Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2021

Livent will supply the lithium directly to the BMW Group’s battery cell manufacturers from 2022 on. By sourcing lithium from a second supplier, we are securing requirements for production of our current fifth generation of battery cells. The value of the multi-year contract will total around €285 million.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 20, 2024

The company purchased the Rincon project from Rincon Mining in 2022 for USD 825 mn, and plans to develop a battery-grade lithium carbonate plant with an annual capacity of 3,000 tons. Rio Tinto said it is working with local communities and authorities to ensure environmental standards.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 16, 2024

The exploration pact grants KABIL exclusive rights to explore and develop lithium resources in five blocks in Argentina. ” The move aligns with India’s broader strategy to secure essential minerals from resource-rich nations globally.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

The latter two countries belong to the lithium triangle (Argentina, Bolivia and Chile), which represents about 55% of the world’s resources. Production is currently concentrated between Australia (40%), Argentina and Chile (50% between them).

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Japan is poised to offer technical assistance to Bolivia as it bids to develop its lithium resources and ensure a stable supply of the metal. Tags: Green cars Latest news Lithium-ion batteries Bolivia Electric cars japan lithium supplies.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2015

While other commodities are floundering or completely collapsing in this market, lithium—the critical mineral in the emerging battery gigafactory war—is poised to explode, and going forward Nevada is emerging as the front line in this pending American lithium boom. Without lithium, there will be no battery gigafactories.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

However, there are issues associated with the present supply chain of raw materials for battery production, particularly the security and supply of lithium. In addition, the emergence of lithium as a strategic resource and the associated geopolitics is troubling, she says. —Ona Egbue. The US is a major importer of lithium.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2011

A Korean consortium including Korea Resources Corp. KORES ) and steelmaker POSCO has entered an agreement with Bolivia’s state-run miner Comibol (Corporación Minera de Bolivia) to set up a joint venture to produce lithium intended for lithium-ion batteries. Korea Herald. million tons, respectively.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 5, 2010

The race is on to get ahead in the green car era – and now Japan, already the frontrunner, is planning to offer economic aid to countries that produce rare earth metals or lithium in exchange for supplies of their resources. That’s the report from Japanese business daily The Nikkei, which suggests the materials would be [.].

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2012

Lithium producer Galaxy Resources Ltd says prices for both technical and battery grade lithium carbonate in its key market, China, have risen significantly on the back of tight demand and supply fundamentals, with current prices up almost 17% on the same time last year. This means that as well as adhering to the 99.5%

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2022

We’re thinking about what this means for the world of batteries and all sorts of other components that are really mission critical for our company and our capability,” Ford CEO Jim Farley said last year. The company shut down orders after reaching 200,000 units, citing a shortage of lithium-ion batteries. The issue [now] is batteries.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2016

Driven by the rise of battery gigafactories and game-changing Powerwall and energy storage businesses, the world now finds itself at the beginning of a lithium super cycle that is all about securing new supply, much of which is poised to come from lithium superstar Argentina. Remember—this is one man, one company.

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Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

EV Numbers Are Growing, But Their Batteries Need a Key Mineral. EVs run on lithium-ion batteries. may be forced to rely on foreign countries–primarily China, Australia and Chile, Argentina and Bolivia in South America–or our lithium supplies. The electric vehicle (EV) revolution has begun and the race is on to lock down the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

China continues to dominate BloombergNEF’s (BNEF) global lithium-ion battery supply chain ranking, for the third time in a row, for both 2022 and its projection for 2027, due to continued support for the electric vehicle demand and raw materials investments. —Allan Ray Restauro, metals and mining analyst at BNEF and lead author.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

And in a true smart grid, electric cars will not only be able to draw on electricity to run their motors, they will also be able to do the reverse: send electricity stored in their batteries back into the grid when it is needed. We will own the battery. We will always own the batteries,&# said Mr. Thesen.

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