Automakers regularly announce and launch new vehicles. In fact, there’s enough news coming out of the auto industry that, in any given month, its easy to miss even the occasional big announcement.  With that in mind, I feel it’s important...

Anthony discusses the increasing adoption rate for electric vehicles and how they are higher than expected for 2018. There is real demand by consumers for electric vehicles, and people are prepared to buy them. The real story will be in...

Cobalt 27 "Electric Metals" Blog · Podcast with Cobalt and Nickel Expert Bob Morris The EV sector is moving closer to mass adoption.  What will happen to electric metals when we get there?  We discussed some potential scenarios with Bob...

As you may have seen from the flurry of Media articles a little earlier this month, Katanga Mining is suspending the export and sale of cobalt at its Kamoto Project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The reason is the discovery...

With well over 1 billion users, Google Maps rules the world of navigation apps. So, when it announced the addition of EV charging stations to its Maps app earlier this month, a lot of people took note. The feature includes info...

Battery megafactories have become a buzzword in recent years. What are these factories and why do they have the battery metals industry so excited?   Battery Megafactories was a term Benchmark Mineral Intelligence created back in 2014 to describe any lithium ion...

As our newly-appointed Head of Strategy, Martin Vydra, has commented, despite the efforts of manufacturers to reduce or even eliminate the amount of cobalt in battery cathodes (called thrifting), the global proliferation of electric vehicles means that, even with less...

The use of lithium-ion batteries is growing at a seemingly ever-increasing pace, with the automotive industry’s use of these energy storage devices on track to grow 900%. This is expected to take current demand from 70GWh in 2017, to an...

Anthony Milewski, chairman and chief executive officer of Toronto-listed Cobalt 27 Capital Corp., which offers investors exposure to a stash of cobalt stored in Rotterdam and other ports, talks about demand for the key component in electric-vehicle batteries. He speaks...

Martin Vydra, Head of Strategy, Cobalt 27 Capital Corp. (TSXv: KBLT), a battery metals streaming and royalty company offering direct exposure to cobalt and nickel, integral elements in key technologies of electric vehicles and energy storage systems. Historically, whenever a...

This year has been something of a record-setter: record temperatures, record droughts, record number of wildfires — the sort of records that grab the attention of the public, instead of just the climate scientists. Since countries started keeping temperature records...

Cobalt 27 "Electric Metals" Blog · Podcast Q&A: Cobalt 27’s New Head of Strategy Cobalt 27's new Head of Strategy, Martin Vydra, has worked in just about every area it's possible to work in when it comes to battery metals....