Green Car Congress
MAY 20, 2013
Batteries accounted for 27% of global lithium consumption in 2012, up from 15% in 2007 and 8% in 2002. This is below the 2007 peak of US$6,500/t, but well above the US$2,000-3,000/t levels seen in the early 2000s. Production is dominated by Talison Lithium in Australia, SQM and Rockwood Lithium in Chile, and FMC in Argentina.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 31, 2011
High oil prices, a global economic rebound, and new laws and mandates in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, and the United States, among other countries, are all factors behind the surge in production, according to research conducted by the Worldwatch Institute’s Climate and Energy Program for the website Vital Signs Online.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 10, 2014
billion liters (951 million gallons), while Argentina took second place with 2.8 Worldwide, biodiesel production grew at an average annual rate of 17% from 2007 through 2012, although the rate of growth slowed considerably. Biofuels investment within the Group of Twenty (G-20) nations has declined every year from 2007 through 2012.
Revenge of the Electric Car
JANUARY 20, 2010
Toyota Tsusho Corp, a trading house and key Toyota supplier that Toyota owns 22 percent of, just announced that it would be jointly developing a new lithium project in Argentina with the Australian-listed Orocobre Ltd. Orocobre went public in December 2007 and now has a current market capitalization of nearly A$150 million.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 4, 2023
Vancouver-based Ultra Lithium announced the brine sampling results from a drill hole at its 100% owned Laguna Verde brine lithium project in Catamarca Province, Argentina. The Laguna Verde project is the flagship project of the company and one of the company’s 100%-owned brine lithium projects in Argentina. Laguna Verde project site 1.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 10, 2010
Meanwhile, the conclusions from the IPCC’s 2007 report remain entirely valid: The climate is changing due to human activity, and the effects are already being felt around the globe. If anything, more recent data indicate that the IPCC’s 2007 assessment underestimated the degree to which human activity is changing our climate.
Green Car Congress
JULY 23, 2010
2008, 54% in 2006 and 65% in 2005); in 2007, the industry growth rate was. US producers had been selling B99 biodiesel into the EU at a considerable discount since early 2007. Biodiesel exports from Argentina are also becoming problematic for the EU producers, EBB said. EU biodiesel production increased 16.6%
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