Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Approximately 70% of world lithium carbonate and other lithium chemicals production is produced through a solar evaporation process using brine from salt lakes in South America. The Global annual demand, which is currently situated at approximately 150,000 tons (lithium carbonate equivalent) is expected to exceed 250,000 tons in 2017.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2019

An estimated 84% of global transportation-attributable deaths occurred in G20 countries, and 70% occurred in the four largest vehicle markets in 2015: China, India, the European Union, and the United States. million premature deaths annually from heart and lung diseases and diabetes, according to the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study 2017.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Guarani is one of the leading companies in the Brazilian sugar and ethanol market, ranked third among the largest sugar producers in Brazil. The target for the partnerships and divestments program in the period 2017-2018 will automatically be increased by the respective amounts, to the sum of US$21 billion.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

The first plant is to be wholly owned by Porta and is anticipated to begin producing isobutanol in 2017. For these projects, Gevo would be the direct licensor of its technology and the marketer for any isobutanol produced, and would expect to receive all royalties and sales and marketing fees generated from these projects.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2018

With an increasing amount of Li-ion battery raw material refining and processing centred in China, and it being front-and-center of Li-ion demand growth, Chinese Li-ion value chain participants have turned to Australia, Africa and South America to secure the feedstock necessary for their downstream requirements.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2019

In 2017, Ford announced it would invest $1 billion over five years in Argo AI—an artificial intelligence software startup founded by former Google and Uber leaders—to develop an SAE Level 4 virtual driver system for the automaker’s autonomous vehicle coming in 2021, and for potential license to other companies. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2016

This annual sales estimate, combining both passenger and commercial vehicles, would add more than 232 million turbocharged vehicles globally between 2017 and 2021—an increase of 35% from today. China will be the highest growth market for turbocharged light vehicles with an 16 point increase in penetration of total sales.

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DECEMBER 16, 2022

The cross-border index shows that the global search index for new energy charging piles has been rising year by year since 2017, especially since 2020. Among them, Russia’s new energy vehicles and their charging pile market prospects can be expected in the future. Cross-border e-commerce shines in the European market.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Source: EIA and Argus Media group, China Methanol to Energy Study , January 2017. Beginning with its February Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), EIA incorporated revisions to historical international liquids consumption data into the STEO’s international liquid fuels market balances. Click to enlarge. Background.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Global utility market. The utility segment now accounts for more than 13 million sales annually—175 of the global automotive market. Utility vehicle sales in China are projected to grow significantly, by more than 100% from 2012 to 2017, according to IHS Automotive.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2018

In 2017, for example, Novelis announced it provided aluminum solutions for NIO’s electric SUV ES8. Worldwide, automotive aluminum demand is projected to nearly triple over the next eight years with the largest growth potential to be in China, as both domestic and global automakers increase aluminum penetration and production in the market.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

“The thing to keep in mind is that the large-scale lithium-battery sector is relatively young,” noted Sam Abuelsamid, the principal analyst for transportation and mobility at the market intelligence firm Guidehouse Insights. The vast majority of batteries are nowhere near end of life yet. They’re not ready for recycling.”

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