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• Aussie company Neometals is building a battery recycling plant...in Canada

  "Yesterday, Perth-based battery tech company Neometals fired up its lithium-ion battery recycling pilot plant in Canada. Neometals says it has developed a profitable process that recovers 90 per cent of all raw battery materials, like cobalt, manganese, nickel and lithium from used batteries. These are end-of-life or faulty batteries that would otherwise find their way into landfill or inefficient base metal recovery circuits, Neometals says."

• Daimler, BMW to invest 1 billion euros in venture to rival Uber

  "German carmakers Daimler and BMW unveiled a joint ride-hailing, parking and electric car charging business on Friday to compete with mobility services provided by Uber and other tech firms. The venture has five strands: REACH NOW, a smartphone-based route management and booking service, CHARGE NOW for electric car charging, FREE NOW for taxi ride-hailing, PARK NOW for parking services and SHARE NOW for car-sharing. "These five services will merge ever more closely to form a single mobility service portfolio with an all-electric, self-driving fleet of vehicles that charge and park autonomously," said BMW Chief Executive Harald Krueger."

• Albemarle's latest lithium demand number is just above 1.2m tonnes by 2025...

  "@sdmoores: Albemarle's latest lithium demand number is just above 1.2m tonnes by 2025. A figure that supply will never be able to meet in time. The energy storage revolution is coming but will be delayed!"

• Morgan Stanley: Push to electric vans and trucks will be led by Amazon and other 'megafleets'

  "Amazon's goal of carbon neutrality will help take electric vehicles "to the next level" because the e-commerce giant has a huge fleet of vehicles, Morgan Stanley says. "Amazon's plans to have 50% of its trips carbon neutral by 2030 implies a major push in electric vans/delivery vehicles," Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas said in a note Wednesday. "We think investors should prepare for more moves by megafleets to solve for sustainability." Amazon's plan requires "an aggressive adoption" of electric vehicles, Jonas said, "which may penetrate megafleet managers and logistics markets faster than the penetration of private/single-vehicle ownership models.""

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