South Korea’s Ministry of Trade, Industry and Resources announced that it will strengthen supply chain cooperation in critical minerals and other areas with five Central Asian countries—Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan—following the first Korea-Central Asia Summit held in Seoul from Se

On September 28, the Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC) announced that Geothermal Engineering Ltd. will receive government capital grant funding of up to GBP 9.8 million. The offer comes via the Automotive Transformation Fund, which is part of the UK Government’s DRIVE35 programme, delivered by the Department for Busin

On September 23, 2026, Exide Industries announced that its material subsidiary, Exide Energy Solutions Limited, had completed commissioning of Phase I of its lithium-ion cell manufacturing facility at Devanahalli, Bengaluru, Karnataka.
The commissioned facility has a capacity of 6 GWh and is designed to manufacture a

On September 22, Global Lithium Resources Limited entered into a binding Scheme Implementation Deed (SID) with Titan Australia Mining Pty Ltd (Titan) under which it is proposed that Titan will acquire 100% of the shares in Global Lithium. Titan is part of Titan Lithium, a UAE-headquartered critical minerals group. Th

On September 17, Alkemy Capital Investments plc, the owner of Tees Valley Lithium Ltd (TVL), announced that TVL has received an Offer in Principle for capital grant funding of up to GBP 18.3 million under the UK Government’s DRIVE35 Automotive Transformation Fund (ATF) program, towards Phase 1 of TVL’s merchant lithi

On September 17, Porsche announced that it has partnered with cylib, German recycling company, and other partners to produce battery cells using 100% recycled cathode active materials from its own used high-voltage batteries. The cells are now undergoing extensive testing. This was done to create a closed-loop recycl

On September 14, Arverne announced the results of the independent lithium resource assessment of its Exclusive Exploration Permits (PERs) portfolio in Alsace, conducted by Sproule ERCE, a leading international consultancy specializing in resource evaluation and certification. 
Sproule ERCE has estimated Indicated and

On September 14, E3 Lithium and Epsilon CAM signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding for the potential supply of battery-grade lithium carbonate from E3’s Clearwater Project in Alberta, Canada. The MoU, effective September 1, 2026, contemplates the supply of up to 5,000 tonnes per year over five years, equiva

On September 11, Vulcan Energy received its second permit for commercial lithium extraction under the Lionheart project from the Rhineland-Palatinate Mining Authority. The permit, known as “Ilka,” allows Vulcan Energy to extract lithium on an industrial scale in the Landau mining area. Ilka follows the previously gra

On September 9, Lohum announced that it has dispatched its first tranche of lithium ore from mining assets in Zimbabwe’s Matabeleland South Province, marking the first output from its Zimbabwe operations. The company holds rights to ten spodumene-bearing blocks covering about 1,100 hectares, with estimated deposits o

On September 7, LG Energy Solution announced that it has secured a key technology to improve the stability of next-generation lithium manganese-rich (LMR) batteries through joint research with Seoul National University. The company identified factors contributing to gas generation and capacity degradation during LMR

On August 28, Imerys announced that its EMILI project has been awarded a EUR 116 million grant from the European Union’s Innovation Fund. EMILI is Imerys’ lithium initiative in central France, designed to extract and refine domestic lithium from the Beauvoir deposit to equip 700,000 electric vehicles annually. The gr

On August 31, LG Energy Solution announced it has signed a multi-year binding offtake agreement with Smackover Lithium for battery-quality lithium carbonate to secure a fully integrated local supply chain from sourcing to production.
Under the contract, Smackover Lithium, a partnership between Standard Lithium Ltd. a

On August 26, Chicago-based Pure Lithium Corporation, a vertically integrated lithium metal battery technology company, announced that its Advanced Anode battery, developed specifically to enable ultra-long cycling, has achieved more than 9,315 cycles. 
The cells continue to cycle in the company's laboratory, achievi

On August 25, multiple sources reported that Sinomine Resource Group secured an export quota of another 300,000 metric tonnes of lithium concentrate from Zimbabwe. Sinomine operates the Bikita Lithium Mine in Zimbabwe. Sinomine said that the additional quota will help to meet the raw material requirements of its smel

On August 20, TU Graz University of Technology, Austria, found that deliberately creating defects in lithium titanate (LTO) can improve the movement of lithium ions through the battery material.
Normally, LTO is a poor lithium-ion conductor. The researchers improved its conductivity by removing individual oxygen atom

POSCO Holdings announced on August 19 that it has agreed to form a strategic partnership with Ningbo Ronbay New Energy Technology, a major Chinese cathode material manufacturer. The companies will cooperate across the secondary battery materials value chain, from lithium supply to used-battery recycling.
The companie

On August 13, Masvingo Lithium Technology Private Company Limited, a subsidiary of Sinomine Resource Group Co., Ltd., obtained the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) certificate issued by Zimbabwe's Environmental Management Agency (EMA). 
The 100,000-tonne-per-year lithium sulfate project has now officially transi

On August 10, Watercycle Technologies secured GBP 3 million in grant funding provided by the UK Government towards a GBP 6 million project to demonstrate how battery-grade lithium can be recovered from waste streams and produced at scale in the UK.
The funding has been awarded through the DRIVE35 Scale Up Fund. The 3

On August 10, Cornish Lithium secured grant funding of GBP 7.2 million through the ‌UK Government’s DRIVE35 program to part-fund a GBP 14.5 million programme of drilling and testing. It will enable the company to drill two 2,000-metre production wells and operate a Direct Lithium Extraction (DLE) demonstration plant