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Roskill: Indonesia to overtake China as top refined nickel producer this year

Green Car Congress

Materials supply chain intelligence company Roskill expects Indonesia to become the world’s largest producer of refined nickel this year, pushing China to second place. As recently as 2014, Indonesia produced only 24kt of refined nickel. The Lygend plant will be the first HPAL plant in Indonesia.

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Chinese steel group Tsingshan investing $375M to build lithium plant in Argentina with Eramet

Green Car Congress

The two companies have partnered before, with the Weda Bay Nickel project in Indonesia. Since the early phases of the project in 2019, the teams have remained highly committed, preserving the assets and maintaining strong relationships with all stakeholders.

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Benelli has unveiled new electric scooter ‘Dong’

Electric Vehicles India

It has been recently launched in Indonesia. Benelli Dong is a lightweight electric scooter that is small, quirky and funky to look at moreover its design is unique and it is certainly been developed using the know-how from the Chinese side of the operation. It is likely to make its way also to the European and US markets.

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Tesla’s next Gigafactory location unknown, but all signs point toward India

Teslarati

While there have been rumors of deep talks in Spain , numerous meetings with French government officials, and heavy speculation regarding a relationship with Canada, Indonesia, and South Korea, it is becoming overwhelmingly clear that all signs are pointing toward India, a location where Tesla has mulled a factory for several years.

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Electric Car Watch #11: Hyundai's Electric Car Plans for India

Plug In India

The Hyundai Kona launch in 2019 was a pure publicity/PR stunt. Throw in Chinese electric car companies like BYD, MG Motors, Great Wall and others, and Hyundai India has some serious competition. billion electric vehicle battery plant in Indonesia. But we have to understand that Indonesia has a rich natural supply of nickel.

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Honda Speaks About Near Future, EV Plans

The Truth About Cars

Of course, corporations are going to put their best foot forward in these types of media briefs, so you can take things with a grain of salt (or maybe Jimmy Buffett's lost shaker), but here are the highlights: As of the end of the 2023 fiscal year that ended on March 31, Honda has cut fixed costs by more than 10 percent since fiscal year 2019.

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Benelli QJ7000D fully electric motorcycle

Electric Vehicles India

It has been recently launched in Indonesia. Benelli Dong is a lightweight electric scooter that is small, quirky and funky to look at moreover its design is unique and it is certainly been developed using the know-how from the Chinese side of the operation. It is likely to make its way also to the European and US markets.