Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2011

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. The global lithium market has been expanding by 6% annually since 2000, according to KORES.

Bolivia 199

Bolivia Li-ion Serbia Brazil 199

Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

domestic supply of lithium. Globally, 27 percent of all passenger vehicles are forecasted to be EV by 2030. It’s going to take some work get lithium production going. EVs run on lithium-ion batteries. Currently, only about one percent of the world’s lithium output is both mined and processed in the U.S.

Energy 78

Energy Bolivia South America Supplies 78

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. Bolivia was at the bottom of the rankings this year.

Supplies 195

Supplies Canada South Korea Batteries 195