Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2017

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a proposed rule setting the minimum amount of renewable fuels that must be supplied to the market in calendar year 2018 under the Renewable Fuel Standards (RFS) program. Increased fuel security is an important component of the path toward American energy dominance.

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2018 EPA Renewable 2017 150

Plug In India

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

If we are going to look beyond the EV itself to the energy that powers it, shouldn’t we do the same for the fossil fueled combustion car? The electricity usage for the 1,42,054 onshore wells that supply oil to India is over 1,415 GWh a month! This is just from the energy used to pump oil out of the ground and offshore for India.

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Petrol Diesel Vehicles Oil 59

Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

domestic supply of lithium. Our domestic supply chain simply isn’t ready. Countries in the western world are phasing out gasoline-powered cars and rushing to lock down their lithium supplies. This concern is so great that President Biden has ordered a strategic review of supply chains of critical resources, including lithium.

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Energy Bolivia South America Supplies 76

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

In 2017, Australia, Chile, and Argentina produced 91% of all lithium while the rest of the world supplied the remaining 9%. Clean Energy Manufacturing Analysis Center, “Are there enough materials to cover li-ion batteries?”. The Democratic Republic of Congo produced 59% of the world’s cobalt.

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Chile Argentina Australia 2017 281

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

First announced in June 2022, the MSP is a new multilateral initiative to bolster critical mineral supply chains essential for the clean energy transition. Additional minerals-rich countries in attendance included Argentina, Brazil, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mongolia, Mozambique, Namibia, Tanzania, and Zambia.

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Namibia Zambia Tanzania Mozambique 210

Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2021

Li-ion batteries currently are the indispensable enabling technology for electric vehicles and the electric grid, the latter due to the need to store energy from renewable sources. Extracting the raw materials, mainly lithium and cobalt, requires large quantities of energy and water. Batteries are crucial for Earth’s low-carbon future.

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Li-ion Cost Of Lithium Ion South Korea 199

Drive Electric

AUGUST 9, 2022

With the introduction of the Clean Car Discount in 2022, the skyrocketing prices of petrol and diesel across the country and the increasing number of electric vehicles available in New Zealand, we are seeing more EVs on our roads than ever before. Vehicle manufacturing is an energy-intensive process. Manufacturing an Electric Vehicle.

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Environment Electric Vehicles New Zealand Vehicles 98

Drive Electric

AUGUST 9, 2022

With the introduction of the Clean Car Discount in 2022, the skyrocketing prices of petrol and diesel across the country and the increasing number of electric vehicles available in New Zealand, we are seeing more EVs on our roads than ever before. Vehicle manufacturing is an energy-intensive process. Manufacturing an Electric Vehicle.

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Environment Electric Vehicles New Zealand Vehicles 52