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Rio Tinto achieves battery-grade lithium production at Boron plant

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Mining at Boron began in 1927 and today, the mine—home to one of the richest deposits of borates in the world—produces one million tonnes of refined borates every year, or approximately 30% of global demand. The demonstration plant has a design capacity of 10 tonnes per year of battery-grade lithium.

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ZF’s first zero-emission factory is model plant for global production network | Autocar Professional

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The plant, which is part of the Electrified Powertrain Technology division, supports the company’s efforts to achieve climate neutrality across all value chains by 2040. It will be used as the blueprint for all ZF plants worldwide. Customers include international car manufacturers.

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Rio Tinto to invest ~$200M to progress the Jadar lithium project to feasibility study stage; jaderite

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Rio Tinto has approved an additional investment of almost $200 million to progress the next stage of the development of the lithium-borate Jadar project in Serbia. The unique mineral— jadarite —was discovered by Rio Tinto geologists in 2004 near the city of Loznica in Western Serbia.

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T&E: two-thirds of European battery production at risk as companies weigh investing in US instead

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Battery production capacity equivalent to 18 million electric cars—1.2 Europe must act or risk losing it all. The report also places question marks over projects in Serbia and Spain by InoBat, which recently secured incentives for a joint venture with an American company in Indiana.

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Plug In America joins global alliance

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Last week, 37 electric vehicle (EV) driver associations from 26 countries, including Plug In America, joined forces to create the Global EV Drivers’ Alliance, building a worldwide EV community. While the United States has been a leader in electric mobility in many ways, we also lag behind several countries in EV market share.

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ZF has produced 2M electric motors; mild-hybrid to full-electric drives

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ZF has reached the milestone of two million electric motors produced. The technology company supplies automotive manufacturers with electric motors for different vehicle types—from hybrid and electric axle drives for electric passenger cars to electric central drives for commercial vehicles.

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How Fiat joined Toyota, Hyundai in key metric

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. “Within Stellantis, the Fiat brand now has the scale and the platforms to be competitive globally,” he stated. All 3 are constructed at Stellantis’ manufacturing facility in Kenitra, Morocco. Francois stated that within the later two years Fiat will foundation two brandnew globally centered fashions.

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