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Roskill: Yahua-Tesla deal indicative of increasing capability and numbers of Chinese lithium convertors

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Until recently, there have been only five Chinese mineral-based convertors supplying or scheduled to supply battery-grade lithium hydroxide to the overseas market: Ganfeng Lithium, Tianqi Lithium, Zhiyuan Lithium, General Lithium, and Yahua Lithium.

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Geely testing Emgrand methanol hybrid sedan in -40 C conditions

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F) Arctic conditions in the frigid northern Chinese province of Heilongjiang. With methanol fuel price at Chinese pumps around 3RMB/L (€0.42/L Clean methanol from green and renewable sources is the most realistic and effective path to reducing emissions and achieving carbon neutrality. From 0-100km/s takes 8.8

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Geely supporting Danish initiative on e-methanol with vehicle trials in Aalborg

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Denmark has been a global leader in sustainability, and has pledged to reduce its carbon emissions by 70% by 2030. In the future, Geely Holding methanol vehicles will undergo EU certification and promotion to other European markets in support of accelerating the goal of reaching carbon neutrality.

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Roskill: Chinese companies step up their pursuit of lithium resources

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Jilin Jien, which bought the Québec Lithium mine and lithium carbonate conversion plant from its creditors in 2016, is understood to have entered bankruptcy in China and had struggled to raise the funds to complete the re-commissioning.

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Showa Denko to expand production capacities for carbon-based anode materials for Li-ion batteries

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Showa Denko will expand its production capacity for SCMG carbon-based anode material used in lithium-ion rechargeable batteries (LIBs) in response to growing demand from customers. Commercial operation of the expanded production facility is scheduled to start at the end of 2016.

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Carnegie-led team creates new extremely hard carbon nitride compound

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New work from a team led by the Carnegie Institution for Science’s Alexander Goncharov has created a new extremely incompressible carbon nitride compound. They say it could be the prototype for a whole new family of superhard materials, due to the unexpected ratio of carbon and nitrogen atoms. Producing them, however, has been elusive.

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Chinese researchers develop novel aluminum–graphite dual-ion battery

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A team from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a novel, environmentally friendly low-cost battery. 2016) “A Novel Aluminum–Graphite Dual-Ion Battery.” times), and energy density (~1.6-2.8 and Lee, C.-S. Energy Mater. doi: 10.1002/aenm.201502588. 201502588.

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