Electric vehicle battery

Electric car breakdowns, partly blamed by Greek traffic police for a roughly 5-kilometer traffic jam near the Parnassos ski resort on Christmas Day, have sparked questions about whether freezing temperatures can impair EV performance.

Current production levels of key minerals such as lithium, cobalt and nickel needed for clean energy technologies are insufficient to reach global climate goals, a United Nations agency has said.

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.

The world is at the "dawn of a new industrial age" of clean energy technology manufacturing that will triple in value by 2030 and create millions of jobs, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has said.

“We’re starting to approach this new frontier of battery research that could do so much more than li-ion batteries can”

Several companies have built lithium-ion batteries that can fully charge in a matter of minutes. Their next goal: getting these into electric vehicles

The primary primary energy resources in the the first quarter of 2020 dropped by 2.4 percent compared to the same period of 2019, whereas the final electricity consumption decreased by 2.2 percent by comparison, the data published by the National Institute of Statistics (INS) on Tuesday showed.

Romania's primary energy resources decreased by 2%, in the first two months of 2020, while electricity resources were up 2.1%, y-o-y, according to data with the National Statistics Institute (INS) released on Monday. The main primary energy resources January 1 - February 29, 2020 totalled 5.746 million tonnes of oil equivalent (toe), down 120,000 toe from January 1 - February 28, 2019.

Three researchers won the Nobel Chemistry Prize on Oct. 9 for the development of lithium-ion batteries, paving the way for smartphones and a fossil fuel-free society.