Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2023

—Fengqi You, senior author Currently, critical metals and minerals are centralized in politically unstable Chile, Congo, Indonesia, Brazil, Argentina and South Africa, according to the World Bank. It’s mainly driven by the electric vehicle market penetration and battery technology development.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

( earlier post ) has signed a letter of intent (LOI) with ACIA Aero Leasing (ACIA), a regional aircraft lessor with offices in Ireland, France, Canada, Mauritius, and South Africa. Evaluate future green hydrogen demand in the aviation industry on a region-by-region basis to identify and promote green hydrogen adoption and uptake.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2023

Hydrogen pipelines are already used to supply industrial hubs (at petrochemical plants for example). Mt of local supply with startup by 2030 (or only 2.1 Mt from target), with nearby supply amounting to 1 Mt in the rest of Europe—primarily UK and Norway—and another 1 Mt in the Middle East. Additionally, 3.4

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Airbus and South Africa’s National Aerospace Centre will jointly fund research by Hydrogen South Africa (HySA) into the application of fuel cells on airliners. As by-products, hydrogen fuel cells could enable aircraft to generate their own water supplies.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2022

South Africa is the major source, accounting for almost 60% of the world’s rhodium supply; Russia is the second-largest producer. The cost of rhodium has risen dramatically over the past years due to increasing demand coupled with a fundamental supply deficit. Rhodium is the rarest of all non-radioactive metals. 1c03513.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2014

Cathay Pacific has also negotiated a long-term supply agreement with Fulcrum for an initial 375 million gallons US of sustainable aviation fuel over 10 years (representing on an annual basis approximately 2% of the airlines current fuel consumption) that meets all the airlines technical requirements and specifications.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2020

Saft will provide the lithium-ion batteries for this future fleet. Total is one of the world’s biggest suppliers of aviation fuel, in France, in Europe and Africa. Total supplies 280 airlines in 300 airports around the world. Gaussin designs, assembles and sells products and services in the transport and logistics field.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2021

Fincantieri and Enel Green Power Italia have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to define an integrated solution for the production, supply, management and use of green hydrogen for port areas and long-range maritime transport.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2023

With the current raw material production levels there will not be enough of these metals in future—not even if recycling increases, according to the findings of a major survey led by Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, on behalf of the European Commission. The increasing dependence on them is thus problematic for several reasons.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The Action Plan looks at the current and future challenges and proposes actions to reduce Europe’s dependency on third countries, diversifying supply from both primary and secondary sources and improving resource efficiency and circularity while promoting responsible sourcing worldwide. It contains 30 critical raw materials.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2017

ExxonMobil announced the completion of a transaction by ExxonMobil Development Africa B.V. ExxonMobil will lead the construction and operation of all future natural gas liquefaction and related facilities, while Eni will continue to lead the Coral floating LNG project and all upstream operations. interest in Eni East Africa S.p.A. (to

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Developing this project will guarantee the future of industrial employment in Andalusia, generating 10,000 jobs, including direct, indirect, and induced. The ports of Algeciras and Huelva are two key locations on the export and maritime traffic routes both to northern Europe and to Asia and Africa.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Now, in a joint project scheduled initially to run for three years, KIT and Wintershall Dea plan to lay the foundations for future industrial use of methane pyrolysis within the next three years. We are looking forward to this collaboration and are confident that we can make a major contribution to sustainable energy supply in the future.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2022

Non-OPEC+ is set to lead world supply growth through next year, adding 1.9 Nevertheless, product markets are expected to remain tight, with a particular concern for diesel and kerosene supplies. Since 6 June, WTI and Brent futures have averaged above $120/bbl. mb/d of supply in 2022 and 1.8 mb/d in 2022 to 2.2

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2012

Exxon Mobil Corporation plans to invest approximately $185 billion over the next five years to develop new supplies of energy to meet expected growth in demand, Chairman and CEO Rex W. At the meeting the company outlined its major achievements in 2011 and plans for the future. billion oil equivalent barrels.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2019

For the new collaborative business, Toyota will supply THS (Toyota Hybrid System) to Suzuki. Toyota will also supply two new electrified vehicles built on Toyota platforms (RAV4, Corolla Wagon) to Suzuki in Europe. Suzuki will supply two compact vehicles built on Suzuki platforms (Ciaz and Ertiga) to Toyota in India.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2020

It estimates that more than 3 billion tons of minerals and metals will be needed to deploy wind, solar and geothermal power, as well as energy storage, to achieve greenhouse gas emission reductions sufficient to achieve a below 2°C future. Source: “Minerals for Climate Action: The Mineral Intensity of the Clean Energy Transition”.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2014

The researchers also expect about 1 billion more people to be living in areas where water demand exceeds surface-water supply. A large portion of these regions already face water stress—most notably India, Northern Africa and the Middle East. billion people in 2050 will live in water-stressed areas. Schlosser, C.A., Strzepek, X.

