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Batteries accounted for 27% of global lithium consumption in 2012, up from 15% in 2007 and 8% in 2002. In 2012, East Asia accounted for 60% of total global consumption with Europe accounting for a further 24% and North America 9%. Roskill is an international metals and minerals market research firm.

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MAY 17, 2010

The combined global land and ocean surface temperature was the warmest on record for both April and for the period from January-April, according to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Global temperature anomalies in April 2010 with respect to a 1971-2000 base period. Source: NOAA. Click to enlarge.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2011

Rising global vehicle sales and profitability have encouraged automakers to continue to increase vehicle production, providing the global economy with some positive offset to the dampening impact of the recent surge in energy prices, according to the latest Global Auto Report released on Friday by Canada-based Scotia Economics.

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APRIL 20, 2018

—Daniele Schillaci, Nissan’s executive vice president for global marketing and sales, zero-emission vehicles and the battery business and chairman of the Management Committee for Japan/Asia & Oceania. The company expects to sell 1 million electrified vehicles (e-POWER and EVs) globally per year by the end of the plan.

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APRIL 6, 2011

In addition to the United States, this group includes Canada, Mexico, China, Australia, Libya, Algeria, Argentina, and Brazil. The US is second, with 862 Tcf, followed by Argentina with 774 Tcf and Mexico with 681 Tcf. In 2010, US shale gas production reached 4.87 Background. Tcf in 2000.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2010

BASF expects about 15% of the annual global demand for biodiesel, which is about 30 million tons, to come from South America in 2015. Legislation in Brazil requires fuel to contain 5 percent biodiesel from 2010 onwards. Argentina has also mandated that biodiesel makes up 5 percent of fuel by 2010.

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OCTOBER 1, 2009

Despite a number of key issues such as land use and competition for feedstocks supplies for traditional food and feed uses, global use of biofuels is excepted to more than double from 2009 to 2015, according to a new global analysis released by Hart Energy Publishing’s Global Biofuels Center (GBC). billion gallons).

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

The majority of known lithium reserves are located in China, Chile, Argentina and Australia. Together these regions were also responsible for more than 90% of all lithium production in 2010, not including US production. This action by China highlights the risks of global dependence. —Ona Egbue. —Ona Egbue.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Galp Energia’s Brazilian portfolio included, at the end of 2010, 3P reserves (proven plus probable plus possible) of 554 million boe, 3C contingent resources of 2,135 million boe and risked prospective resources (mean estimate) of 188 million boe, as certified by DeGolyer and MacNaughton. billion bbl and 4.41 Tcf, respectively.

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APRIL 7, 2015

Entering the rapidly growing segment of midsize pickups is an important step in continuing our global growth path. The Mercedes-Benz 1-ton pickup truck will be built by Nissan in the Renault plant in Cordoba, Argentina, along with the Nissan NP300 and the Renault 1-ton truck, for Latin America.

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OCTOBER 3, 2016

Production of the Mercedes-Benz pickup truck will take place at the Renault plant in Cordoba, Argentina, and at Nissan’s Barcelona plant in Spain, where the Nissan NP300 Frontier and the Renault Alaskan will also be produced. The Nissan Decherd plant has become an important pillar of Daimler’s flexible, global production network (i.e.

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JANUARY 20, 2010

Orocobre Limited , an Australian minerals exploration company with a focus on developing “best of class” Lithium, Potash and Boron resources in Argentina, and a Toyota Group Company, Toyota Tsusho Corporation, will establish a joint venture to develop Orocobre’s flagship Salar de Olaroz Lithium-Potash Project in Argentina.

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DECEMBER 14, 2009

These will complement ExxonMobil’s holdings in the United States, Canada, Germany, Poland, Hungary and Argentina. Completion of the transaction is expected in the second quarter of 2010. XTO’s resource base is the equivalent of 45 trillion cubic feet of gas and includes shale gas, tight gas, coal bed methane and shale oil.

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DECEMBER 21, 2009

The first locomotives and kits are scheduled to be delivered in early 2011; locomotive assembly in country, with kits from Erie and engines from Grove City, should begin at the end of 2010. It feeds the port of Saldanha Bay, for export to a global market.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2009

The projections assume that the most significant increases in foreign biofuel production over the next decade will be in the European Union (EU), Brazil, Argentina, and Canada. percent of total transportation fuel use by 2010 and mandate of 10% by 2020 are only partially met. The projections assume that the EU biofuel target of 5.75

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JUNE 10, 2011

MIT and the IEA both have newly released reports exploring the potential for and impact of a major expansion in global usage of natural gas, given the current re-evaluation of global supplies. Globally, natural gas vehicles are a small fraction, on the order of 1%, of the close to 900 million vehicles in the vehicle parc.

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JULY 2, 2013

Second, recent global efficiency standards for passenger vehicles, international freight, and domestic freight present significant changes from decades of stagnation in efficiency. 2010, to above 140 $/bbl in constant 2010 dollars). Recent trends suggest that a demand-driven peak is increasingly plausible. —Brandt et al.

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JANUARY 20, 2012

global sales rose to more than 9 million vehicles in 2011, a 7.6% gain compared with 2010. of the global vehicle industry. Sales were up in all four reporting regions—North America, South America, Europe and International Operations—as GM sold a total of 9,025,942 vehicles compared with 8,385,484 in 2010.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Dashed red line shows 2010 consumption of 87 MMbbl/d. World markets for petroleum and other liquid fuels have entered a period of dynamic change in both supply and demand, the EIA noted, leading to its reassessment of its outlook for long-term global liquid fuels markets in IEO2014. Source: EIA. Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 13, 2009

Global use of biofuels will more than double between 2009 and 2015 – that is the verdict of Hart Energy Publishing’s Global Biofuels Centre (see article ). It predicts 35 per cent growth in the US; 30 per cent growth in Brazil; and substantial increases in areas including the Asia-Pacific region, France, Germany and Argentina.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2012

PwC analysis finds a need for global carbon intensity to drop an average of 5.1% Since 2000, the global rate of decarbonization has averaged 0.8%; from 2010 to 2011, global carbon intensity fell by just 0.7%. Because of this slow start, global carbon intensity now needs to be cut by an average of 5.1%

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FEBRUARY 17, 2015

New data and an accompanying report from the World Bank shows that almost 200 million people moved to urban areas in East Asia from 2000-2010—a figure that would be the world’s sixth-largest population for any single country. Urban extent in China’s Pearl River Delta, 2010 (gray) and urban extension by 2010 (red).

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JUNE 12, 2015

Petroleum geologists have known about the Canol (short for Canadian oil) shale play at least since 2010, when ConocoPhillips bid $66 million to secure the rights to explore an 87,000-hectare parcel known as EL470. The project was approved by the NEB in 2010. Globally, their significance is harder to assess. But with U.S.

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