plain Europe’s largest lithium source is located in the so-called Upper Rhine Graben. (Photo: Juergen Feuerer / Chrome Orange /) Zurich, Düsseldorf Given that Vulcan…
How good is Tesla’s new super battery?
Struggle for better batteries So far, LFP batteries have mainly been used in the low-price segment by Chinese manufacturers such as BYD or CATL, but now Tesla is also increasingly…
Europe is becoming the new epicenter
Electric cars Material manufacturers are preparing for the boom in demand. (Photo: dpa) Düsseldorf, Lyon Europe will become the world’s second largest battery market in the next few years. Only…