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

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

A basket of prices for the key electric vehicle battery metal has dropped by more than 60% this year

China is the world's top graphite exporter and refines more than 90% of the world's graphite into the material used in virtually all EV batteries

China has already claimed exclusive rights to excavate 92,000 square miles of international seabed

The researchers say they’ve developed a high-performance ultra-long-life aqueous zinc-ion battery

Chinese companies across the clean technology supply chain are looking to lock up access to resources amid forecasts of booming long-term demand

The deals follow the introduction of the US's Inflation Reduction Act, designed to wean the US off the Chinese supply chain for electric vehicles

The world's largest battery supplier claims it has developed new materials that can deliver a 50% increase in efficiency in extreme cold at minus-20 Celsius

On Tuesday, the EU voiced concerns over China's planned curbs on exports of some gallium and germanium products and expressed doubts that the move was related to national security

The investment, from a British consortium that includes mining giant Glencore, will go into a wind energy-powered industrial park on Sulawesi island