Baua Electric

MARCH 25, 2024

These legal ambiguities are the latest impediment – alongside technical challenges and sagging commodity prices – to America’s plans to produce more of its own lithium and wean the country off foreign supplies, according to interviews with regulators from seven U.S.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2018

It collects insights held at a workshop organized by the International Transport Forum in June 2018 in Paris and features the results of a survey among experts. Policy needs to evolve in order to create a favorable environment for the deployment of these solutions. Access to private data for public entities is thus important.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Respect and protection of human rights and of the environment, all the way from the mine to the finished product, are decisive in this respect, the company said. Based on the insights gained, we will instruct our battery suppliers to only source cobalt and lithium from certified mining sites in the future.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

If proven effective, these measures could then be scaled up to other legal artisanal mine sites and enhance systemic challenges in the longer run. Currently, companies are facing challenges in the areas of environment, health and safety, and human rights when cobalt is extracted through artisanal mining.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Covered in greater detail in an earlier post , the battery-electric e-tron quattro concept provides a very close foreshadowing of the production model to follow in 2018. The actual bursting pressure is much higher still and far exceeds the legal requirements. Audi e-tron quattro concept SUV.

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