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Electric vehicles (EVs) overtook smartphones and other high-tech devices for the first time last year as the main driver of cobalt demand, with the sector consuming 59,000 tonnes of the battery metal, or 34% of the...

(ATF) Japanese oil refiner Idemitsu Kosan plans to launch an electric vehicle next year through a joint venture with unlisted carmaker Tajima Motor, signalling a further shift out of internal combustion engines. Idemitsu has stepped up its...

The Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) is lobbying for suspension of import duty on all electric vehicles (EVs) as it seeks to promote local use.Further, Zera wants a preferential licensing fee for EVs given their importance...

Human rights advocate Amnesty International has accused the electric vehicle (EV) industry of selling itself as environmentally friendly while most of the batteries they produce use polluting fossil fuels and unethically sourced minerals.In a report published on Thursday, the...

The Association of Mine Managers of Zimbabwe (AMMZ) yesterday was on a technical visit at the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) to learn more about the power generation at the newly installed units 7 and 8 of...

Zimbabwe is starting to embrace electric cars with the Government, through the Central Mechanical Equipment Department (CMED) buying six electric vehicles from a Chinese company.Some of the cars are now being used at its driving school,...

In the mining industry, safety has always been a crucial issue - not least when it comes to fire. Therefore, it is not at all surprising that Dafo, with 100 years of industry experience, is investing...

A year ago, Tesla surprised the electric car industry when it announced some Model 3s made in its Shanghai factory will be equipped with lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries made by China’s Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL). While cheaper to...

The proposal by the United Kingdom (UK) to ban the use of fossil fuel vehicles by 2030 are likely to place Zimbabwe at the forefront of the lithium mining industry, given that it is one of...

Bagger 288 (Excavator 288), built by the German company Krupp for the energy and mining firm Rheinbraun, is a bucket-wheel excavator or mobile strip mining machine. QUICK INFO 1. It can excavate 240,000 tons of coal DAILY 2. Is up...

Economists and industrialists have expressed mixed reactions over the prevailing fuel and energy supply instability, which has seen economic productivity slowing down.The fuel shortages, which began in 2018, have resulted in buses, haulage trucks and private...

Vice President Dr. Constantino Chiwenga has declared that Sandawana Mine is set to become Zimbabwe's premier industrial hub, anchored by Mutapa Energy Resources' aggressive lithium beneficiation programme that will see the historic emerald mining area transformed...