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  01 Mar 2021

  Electric vehicles (Singapore) — is the long-awaited future finally here?

  “The only way where EVs would fail is when people don’t see a need to switch over. But in the automotive world, the EV happened to lie at the heart of four megatrends – efficiency, connectivity, autonomous driving, shared mobility,” said Mr Terence Siew, president of the Electric Vehicle Association of Singapore.

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  01 Mar 2021

  Not just Tesla: Tech analyst says electric vehicle stocks could soar 50% this year

  “In my opinion EV stocks could be up another 40- 50% this year, given what we’re seeing in terms of a green tidal wave globally...This is one of the most transformational growth trends in the last 20 or 30 years in terms of EV, and many are going to play and win in this sector over the coming years,” Ives told CNBC’s “Street Signs Europe” Monday.

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  28 Feb 2021

  Teslas and other EVs could enter a golden decade with newly-introduced US bill (Electric Cars Act 2021?)

  With the Electric CARS Act in effect, companies like Tesla could reach an even bigger consumer market, bringing EVs further into mainstream buyers. Ultimately, the newly-proposed bill has the potential to usher in a golden age of electric cars in the United States. 

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  25 Feb 2021

  Apple supplier Foxconn to build first electric vehicle with Fisker

  Foxconn (the Apple smartphone supplier) has no experience in making cars but is moving to start building Fisker cars in the U.S...It will build on its recent joint venture with Yulon Group, Taiwan's second-biggest automaker, while American President Joe Biden is set to sign an executive order to review critical supply chains from semiconductors and batteries to vital materials for automobiles and weapons.

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  25 Feb 2021

  Gwen Preston - Nickel in Demand & Underpriced, Even Tesla Will Need Consistent Supply For Batteries

  SBTV spoke with Gwen Preston, the Resource Maven, about the main drivers for precious metals and why nickel is poised to be in the spotlight as stainless steel and electric vehicle demand is expected to rise in the coming years.

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  25 Feb 2021

  Blackstone Minerals hits new nickel discovery at its Tu Cuong prospect in Vietnam

  A significant new nickel sulphide mineralisation has been discovered by Blackstone Minerals at its Ta Cuong prospect, part of its Ta Khoa project in Vietnam...the company said that Ta Cuong (and the Taipan Discovery Zone) has the potential to add significantly to its massive sulphide mining inventory.

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  23 Feb 2021

  Canalys: China’s electric vehicle sales to grow by more than 50% in 2021 after modest 2020

  “Prospects are very good for China’s EV market in 2021,” said Jones. “There is already an excellent network of standardized public EV chargers in China, good government support and now a return to strong consumer demand.” 

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  22 Feb 2021

  Electric car sales forge ahead [in Singapore], powered by tax incentives

  Electric car sales have picked up, powered by new tax incentives that kicked in last month. Land Transport Authority Singapore figures show 60 full-electric cars were registered last month - nearly two-thirds of full-year registrations for such vehicles last year.

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  22 Feb 2021

  Global EV sales pushed battery metals deployment in H2 2020

  'Global battery capacity deployed in all newly sold passenger EVs combined amounted to 92.5 GWh, 93% more than was deployed in H2-2019...Looking at battery-grade nickel, the market researcher noted that 53,150 tonnes of the metal were deployed in batteries of all newly sold passenger EVs combined in H2-2020, which meant a 69% rise that what was deployed all around the world in the same period the year before.'

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  19 Feb 2021

  Future Energy – how Electric Vehicles transform Battery Demand

  Wood Mackenzie (The Edge's Simon Flowers): 'EVs are going to grow at a phenomenal rate: we’ve just increased our forecast to an average of 15% a year over the next 20 years. But cost disparity and the slow turnover of the car stock means it’s not until the 2030s that EVs displace ICE vehicles in big numbers. On our forecasts, there are 10 million EVs on the road today, 100 million in 2030 and 400 million soon after 2040.'

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