The Biden administration's curbs are designed to wean the US electric vehicle battery supply chain away from China

Prices of the key EV battery metal have already tumbled close to 80% this year with supply outpacing the rise in demand

The US Treasury is expected to block an EV tax subsidy for buyers of cars containing batteries, components or minerals made by state-owned Chinese companies

Nio announced a similar tie-up with Changan Automobile last week as it bids to build a unified battery exchange network

Huawei has said the new unit will engage in R&D, production, sales and service of intelligent automotive systems and component solutions

The 2020s will be a decade of rapid change driven by the need to counter intensifying global warming; responses by leading cities show a pattern likely to be replicated worldwide

The factory in the southern state of Karnataka will be the world's largest automaker's first capacity expansion in more than a decade

Big cities are the places making a real impact on cutting emissions, the head of a global cities network says in the lead-up to the climate summit in UAE, which mayors will join for the first time

Spot lithium prices in the world's top producer of the battery metal were effectively down close to 80% year-on-year

A mass market EV known as the 'Model 2' is tipped to be one of the first Teslas that will go on sale in coming years; meanwhile the carmaker won a court base in China over a supposed brake failure

The US automaker still plans to start making low-cost lithium-iron batteries by 2026 based on technology licensed from China’s CATL

The electric battery industry is hugely reliant on raw materials, or completed batteries, sourced from China and other Asian nations