Green Car Congress

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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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. Argentina has also mandated that biodiesel makes up 5 percent of fuel by 2010. The plant is expected to be operational from the end of 2011 onwards.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Sinopec Group, ranked the 5th in the Fortune Global 500 in 2011, is China’s largest producer of refined oil products and major petrochemical products and its second largest crude oil producer. In 2010, Sinopec’s domestic crude output amounted to 298 MMbbl and natural gas production grew to 441 Bcf.

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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. For more information read: Toyota in Argentine Lithium Deal for Hybrid Car Push. By Eriko Amaha for Reuters. By Eriko Amaha.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2010

These products are currently primarily sold in the US, Canada, Argentina, and Brazil. The acquisition is subject to customary regulatory approvals and is expected to be completed between February and May 2011. EMD/Merck Crop BioScience is a leading developer of natural inoculants used by farmers to improve plant health and crop yields.

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Green Car Congress

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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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2011

According to a January 2011 update by the US Geological Survey (USGS), identified lithium resources total 4 million tons in the United States and approximately 29 million tons in other countries. China and Argentina total 5.4 The global lithium market has been expanding by 6% annually since 2000, according to KORES.

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JANUARY 20, 2012

global sales rose to more than 9 million vehicles in 2011, a 7.6% of the global vehicle industry. On a corporate basis, GM’s two largest markets in 2011 were China, where GM and its joint venture partners increased sales 8.3% General Motors Global Sales Summary. Total Global. General Motors Co. Uzbekistan.

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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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JUNE 12, 2015

Globally, their significance is harder to assess. If all 191 billion barrels were technically recoverable, they would represent over half of the 345 billion barrels of global recoverable shale oil resources , more than the top four countries, Russia, the U.S., China, and Argentina, combined.

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