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What is Synthetic Graphite?

The outlook for the graphite market is promising due to its usage in the battery industry and energy storage applications, as well as steel-making. With China dominating the natural graphite market, ...
Why it matters: Graphite is the largest component in lithium-ion batteries by weight. Accounting for losses during the manufacturing process, it takes over 30 times more graphite than lithium to make ...
A New Zealand-based startup just got $18 million to commercialize graphite made of wood chips for EV batteries in Europe and the US. CarbonScape explains that biographite is a “sustainable alternative ...
Estonian company Up Catalyst just raised $4.3 million to make graphite with captured carbon. Graphite is used in lithium-ion batteries but it's currently mined or derived from fossil fuels. Check out ...
Graphite is a key ingredient of the modern electric vehicle battery. A genuine supply crunch could snarl the energy transition. President Joe Biden’s ambitions for an American-made electric vehicle ...
The Trump administration is imposing a substantial tariff on a raw material that is critical for electric vehicle batteries, which could significantly raise the cost of building EVs in the United ...
Graphite mines in the United States largely closed down seven decades ago. Mining the ubiquitous mineral found in everything ...
A company that’s trying to become a major American-based supplier of graphite for electric batteries announced Monday it will invest $800 million to build a factory in southwest Georgia, hiring 400 ...
The money, made available through the Defense Production Act, would help jump-start a proposed mine in Alaska and processing facility in Washington state. The Biden administration is offering up $37.5 ...