Opinion
Elon Musk has a suggestion for entrepreneurs: Get into lithium mining for juicy margins. It’s a pithy recommendation, but it fails to grasp the complicated challenges for producing more of the metal.Soaring lithium prices have dampened the excitement around electric vehicles. Musk noted that t...
Hong Kong’s veneer of normalcy has been shattered — and it’s exposed just how misguided and unrealistic the territory’s Covid-19 containment strategy has become two years into the pandemic.After months of no local Covid infections, Hong Kong reported a string of positive case...
COVID-19 was an unequal pandemic, with inconvenient to impossible circumstances. This has led to very different mental health outcomes, which have yet to be resolved, and it is perhaps no coincidence that the theme for this year’s World Mental Health Day, on October 10, is ‘Mental Health...
The price of everything that goes into a vehicle is going up. Raw materials — from the steel used for bodies, gear parts and frames to the plastic that winds up in bumpers and doors trims — account for a big portion of manufacturing costs. These are only growing. Add to that labor, logis...
With billions of dollars flowing to electric cars, investors are eagerly waiting for the next breakthrough in battery technology – one that will underpin the future adoption of green vehicles.They may be waiting a while: The technical challenges of making better batteries (and therefore, elect...
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