Western Lithium Corporation (TSX VENTURE:WLC)(PINK SHEETS:WLCDF) has received approval for its plan of operation for its Kings Valley Lithium Project in Nevada, USA.

Lithium isn’t like oil: You need 2.5 kg of it to make a battery, and then that battery can last for many years. A lithium mine in Nevada could produce enough to make 650 million Nissan LEAF or 1 billion Chevy Volts.

Car Charging Group, Inc. (OTCBB: CCGI), a company dedicated to charging infrastructure that will be compatible with all electric vehicles, announced its intention to expand into the International market.

American Lithium Minerals, Inc. (AMLM 1.08) announced today that it has closed an agreement to acquire both the North Borate Hills and South Borate Hills Lithium Projects in Nevada, from the Nevada Alaska Partnership.

Petro Horizon Energy Corp. (TSXV.PHE) (PRZCF.OTCBB) (PH0.FRANKFURT), is pleased to announce that the Company has executed a Letter of Intent (?LOI?), dated February 5th, 2010, with Champlain Mineral Ventures Ltd.

American Lithium Minerals, Inc. (OTCBB: AMLM) announced that it has closed an agreement with Nevada Mining Co. Inc. to acquire three Exploration Lithium Brine Projects in Nevada and one in Utah.

HYUNDAI MOBIS CO. has launched a joint venture with LG CHEM LTD. to produce lithium-ion electric car batteries.

Coulomb Technologies Announces Flex Billing System for ChargePoint Networked Charging Stations for Electric Vehicles. Coulomb Replaces Subscription Model, Allows ChargePoint Station Owners to Determine Pricing.

International Battery announced they have recently teamed with HNU Energy to participate in a solar power generation and energy storage project in Maui, Hawaii.

Scientists develop new composite material that could revolutionize car design and manufacturing. Parts of a car’s could one day double up as its battery, according to the scientists behind a ?3.4 million project.

LG Chem Ltd. (KSE:051910), South Korea’s biggest rechargeable battery maker, has signed a deal with China’s third-largest carmaker to provide hybrid electric vehicles batteries.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced that one of the first grantees will be a project involving lithium-ion titanate batteries in Washington State?s economically distressed Chelan and Douglas Counties.

Coulomb Technologies announced that the Galveston Historical Foundation has installed the first of twelve publicly accessible ChargePoint® Networked Charging Stations for electric vehicles (EV).

Plug Power Inc. (Nasdaq:PLUG) announces that it signed a commercialization agreement with CITIC GuoAn Mengguli Power Science & Technology Co., Ltd. (MGL) for co-developed high power lithium-ion battery systems.

Axeon, lithium-ion battery systems supplier, is to develop a new high capacity battery for the electric vehicles Citroën C1 ev?ie, manufactured by the UK-based Electric Car Corporation.

Johnson Controls-Saft ha sido elegida como empresa suministradora de baterías de litio-ion para la marca Force Drive de Azure Dynamic que se integrará en la flota de vehículos eléctricos de pasajeros (BEV).

The South Korean government signed a deal Tuesday with leading steelmaker POSCO (KSE:005490) to cooperate in extracting lithium from seawater, to secure a source of the material used in batteries for electric vehicles.

T3 Motion, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: TMMM) is proud to announce the deployment of over 5,000 T3 Motion clean energy Lithium-ion batteries (Power Modules) throughout the world.

As demand for lithium grows, thanks to the push by the auto industry to produce lithium batteries, exploration for the rare earth is underway and in Nevada where the only operating US lithium mine exists, Lithium Corpora