Innovation News Network

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Golden Arrow Resources details the latest developments from its various mineral exploration projects in Chile and Argentina. The post Advancing mineral exploration in South America appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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OCTOBER 25, 2012

Akerson was joined by Argentina President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner; GM South America President Jaime Ardila; and GM Argentina President Isela Costantini. GM Argentina produced a record of more than 136,000 vehicles at its Rosario facility in 2011. —Isela Costantini.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2016

SQM) and Lithium Americas Corp. LAC) are forming a 50/50 joint venture to develop the Caucharí-Olaroz lithium project in Argentina. Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile S.A.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2023

Ensorcia, whose main operations are now based in Argentina and Chile, currently has several projects under study for the creation of different lithium processing plants in South America, Europe and North America. Ensorcia uses IBAT ’s modular, mobile DLE (Direct Lithium Extraction) technology.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 29, 2022

A group of documentarians has just driven the entire length of the Americas in a Tesla Model X and a Tesla Model 3, traveling from Alaska to the Southern most point of Argentina. Electric Americas is a project that groups together some of my favorite things; Tesla vehicles, extreme sports, and documentaries.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2015

Nissan Motor will invest $600 million in Argentina and will become an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) with the domestic production there of an all-new NP300 Frontier pick-up. With the expansion, Nissan is making Argentina a key component of its regional strategy eventually to position itself among the Top 3 brands in Latin America.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2016

Argentina offers one of the few places on earth where oil companies are not suffering from the full force of the collapse in prices. Argentina regulates oil prices, a policy originally intended to insulate the public from the whims of the market, protecting people from triple-digit crude prices. by Nick Cunningham of Oilprice.com.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2015

Argentina, once a regional energy leader, is now better known for financial busts and bombastic politicians than hydrocarbons prospects. The question today is just how much Argentina is willing to change and how this plays into a low oil price environment that is already negatively impacting investment elsewhere.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2022

Bolivia is lithium-rich; the USGS estimates identified lithium reserves in the country to be 21 million tons—ahead of Argentina and Chile, the other members of the “lithium triangle”. However, Bolivia is production-poor; Chile and Argentina are top global producers, but Bolivia has yet to produce the mineral in commercial quantities.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

to construct multiple isobutanol plants in Argentina using corn as a feedstock. As one of the leading engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) service providers to the ethanol industry in Argentina, Porta would provide the EPC services for the projects. Patrick Gruber, Gevo CEO.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2019

They will be integrated into the existing Metbus fleet to operate the popular Avenida Grecia route, becoming the first route operated by only electric buses in Latin America. Metbus is also one of the largest pure electric bus fleet operators in the Americas. The first 100 BYD buses were delivered to Santiago in December 2018.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 23, 2022

” So far, South America has been a laggard in the transition to electric mobility. By Juan Diego Celemín Mojica “Passionate for all things Latin American, I’ve been closely following the energy and mobility transitions since they started to be present south of the Equator.”

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2021

Now, the company is broadening its supplier base and additionally sourcing lithium from Argentina, where the raw material is obtained from brine from salt lakes. View of the salt lake Salar del Hombre Muerto in northern Argentina. In this way, the company creates complete transparency over the origin and mining methods of the material.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2021

—Lara Zhang, Regional Director of BYD Latin America. BYD entered the Colombian market in 2012 and made several milestone achievements: building the first pure electric taxi fleet in South America in 2013, entering the Bogotá BRT system in 2017. There are currently 483 electric buses in TRANSMILENIO S.A,

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AUGUST 23, 2022

” If you missed part 1 of this series, see: South American Plugin Vehicle Markets, A Brief Overview — Part 1: Argentina, Peru, & Ecuador. Chile […].

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Rio Tinto has entered into a binding agreement to acquire the Rincon lithium project in Argentina from Rincon Mining , a company owned by funds managed by the private equity group Sentient Equity Partners, for $825 million. The project is a long-life, scaleable resource capable of producing battery-grade lithium carbonate.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

The Córdoba (Argentina) City Council and the Renault-Nissan Alliance have signed a letter of intent (LOI) on joint research into how electric vehicles can improve quality of life and environmental conditions for the citizens of this provincial capital.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 23, 2022

” If you missed part 1 and part 2 of this series, see: South American Plugin Vehicle Markets, A Brief Overview — Part 1: Argentina, Peru, […].

