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20/04/2021

Battery Technology – An Industry of the Future?navigation-next-alternate

We fielded many questions from the audience, not all of which we had the time to answer fully on the day – if you have additional queries on the below, feel free to message us at info@metal.digital ...

09/04/2021

Gigafactories and Energy Densitynavigation-next-alternate

A huge number of electric vehicles are required to cut greenhouse gases from internal combustion engine-powered vehicles, necessitating massive scale ‘gigafactories’.  Lithium-ion batteries ...

15/03/2021

Dr. Copper Electrifying the Worldnavigation-next-alternate

Why do we call it Dr. Copper? Across the business cycle, copper is very highly correlated with global GDP and industrial production. Hence, the performance of the economy can be related to the ...

09/03/2021

Electric Vehicles Go Mainstreamnavigation-next-alternate

Until recently, mass adoption of Electric Vehicle (EV) technology has been concentrated primarily in the small vehicle category, targeted at reducing the numbers of the highly polluting two- and ...

09/12/2020

Wind Powernavigation-next-alternate

Heat from the sun, converted into wind in the earth’s atmosphere, is used to power wind turbines.  Turbines are powered by rotor blades that function like airplane wings, the spinning caused by the ...

30/11/2020

Electric Vehiclesnavigation-next-alternate

In 2019, Electric Vehicles (EVs) accounted for just 0.5% of the world’s vehicles, however by 2025, it's expected that 7% of all passenger vehicles will be electric, rising to 38% by 2040. By ...