Alternative Fuel Vehicles

Elon Musk Takes Unusually Long Twitter Break

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Elon Musk Takes Unusually Long Twitter Break

Elon Musk is on his longest stretch without posting on Twitter in nearly five years, a nine-day hiatus that comes in the midst of tumultuous efforts to complete his planned $44 billion deal to buy the platform. The billionaire chief executive of Tesla last posted on June 21, marking Thursday as the most extended silence … Read more

Elon Musk’s Appeals for Lithium Are No Substitute for Better Price Signals

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Elon Musk’s Appeals for Lithium Are No Substitute for Better Price Signals

If lithium is the new oil, it needs better answers to widely traded crude benchmarks like Brent and West Texas Intermediate. Oil-price increases have been modest compared with the rally in the metal that underpins electric-vehicle batteries. Despite a recent pause for breath, spot prices for seaborne supplies of the key lithium compounds, carbonate and … Read more