With an enhanced national electrification plan and clarification of Inflation Reduction Act provisions, the US is gearing up for the rapid adoption of electric vehicles. Manufacturers and politicians ...

IN EARLY 2020 Swedish battery-makers noticed something alarming. Their Chinese suppliers were no longer able to sell them graphite, a mineral crucial to the production of lithium-ion cells. The Swedes ...

THE CHINESE government was caught off-guard in October last year when America hit it with tough export controls on high-powered semiconductors. Communist leaders in Beijing took months to formulate a ...

Whatever it's been called - plumbago, black-cawke, wadd, black-lead - through century after century, graphite has been nothing if not humble. Last week, the United States slapped a 93.5 per cent duty ...