article thumbnail

Stellantis eyes nickel supply in Indonesia

Teslarati

The legacy automaker is reportedly discussing a potential investment into a nickel smelter in Indonesia with Vale and China-based Huayou Cobalt. PT Vale Indonesia is a nickel miner that invests in Sulawesi island. Stellantis, Vale, and Huayou Cobalt are considering an investment in a high-pressure acid-leaching plant in Indonesia.

Indonesia 103
article thumbnail

Chinese steel group Tsingshan investing $375M to build lithium plant in Argentina with Eramet

Green Car Congress

The two companies have partnered before, with the Weda Bay Nickel project in Indonesia. The project consists in extracting brine from the salar and processing it into lithium carbonate. Purification of the lithium, then reaction with sodium carbonate to convert it to lithium carbonate.

Argentina 335
article thumbnail

Aussie electric truck maker SEA joins the race to build a Toyota Hilux EV

EV Central

Fleets deliver more bang for your buck in terms of orders per customer and there is pressure on them to meet carbon emission reduction goals. But while Roev and H2X are start-ups yet to go into production, SEA was established in 2013 in Melbourne and began converting trucks using its own battery electric powertrains in 2017.

Toyota 124
article thumbnail

Researchers show oil palm plantation expansion a significant source of CO2; projected to contribute more than all of Canada’s current fossil fuel emissions by 2020

Green Car Congress

Its expanding production is driving rainforest destruction and massive carbon dioxide emissions, according to a new study led by researchers at Stanford and Yale universities. Indonesia is the leading producer of palm and palm kernel oil. Marion Adeney (2012) Carbon emissions from forest conversion by Kalimantan oil palm plantations.

Oil 273
article thumbnail

IEA: time to tap into hydrogen’s potential to play a key role in a clean, secure and affordable energy future

Green Car Congress

Producing hydrogen from low-carbon energy is costly at the moment, the development of hydrogen infrastructure is slow and holding back widespread adoption, and some regulations currently limit the development of a clean hydrogen industry. That’s the equivalent of the annual carbon emissions of the United Kingdom and Indonesia combined.

Clean 255
article thumbnail

New study finds GHG emissions from palm oil production significantly underestimated; palm oil biofuels could be more climate-damaging than oil sands fuels

Green Car Congress

When peat swamps are drained for agriculture, the peat begins to decompose, and is an enormous source of carbon emissions. Mha (20%) of the peatlands of Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo in 2010, surpassing the area of Belgium and causing an annual carbon emission from peat decomposition of 230–310 Mt CO 2 e.

Oil-Sands 314
article thumbnail

GE and Shenhua open coal gasification joint venture in China

Green Car Congress

The region’s coal industry comprises China, India, Australia, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Thailand, Vietnam and New Zealand. Gasification converts coal into a synthesis gas (or syngas) that can then be used to produce chemicals or other products. China contributed 68% towards the region’s total coal production in 2011.

Coal 199