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2023-03-03 Economy

US energy department grants $375M loan for lithium battery recycling plant

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Posted by Skidmark 2023-03-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [14 views ] Top

#1 Here's how Ram's electric pickup will go the distance with gasoline

Posted by Skidmark 2023-03-02 06:29|| 2023-03-02 06:29|| Front Page Top

#2 Reducing the need to buy lithium mined in China?

Now we know why they let in so many unaccompanied alien children.

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-03-03 07:07|| 2023-03-03 07:07|| Front Page Top

#3 Marlboro man leans on the windowsill of his mostly Chinese sourced electric pickup truck and uses his made-with-slave-labor iPhone to look for a charging station in the middle of nowhere.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-03-03 07:21|| 2023-03-03 07:21|| Front Page Top

#4 ^#1 - You are in electric power mode and you charge the battery with your ICE engine revving at a constant speed

So it's an electric transmission with a gas-powered portable generator. At least it won't require any more power plants or drain the existing grid.

Posted by Bobby 2023-03-03 09:04|| 2023-03-03 09:04|| Front Page Top

#5 I don’t understand why a government loan should even be necessary- batteries have to be the most concentrated ‘ore’ around; maybe the Lithium is in a hard-to-refine compound?

Posted by Glenmore 2023-03-03 09:12|| 2023-03-03 09:12|| Front Page Top

#6 The people who gave us Carter wanted to give us Adlai Stevenson and Hubert Humphrey too. Hold that image in your mind while saying "Paul Ryan Republicans."

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-03-03 10:13|| 2023-03-03 10:13|| Front Page Top

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