Green Car Congress
MAY 20, 2013
Lithium extraction, which totalled more than 168,000t LCE in 2012, is undertaken predominately in Australia, Chile, Argentina and China, with roughly half of lithium output from hard rock sources and half from brine. Production is dominated by Talison Lithium in Australia, SQM and Rockwood Lithium in Chile, and FMC in Argentina.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 30, 2019
Shares of major lithium producers and explorers including Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile (NYSE:SQM), Albemarle Corp. SQM hit technical obstacles at its new brine conversion facilities that delayed its target capacity of 70,000 tpa LCE by end of 2018 while Albemarle continues to struggle to achieve full capacity at La Negra II.
Electric Vehicles India
SEPTEMBER 13, 2021
A supply chain that starts with mining and material extraction to then continue with conversion and refining of the materials and producing of battery chemicals, cells and pack. As much as 75 per cent of energy consumption from a battery comes from the cells. The result is a total of GHG emissions from an NCM 111 battery of 73 kg CO2e/kWh.
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