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Top electric vehicles battery manufacturers in India

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Lithium is among one of the costliest materials that are found outside of India, in other countries such as Chile Australia, China, Argentina, etc. In Chile, there are 8,600,000 tons of Lithium reserves. But these reserves are very less when compared with Chile, Australia, Argentina and China.

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Pacific Road To Acquire 10% Stake In UCG Company Carbon Energy Limited from CSIRO

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Pacific Road currently has investments in projects in the Americas (including two projects in Chile), Australia, Pacific and Africa with its primary focus on investment opportunities in resource-rich regions where country risk is manageable. interest in the Company on 30 June 2008. As a result of this transaction CSIRO acquired an 18.6%

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JATO: global vehicle sales fall by 39% in March; electrified vehicles up to 17.4% new registration market share in Europe

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This represents the largest year-on-year monthly decrease since 1980, when JATO Dynamics started to collect data—even surpassing the global financial crisis in November 2008, which saw a 25% decline in sales. The rest of the world posted mixed results. While Japan, Korea and the CIS countries recorded very low decreases.

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Scotia Economics report sees double-digit increase in global vehicle production in first half of 2011; China to surpass European vehicle output this year

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This is more than double its 13% share as recently as 2008, and a sevenfold jump from only a 4% share a decade ago. Sales continue to advance in Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Peru, leading automakers to plan for an additional 13% increase in vehicle production over the coming year.

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Korean consortium forming JV with Bolivian miner Comibol for lithium production in Salar de Uyuni

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Among the other countries, identified lithium resources for Bolivia and Chile total 9 million tons and in excess of 7.5 Korea imports all of its lithium needs, which nearly doubled to 11,000 tons last year compared with 5,200 tons in 2008. million tons, respectively. China and Argentina total 5.4 million tons and 2.6

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GFEI report finds improvements in average new LDV fuel economy lagging pace required to cut 50% fuel use for new cars worldwide by 2030; policy focus should be on emerging markets

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per year between 2005 and 2008. While the pace of improvement has slightly accelerated between 2008 and 2011, it lags behind the required 2.7% USA, Mexico, Chile to a lesser extent) had strong increases in their vehicle sales between 2010 and 2011. mpg US) global average by 2030 for new cars.

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Global Fuel Economy Initiative launches second 3-year campaign; ICCT joins partnership

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The latest GFEI research suggests that fuel economy in new light duty vehicles around the world improved between 2005 and 2008 from around 8.1 The Initiative’s new workplan for 2013-15 lays out the challenges which still remain on fuel economy, and outlines the Initiative’s planned response to those challenges.