Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2020

Eurasian Resources Group (ERG), a leading diversified natural resources group, is assessing the construction of a battery material plant to produce nickel-cobalt-manganese (NCM) precursor materials for batteries for electric vehicles (EVs). —Benedikt Sobotka, CEO of Eurasian Resources Group.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 27, 2022

Just as the Middle East has been a strategic center in global oil politics, the Democratic Republic of Congo has become the epicenter for the raw materials needed for electric vehicles—especially cobalt.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2023

Although there is no scarcity of reserves for these energy transition minerals, global capabilities for mining and refining them are limited. External shocks, resource nationalism, export restrictions, mineral cartels, instability, and market manipulation could therefore increase the risks of supply shortages.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Volkswagen says that it is actively engaging in improving artisanal cobalt mining conditions in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as well as the living conditions for people in the surrounding communities. The system developed by RCS Global tracks raw materials back to sub-suppliers, refineries, smelters, mines and recyclers.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) can leverage its abundant cobalt resources and hydroelectric power to become a low-cost and low-emissions producer of lithium-ion battery cathode precursor materials, according to a new study on a unified African supply chain by BloombergNEF (BNEF).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2020

The cross-industry initiative “Cobalt for Development” has started trainings for twelve artisanal mining cooperatives in October in Kolwezi, Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo). —WEF, “Making Mining Safe and Fair: Artisanal cobalt extraction in the Democratic Republic of the Congo”.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2021

for the supply of spodumene concentrate (SC6) from the Manono Lithium and Tin Project in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The Manono Project is owned by AVZ (60%), La Congolaise d’Exploitation Minière SA (30%) (Cominiere, a State-owned enterprise) and Dathomir Mining Resources SARL (10%) (Dathomir, a privately owned company).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2021

Ford is working with its international nonprofit and grantmaking partners to support and promote a pilot program that will empower women working in the copper and cobalt supply chains in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The Democratic Republic of Congo, a leader producer of cobalt, exported approximately 70% of global demand in 2020.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

As part of a cross-industry initiative, the BMW Group, BASF SE, Samsung SDI and Samsung Electronics have launched a joint cobalt pilot project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The world’s largest known reserves of this raw material are found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2023

Jervois Global Limited will suspend final construction and full concentrator commissioning at its 100%-owned Idaho Cobalt Operations mine (ICO) in Idaho ( earlier post ) due to continuing low cobalt prices and US inflationary impacts on construction costs.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

FREYR Battery, a developer of clean, next-generation battery cell production capacity, has become a member of the Fair Cobalt Alliance (FCA) to underscore FREYR’s commitment to developing a sustainable global battery industry. The FCA focuses on economic diversification, improving worker conditions at mine sites and supporting child rights.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Roughly 60% of mined cobalt is sourced from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Demand for these vehicles and their batteries is growing swiftly: In 2018, the global electric car fleet numbered in excess of 5.1 The paper is published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. Xinkai Fu, Danielle N. Beatty, Gabrielle G.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2020

UC Berkeley School of Law’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment (CLEE) and the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) are conducting a stakeholder-led research initiative focused on identifying strategies to improve sustainability and governance across the EV battery supply chain.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2021

Major metals and mining companies CMOC, Eurasian Resources Group (ERG) and Glencore, in collaboration with battery material supplier Umicore, are piloting Re|Source , a solution to trace responsibly produced cobalt from the mine to the electric car. A global EV pioneer and one of the world’s leading battery makers are also part of the pilot.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2020

In 2019, the US produced an estimated 500 metric tons of Co from a nickel-copper mine in Michigan and mine tailings in Missouri (less than 1% of global mine production), plus an additional 2,700 metric tons in secondary production (recycled materials, post-industrial, and post-consumer materials). There are 6.8

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2018

In general, high scorers exhibit long-standing commitments to protecting public health, preserving natural resources, and decoupling greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from economic activity. India and Bangladesh come in near the bottom of the rankings, with Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Nepal rounding out the bottom five.

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Drive Electric

AUGUST 9, 2022

While 80% of EV drivers globally charge their EV at home which can be done from inside your garage or carport with appropriate safety in place, there is still a need for public charging infrastructure. In 2021, Global EV purchases jumped to 6.6 So, how much lithium is available globally, and will this become an issue?

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Reeling from a crushing shortage of semiconductor chips for vehicles, carmakers also face another looming crisis: producing enough batteries to drive the global pivot towards electric vehicles. The Democratic Republic of Congo produces 70 percent of the world's cobalt, and most of the world's nickel sits under Indonesian rainforests.

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Drive Electric

AUGUST 9, 2022

While 80% of EV drivers globally charge their EV at home which can be done from inside your garage or carport with appropriate safety in place, there is still a need for public charging infrastructure. In 2021, Global EV purchases jumped to 6.6 So, how much lithium is available globally, and will this become an issue?

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 10, 2024

Chemaf Resources Ltd. said last week it would halt mining operations at its Grants open pit mine until conditions improve, warning of a writedown, while nickel miner Panoramic Resources Ltd. Australia’s Core Lithium Ltd.

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 16, 2022

According to a recent report from S&P Global Commodity Insights , the price of cobalt is up around 85%, and nickel about 55%, over the past year, but lithium has really gone through the roof—prices for the light white stuff have surged over 700% since the beginning of 2021. What’s the scarcest of them all? Greening the supply chain.

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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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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2020

This would necessitate a more than tripling of global battery recycling capacity, from approximately 1000 kt/year (1 million tons) in 2020 to 3500 kt/year (3.5 Security of supply: Battery recycling has the potential to create battery material supply in regions that do not have natural resources. million tons) by 2030.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2022

For EVs, much of the environmental burden centers on the production of batteries, the most energy- and resource-intensive component of the vehicle. In 2019, 63 percent of global electricity was produced from fossil-fuel sources, the exact nature of which varies substantially among regions. Number of EVs on the road in China in 2021.

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Get Electric Vehicle

JUNE 6, 2023

  In this article, we will explore the depths of the EV supply chain, from global suppliers to raw materials, manufacturing complexities to logistics and distribution, and the exciting world of supply chain risk management. Here are some major global suppliers in the EV industry. Electric Vehicle Supply Chain #1.

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