{"id":946,"date":"2025-06-02T14:16:29","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T14:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8882\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2025-08-30T13:17:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T13:17:29","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thelithiumreport.com\/?page_id=946","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"946\" class=\"elementor elementor-946\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ed133c6 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"ed133c6\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-89d2ed5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"89d2ed5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">About Us<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-76e5731 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"76e5731\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>MIR was founded in 1991. During the 1990s we focused on market research in the civil aerospace industry, developing a global blue chip aerospace client base. In the 2000s we moved into electric vehicles and renewable energy, publishing landmark studies \u201cPeak Oil: The EV Imperative\u201d in 2005 and \u201cThe Trouble with Lithium\u201d in 2008.<\/p><p>&#8220;The Trouble with Lithium&#8221; was the first study ever published to raise awareness of future lithium supply for the EV transition, just as the GM Volt was being launched onto the market.<\/p><p>You can download some of our other publications from the <a href=\"http:\/\/thelithiumreport.com\/?page_id=37\">Downloads<\/a> page.<\/p><p>In 2014 we published an important technical whitepaper on the potential for revolutionising aerospace propulsion with a closed cycle supercritical CO2 turbofan.<\/p><p>In 2018, 2023 and 2024 we have given presentations at the Electric &amp; Hybrid Aerospace Technology Symposium in Germany.<\/p><ul><li>2018 A Supercritical CO2 closed cycle hybrid propulsion system.<\/li><li>2023 Application of the Coanda Effect to eVTOL Propulsion.<\/li><li>2024 Electro-aerodynamic Propulsion for eVTOL Applications.<\/li><\/ul><p>The Lithium Report is the first in a new series of reports we will be releasing on the Energy Transition.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Us MIR was founded in 1991. During the 1990s we focused on market research in the civil aerospace industry, developing a global blue chip aerospace client base. In the 2000s we moved into electric vehicles and renewable energy, publishing landmark studies \u201cPeak Oil: The EV Imperative\u201d in 2005 and \u201cThe Trouble with Lithium\u201d in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-946","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelithiumreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelithiumreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelithiumreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelithiumreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelithiumreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thelithiumreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1064,"href":"https:\/\/thelithiumreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/946\/revisions\/1064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelithiumreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}