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SolarEdge, Kokam open 2GWh cell plant in South Korea

Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2022

Located in the Eumseong Innovation City of Chungcheongbuk-Do, South Korea, Sella 2 is currently producing test cells for certification, with ramp-up expected during the second half of 2022. SolarEdge was established in 2006; it acquired Kokam, a provider of Lithium-ion battery cells, batteries and energy storage solutions, in 2018.

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SK On signs MOU with Global Lithium Resources to bolster key battery materials supply chain

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

South Korea-based SK On (SKO), a global EV battery manufacturer, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Australia’s Global Lithium Resources to explore future business opportunities together in regard to stable supply of lithium. Incorporated in 2018, Global Lithium was listed on the Australian Stock Exchange last year.

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Why New Production Sources of Tungsten Are Critical for Increased Global Supply

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MARCH 4, 2021

in the April report for the Institute for Supply Management’s Manufacturing Index. This primarily includes dealing with a strained supply chain on critical raw materials, like tungsten, to produce all of those EV-powered automobiles, cranes, trucks and more. New Tungsten Production Will Open the Global Supply Chain.

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POSCO to invest $830M in lithium hydroxide plant in Argentina

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2022

South Korea-based steelmaker POSCO will invest US$830 million in a lithium hydroxide plant in Argentina. POSCO bought lithium mining rights in Argentina from Australian lithium miner Galaxy Resources for $280 million in 2018. The plant will be constructed by the first half of 2024. Initially, POSCO estimated that the site had 2.2

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Volvo Cars inaugurates new battery assembly line at Ghent manufacturing plant

Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2020

Last year, Volvo Cars signed long-term supply agreements with two leading global battery suppliers, CATL of China and LG Chem of South Korea. The agreements cover the supply of batteries over the coming decade for next generation Volvo and Polestar models, including the XC40 Recharge P8.

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Benchmark Minerals: Europe’s EV gigafactory capacity pipeline to grow 6-fold to 789.2 GWh to 2030

Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2022

Just three and a half years ago, Benchmark’s lithium-ion Battery Gigafactory Assessment (September 2018) reported Europe’s battery cell capacity to be at 120GWh by 2030—enough cells for 2.2 Benchmark cautions that capacity does not necessarily equal reliable supply for the EV industry. million EVs.

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BNEF: energy storage is a $1.2-trillion investment opportunity to 2040

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

BNEF’s latest Long-Term Energy Storage Outlook sees the capital cost of a utility-scale lithium-ion battery storage system sliding another 52% between 2018 and 2030, on top of the steep declines seen earlier this decade. China, the US, India, Japan, Germany, France, Australia, South Korea and the UK will be the leading countries.

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ICCT report finds US domestic EV production and investment continues to fall; only 5% of global EV investment to go to US EV assembly plants

Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2021

million in 2020, followed by 450,000 in the US and about 110,000 each in Japan and South Korea. The US market has remained steadily behind with fewer than 360,000 EV sales annually from 2018 through 2020, whereas Europe saw explosive growth from 390,000 to more than 1.3 In terms of annual EV production, Europe’s 1.1

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Loop Energy to supply eFlow hydrogen fuel cell systems for transit buses in South Korea

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2021

The announcement marks accelerating adoption of the eFlow fuel cell platform within the transit bus market vertical as well as Loop Energy’s official entry into the zero-emission commercial vehicle market in South Korea. Our major shareholders include some of Korea’s largest bus fleet operators. billion KRW (approximately US$2.0

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The Godfather of South Korea’s Chip Industry

Cars That Think

AUGUST 27, 2022

But it was true what semiconductor engineers in South Korea whispered about his former students: They were everywhere. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) assumed top posts in the industry as well as coveted positions teaching or researching semiconductors at universities and government institutes.

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IHS Markit: US poised to be world’s largest LNG exporter in 2022 as China becomes top LNG importer

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2022

The United States was the largest source of LNG supply growth in 2021, adding 25 million metric tons (MMt) amid continued buildup of liquefaction capacity as well as the ramping up of output from plants turned down the previous year. Total loaded LNG supply in 2021 reached 396.3 MMt), followed by South Korea at 46.4

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Wärtsilä VOC recovery system for LNG systems can save tons of fuel each year for two new shuttle tankers

Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2018

The technology group Wärtsilä will supply its Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) recovery technology, LNG fuel gas handling systems and the auxiliary engines for two new shuttle tankers being built for Singapore-based AET Tankers at the Samsung Heavy Industries shipyard in South Korea.