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MARCH 8, 2021

are launching a new rare earth production initiative spanning European and North American critical material supply chains. Energy Fuels is also continuing to evaluate developing additional value-added US rare earth production capabilities in Utah in the future. Neo Performance Materials and Energy Fuels Inc.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2020

The report finds that Germany, which is pursuing rapid development in hydrogen, could procure cost-competitive hydrogen (at about $1/kg) in 2050 from a variety of sources, including via electrolysis from its own domestic renewable power, or via pipeline imports from North Africa or Southern Europe.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2019

Global energy investment stabilized in 2018, ending three consecutive years of decline, as capital spending on oil, gas and coal supply bounced back while investment stalled for energy efficiency and renewables, according to the International Energy Agency’s latest annual review. Whichever way you look, we are storing up risks for the future.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

If finalized, this represents the first DFC loan to a graphite operation, demonstrating importance of Balama to bolstering US supply chain security for supply of critical minerals.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

At this year’s Africa Aerospace & Defence (AAD) expo at AFB Waterkloof in Centurion, Rheinmetall AG is presenting turnkey, mobile modular solutions for producing, storing and transporting CO 2 -free hydrogen. Suitable for use in undeveloped terrain, it does not require an external power supply.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 15, 2024

Copper prices also hit record high on Shanghai Futures Exchange (Shfe) and neared a two-year high of USD 4.34 Even so, if mined copper supply constraints held steady for the medium term, Cantallopts said, copper prices could reach USD 5.00 per pound last Friday on Chicago Mercantile Exchange. When prices hit USD 4.50

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2018

The strategic investment and partnership will enable both Hyundai Motor and Revv to build competency and the technology necessary for leading the future mobility market in India—an evolving market showing exponential growth, expanding from USD 900 million in 2016 to USD 1.5 It is the number-one car exporter since inception in India.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2014

Dyadic anticipates supplying enzymes to CIMV’s planned 2015 demonstration plant, as well as licensing its C1 technology for on-site production of enzymes at CIMV’s future commercial scale plants.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2018

China’s Huayou Cobalt is the largest cobalt producer in China and is capable of supplying 50% of demand from lithium-ion battery producers. The company has been active in cobalt and copper resources exploration and development in Africa since 2006. The company also owns a nickel mine.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 14, 2022

Last year the IEEE Future Networks initiative ran the inaugural IEEE Connecting the Unconnected Challenge to seek out innovative projects and ideas aimed at increasing connectivity. Based on the strong response last year, IEEE Future Networks plans to make the challenge an annual program.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

The partners say that discovery of large volumes of CBM in Botswana could be used to generate power and liquid fuels in southern Africa. CBM exploration is still in the early stages of development in southern Africa.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2016

It could also move prefabricated houses or building modules across undeveloped terrain or transport large aircraft components from one supply chain location to the next. The airship’s hybrid electric power propulsion delivers a minimal environmental footprint at a fraction of the cost of current solutions, if such solutions even exist.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2018

There is now a significant wave of interest in battery raw material supply security, mainly from Asia, to underpin the growth of Li-ion battery production over the next decade. million aimed at sourcing long-term supplies of battery-grade cobalt from the Thackaringa cobalt project in New South Wales, Australia.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

With an increasing supply of electricity from fluctuating renewable energies, such as wind farms or solar power stations, they can help stabilize power grids, levelling out energy fluctuations with virtually no loss—a role that is partly fulfilled by fossil power plants at present. It also markets electricity.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 13, 2022

Every month I look forward to reading Jose Pontes’ China sales updates and keenly follow the evolution of the Chinese EV market as it is probably the best bet for supplying affordable mass market EVs for the global market in the near future. I also look forward to Dr. Maximilian Holland’s sales updates for the […].

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2014

Houston-based Biofuels Power Corporation ( BFLS ) has signed a letter of intent with ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions (Africa) (Pty) Ltd and Liberty GTL, Inc. Liberty will provide intellectual property and operating know-how regarding crude oil synthesis along with the relevant catalyst supply.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2012

Under this agreement, Versalis will use Genomatica’s process technology for economically competitive and sustainable production of an important supply-constrained chemical. The process technology aspect of the agreement is intended to be made available for future licensing in Europe, Africa and Asia.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2011

TCX is the company’s new proprietary technology for ethanol production that builds on its acetyl platform and integrates new technologies to produce ethanol using basic hydrocarbon feedstocks—natural gas, coal and pet coke now, with biomass and waste planned for the future. Earlier post.). Source: Celanese. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2018

The tight supply/demand situation for graphite electrodes is expected to persist for much longer than many market observers expect. The growing demand for spherical graphite has injected life into natural graphite supply chain development in the rest-of-world (ROW). ROW still far from developing a spherical graphite supply chain.

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