article thumbnail

Syrah Resources signs binding offtake agreement with Tesla for natural graphite active anode material

Green Car Congress

Tesla will offtake the majority of the proposed initial expansion of AAM production capacity at Vidalia at a fixed price for an initial term of four years commencing from the achievement of a commercial production rate, subject to final qualification. Balama mine operation in Mozambique. Vidalia battery anode material project site.

article thumbnail

ExxonMobil adds 2.7B barrels oil equivalent to reserves; replaces 183% of 2017 production

Green Car Congress

Other significant new proved reserve additions were made in Guyana, where the company funded the first phase of development last year, and in Mozambique, associated with the project funding of the Coral FLNG project in the gas-rich deepwater Area 4. billion gross oil-equivalent barrels prior to the 2018 Ranger discovery.

2017 186
article thumbnail

A closer look at graphite—its forms, functions and future in EV batteries

Charged EVs

Because most of the vehicle cost is in the battery, as we all know, so it depends if it’s a high-end vehicle versus a more moderately priced vehicle—that will affect battery chemistry and other components as well. They’re looking at every parameter and trying to optimize the performance that they’re after, and quite frankly, the cost.

Future 112
article thumbnail

Roskill: Spread of COVID-19 threatens cobalt supply; bottlenecks out of DRC

Green Car Congress

However, owing to the widespread closures in South Africa, most shipments are now having to be diverted to other neighboring ports such as Maputo in Mozambique or Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. Cobalt mined in these areas, and in other parts of the DRC, is shipped mostly to China typically via the port of Durban.

Supplies 307