Abram Brown

I edit The Information's Weekend section
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Abram Brown is the editor of The Information’s Weekend section, a magazine-style chronicle of the world's most interesting people and most intriguing companies. We cover the players, powers and culture within Silicon Valley, as well as Hollywood and Wall Street—and examine how influence and sway extends across those worlds.
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Manchin-Schumer and electric cars
Posted bySteve LeVine
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Sens. Schumer and Manchin have smartly gone both ways on China: The deal takes a page from China's winning EV-battery strategy—extending $7,500 in EV purchase credits, but requiring that much of the battery be built in North America. And it's anti-China—the metals inside the battery would have to be from a U.S. free trade partner, which China isn't.
#china#electric vehicles#lithium-ion batteries
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Ford has made a big strategic battery and raw materials play
Posted bySteve LeVine
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Ford this morning became the first Western automaker to concretely make a shift away from supply-challenged nickel-based batteries, and to plentiful iron. It was a triple-play announcement: building U.S. LFP capacity; buying full LFP cell-to-pack packs from CATL for the Mustang Mach-E; and doing a possible nickel deal in Indonesia. Look for copycat announcements very soon.
#lfp#lithium ion batteries
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Celina Mikolajczak's next job
Posted bySteve LeVine
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A few weeks after her exit from QuantumScape, Celina Mikolajczak moves to lithium-sulfur developer Lyten as chief battery technology officer. Lithium sulfur is super early in development—well behind lithium metal for example. It will be awhile before it's scaled up.
#batteries#electric vehicles
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Why China looks likely to keep dominating batteries
Posted bySteve LeVine
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While the West wrings its hands over China's dominance in electric vehicles and batteries, its companies keep building their advantage. The latest is Gangfeng, the Chinese lithium giant, which yesterday announced a billion-dollar deal to buy Argentina's Lithea, a lithium brine producer. Apart from Tesla, is any Western company demonstrating this kind of commercial ne...
#china#electric vehicles#lithium-ion batteries
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