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BNEF ups forecast for global investment in stationary energy storage, sees majority of capacity likely to be grid-scale

Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2019

Energy storage installations around the world will multiply exponentially, from a modest 9GW/17GWh deployed as of 2018 to 1,095GW/2,850GWh by 2040, according to the latest forecast from research company BloombergNEF (BNEF). South Korea is the lead market in 2019, but will soon cede that position, with China and the US far in front by 2040.

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Hyundai Motor Group and Seoul National University open joint battery research center; focus on Li-metal and solid-state

Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2023

Above all, the Group expects to pave the way for South Korea to become one of the world’s leading battery technology houses by fostering outstanding talent in the battery sector. In comparison to 2018 prices, the cost of batteries will be lowered by 75% in 2026, and 45% in 2030 to enhance the affordability and practicality of EVs.

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SGH2 building largest green hydrogen production facility in California; gasification of waste into H2

Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2020

The City of Lancaster will supply guaranteed feedstock of recyclables, and will save between $50 to $75 per ton in landfilling and landfill space costs. The market for all recyclables, from mixed plastics to cardboard and paper, collapsed in 2018, when China banned the import of recycled waste materials.

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Hyundai Mobis unveils e-corner module turns wheels to 90º

Electric Vehicles India

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The concept of the e-Corner Module all-in-one wheel was first introduced at CES 2018 in Las Vegas. Recently, the CATL announced that it is licensing its Cell-to-Pack technology to South Korean supplier Hyundai Mobis. They will work together to develop higher-quality products for the global electric vehicle market, it says.

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The Top 10 EV Battery Makers

Cars That Think

AUGUST 25, 2021

Ryan Castilloux, managing director of Adamas Intelligence, says COVID-19 barely dented mushrooming growth: "Through five months of 2021, the total auto battery capacity deployed on the world's roads is greater than all of 2018.". CATL), now the world's largest battery company, supplies LFP packs for Tesla's Model 3 Standard Range.

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CCM: Shanghai Energy investing US$790M to construct world’s largest Li-ion wet process separator production base

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APRIL 20, 2018

In the past, the global lithium battery separator market was mainly shared by manufacturers in Japan, America, South Korea, and China. On 19 March 2018, Shanghai Energy held a signing ceremony for its new materials project in Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province. Its production capacity and growth rate both remain relatively small.

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IHS Markit: global commercial vehicle production to drop 22% in 2020 in wake of COVID-19

Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2020

Individual regional forecasts are set to a downtrend, and supply chain impacts are being felt, as the consequences of the virus have shuttered manufacturing and supplier facilities around the world. million units, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. decline in global real GDP in 2020.

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Climate impact of lithium-ion batteries & how to measure it

Electric Vehicles India

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

A supply chain that starts with mining and material extraction to then continue with conversion and refining of the materials and producing of battery chemicals, cells and pack. Climate impact of the battery supply chain. The most important matter here is the heat is supplied from electricity or fuel have a significant impact.

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Australia Goes All-in on Green Hydrogen

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 25, 2022

And while coal plants still supplied over half of Australia’s power in 2021, change is afoot. The other glimmer of reality is a project in Gladstone to build one of the world’s largest electrolyzer-manufacturing plants, which promises to provide a local source of equipment amid ongoing chaos in global supply chains.

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Navigant Research forecasts new EV global sales of > 346,000 units in 2014; 10 predictions for the year

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JANUARY 8, 2014

Navigant’s analysis indicates that only buyers in California and Oregon will purchase sufficient numbers of vehicles in order to meet the ZEV requirement in 2018 and 2019. Germany, the United Kingdom, several Nordic countries, Japan, and South Korea are continuing to pursue their hydrogen infrastructure roadmaps.

