In my teenage years I worked for a couple of summers at a small amusement park as a ride operator. Looking back on it, the whole experience was a lot of fun, although with the minimum wage at $3.37 an ...

Lithium might be the new oil, but it’s just one of several materials needed to make the batteries powering today’s electric vehicles. There’s also cobalt, nickel and manganese, all of which have ...

Why it matters: Graphite is the largest component in lithium-ion batteries by weight. Accounting for losses during the manufacturing process, it takes over 30 times more graphite than lithium to make ...

China has imposed export controls on graphite, a key material used in electric vehicle batteries, in the latest move to control the supply of critical raw materials. Citing national security concerns, ...