Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2022

Renault Group and Managem Group , a Moroccan player in the mining and hydrometallurgy sector, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) aimed at securing the supply of low-carbon and responsible cobalt sulfate for electric batteries. billion from 2025 and a target of €3 billion.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2020

Recently the BMW Group signed a cobalt supply contract with Moroccan mining company Managem Group ; the contract has a volume of around €100 million, said Andreas Wendt, member of the Board of Management of BMW AG responsible for Purchasing and Supplier Network. Sustainability and security of supply are important factors for electromobility.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The BMW Group has also signed a long-term supply contract for its fifth-generation electric drive trains with its second battery cell supplier, Samsung SDI. The BMW Group will source the cobalt needed as a key raw material for cell production directly from mines in Australia and Morocco and make it available to CATL and Samsung SDI.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 26, 2024

Following an existing supply agreement with Aston Martin , Lucid Motors’ CEO and CTO Peter Rawlinson hinted that James Bond’s next vehicle could be 100% electric. The components will all be built at AMP-1 and shipped overseas to the UK automaker via supply contracts worth over $450 million. Wouldn’t that be cool? 007 driving an EV?

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2020

Roskill has so far recorded the closure of 21 operations as a result of the outbreak, including: Vale’s Voisey’s Bay and Glencore’s Sudbury in Canada; Ambatovy in Madagascar; Coral Bay and Taganito in the Philippines; CTT in Morocco. Roskill will update its Cobalt: Outlook to 2029 report, published in August 2019, in May.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) can leverage its abundant cobalt resources and hydroelectric power to become a low-cost and low-emissions producer of lithium-ion battery cathode precursor materials, according to a new study on a unified African supply chain by BloombergNEF (BNEF). —James Frith, head of energy storage at BNEF.

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