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SAE World Congress panel highlights progress on H2 infrastructure and fuel cell vehicle commercialization

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MAY 12, 2015

The substantial early activity in fuel cell vehicles has led up to the broad goal of providing FCEVs to the general public in a mass scale starting from 2018; Hyundai is looking to have approximately 10,000 units in place (cumulative) in Korea alone (and more elsewhere) around 2025. Concentration of force—i.e.,

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Naysayer Alert – the hydrogen red herring

My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

Hence its supply would not be cheap, renewable nor sustainable in the long term. The mandating of any system such as this would only be about looking after the interests of ‘middlemen’: oil and gas invested companies who would invariably transition into this market as both supply and/or demand for oil recede. .

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Hyundai Motor enters MoU with H2 Energy for 1,000 heavy-duty fuel-cell trucks and renewable hydrogen

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Beginning in 2019 and over a five-year period, Hyundai Motor and H2 Energy will provide 1,000 heavy-duty fuel cell electric trucks ( earlier post ) and an adequate supply chain for renewable hydrogen. Hyundai Motor Company has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Swiss hydrogen company H2 Energy (H2E).

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Hyundai Hydrogen Renewable Motor

7 Revealing Ways AIs Fail

Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

A 2018 study found that state-of-the-art AIs that would normally correctly identify the school bus right-side-up failed to do so on average 97 percent of the time when it was rotated. 1) Brittleness. Chris Philpot. Take a picture of a school bus. In the beginning, the researchers trained their neural network to spot one kind of deepfake.

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Rejoice: The Tipping Point Has Been Reached!

Get Electric Vehicle

AUGUST 4, 2022

The rest of society will follow once the obstacles are resolved for the early adopters (in this example, range, cost, charging infrastructure, limited supply, and choice). Things like a retooling of factories and reorganization of supply chains are necessary when switching to EV manufacturing.

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2020 Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution

EV Sales

MARCH 22, 2021

The only exception to this geographical intra-Europe rule was Ukraine, entering the Top 10 in 2016-2018 on the power of grassroots-driven lively market of second-hand EV imports, which seems to have stalled in 2019-2020. In October, our relatives in Israel bought this amazing Hyundai Ioniq BEV, designed and built in Korea.

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EV Driven

SolarEdge, Kokam open 2GWh cell plant in South Korea

SK On signs MOU with Global Lithium Resources to bolster key battery materials supply chain

Why New Production Sources of Tungsten Are Critical for Increased Global Supply

POSCO to invest $830M in lithium hydroxide plant in Argentina

Volvo Cars inaugurates new battery assembly line at Ghent manufacturing plant

Benchmark Minerals: Europe’s EV gigafactory capacity pipeline to grow 6-fold to 789.2 GWh to 2030

BNEF: energy storage is a $1.2-trillion investment opportunity to 2040

ICCT report finds US domestic EV production and investment continues to fall; only 5% of global EV investment to go to US EV assembly plants

Loop Energy to supply eFlow hydrogen fuel cell systems for transit buses in South Korea

The Godfather of South Korea’s Chip Industry

IHS Markit: US poised to be world’s largest LNG exporter in 2022 as China becomes top LNG importer

Wärtsilä VOC recovery system for LNG systems can save tons of fuel each year for two new shuttle tankers

BNEF ups forecast for global investment in stationary energy storage, sees majority of capacity likely to be grid-scale

Hyundai Motor Group and Seoul National University open joint battery research center; focus on Li-metal and solid-state

SGH2 building largest green hydrogen production facility in California; gasification of waste into H2

Hyundai Mobis unveils e-corner module turns wheels to 90º

The Top 10 EV Battery Makers

CCM: Shanghai Energy investing US$790M to construct world’s largest Li-ion wet process separator production base

IHS Markit: global commercial vehicle production to drop 22% in 2020 in wake of COVID-19

Climate impact of lithium-ion batteries & how to measure it

Australia Goes All-in on Green Hydrogen

Navigant Research forecasts new EV global sales of > 346,000 units in 2014; 10 predictions for the year

SAE World Congress panel highlights progress on H2 infrastructure and fuel cell vehicle commercialization

Naysayer Alert – the hydrogen red herring

Hyundai Motor enters MoU with H2 Energy for 1,000 heavy-duty fuel-cell trucks and renewable hydrogen

7 Revealing Ways AIs Fail

Rejoice: The Tipping Point Has Been Reached!

2020 Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution

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