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

This order also sees BYD again smashing the record for the largest electric bus order in the Americas, following its delivery of 183 buses to Chile during August 2019. It is estimated that in its first year of operation, this fleet will cancel out 21,900 tons of CO 2 and 526 kilograms of PM 2.5.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 6, 2024

Established in 2016, PGCO owns two lithium projects in Argentina – the Pastos Grandes lithium project and Cauchari East lithium project, according to Ganfeng. in a subsidiary of Lithium Americas Argentina Corp, as China’s leading lithium producer ramps up its efforts to secure resources.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2010

Balqon Corporation, an emerging developer and manufacturer of heavy-duty electric vehicles for Class 7 and Class 8 applications ( earlier post ), has entered into a Dealer Agreement with Autoelevadores Yale, a leading distributor of material handling equipment and electric vehicles in Argentina.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 22, 2023

If you ask me, it’s mainly these three conditions that have marked Latin America as one of the laggards in the EV transition. Long distances, oilfields, and low salaries abound south of the Rio Bravo. Alas, all bad times should come to an end, and recent developments in the region start to show not a […]

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2020

Grown as a scalable cover crop in Argentina, it will be processed into a renewable fuel with best-in-class greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction. Nuseed added carinata to its global portfolio in November 2019, following a successful pilot project in Argentina and acquiring specific carinata technology from the crop’s developer.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Nuseed and BP Products North America Inc., Nuseed is currently increasing commercial production in Argentina and planning expansion programs in South America and the United States. bp expects to initially target low-carbon biofuel markets in Europe and North America. million barrels a year in 2022.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2022

Under the agreement, Ford will explore becoming the foundation customer for Rio Tinto’s Rincon lithium project in Argentina. Rio Tinto’s Rincon is a large lithium brine project located in the heart of the lithium triangle in the Salta Province of Argentina. Rio Tinto completed its acquisition of Rincon earlier this year. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The pyrg is only known to live in 13 small isolated springs around Thacker Pass in Humboldt County, an area where Canada-based Lithium Americas plans to develop a lithium mine. Lithium Americas is focused on advancing the Cauchari-Olaroz and Pastos Grandes projects in Argentina and the Thacker Pass project in Nevada. Background.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2010

General Motors is creating a new regional organization to meet rising customer demand in South America. GM South America will be headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil and will be led by Jaime Ardila, currently president and general manager GM Mercosur. GM South America currently has 29,000 employees.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2022

has sold seven of its HydraGEN on-board electrolysis units ( the HG1R, 4C and 6C units) which are to be installed in Peru, Argentina and Brazil in open-pit mines on various equipment, including Caterpillar 793 and 777 Haul Trucks and a large 4.5 Canada-based dynaCERT Inc. MW diesel generator with a CAT280-16 engine. CAT 793F mine haul truck.

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JULY 22, 2022

Ford plans to reach a 600,000 global EV run rate by late 2023 with the following EVs: 270,000 Mustang Mach-Es for North America, Europe and China. 150,000 F-150 Lightnings for North America. 150,000 Transit EVs for North America and Europe. Ford announced that Contemporary Amperex Technology Co.,

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

BASF broke ground for its new production plant for sodium methylate in Guaratinguetá, Brazil, its largest site in South America. BASF expects about 15% of the annual global demand for biodiesel, which is about 30 million tons, to come from South America in 2015. Other South American countries have similar legislation.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2020

In South America, brine operations have been much less affected. However, production losses in Argentina are likely to be approximately 35% in 2020, as already delayed expansion plans become delayed further, Roskill said.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2013

Buquebus is the largest tourism transportation company in Uruguay, connecting more than 2 million passengers in Argentina and Uruguay per year by boat and by bus. Buquebus is also the largest Tourist Agent in South America, selling more than 300,000 hotel beds and 400,000 city tours per year.

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JANUARY 25, 2023

The authors examined four cases of lithium mining: Argentina, Chile, the United States, and Portugal. Lithium supply chains span the world from Latin America to China to Australia, with new extraction being planned in Europe, Canada, the United States and beyond. Riofrancos et al.

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MARCH 8, 2015

Leaded gasoline was a larger emission source of the toxic heavy metal lead than mining in South America, even though the extraction of metals from the region’s mines historically released huge quantities of lead into the environment, according to a study by researchers from the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI and the University of Bern.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2013

In 2012, East Asia accounted for 60% of total global consumption with Europe accounting for a further 24% and North America 9%. Lithium extraction, which totalled more than 168,000t LCE in 2012, is undertaken predominately in Australia, Chile, Argentina and China, with roughly half of lithium output from hard rock sources and half from brine.

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Teslarati

APRIL 11, 2023

In a comment to Teslarati , EnergyX explained that it does not currently own any lithium brine reserves but plans to be a refiner for other extractors in the Americas. These facilities will be built in Argentina, Chile, California, Arkansas, and Utah, respectively.

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JANUARY 27, 2016

Prior to these positions, he was executive vice president, Ford Motor Company, and president of Ford’s Americas division. Fields also previously led Ford’s European operations, served as president and CEO, Mazda Motor Corporation in Japan and was the managing director of Ford Argentina earlier in his career.

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