Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2023

Some level of mining is necessary to build out zero-emission energy systems, the report concedes, but notes that the volume of extraction is not a given. The authors examined four cases of lithium mining: Argentina, Chile, the United States, and Portugal. This boom in demand would be met by the expansion of mining. Riofrancos et al.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2009

A coalition of 16 national hydrogen associations from around the world recently issued a joint statement addressed to Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework on Climate Change, asserting that hydrogen technologies could help to curb global greenhouse gas emissions.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2011

High oil prices, a global economic rebound, and new laws and mandates in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, and the United States, among other countries, are all factors behind the surge in production, according to research conducted by the Worldwatch Institute’s Climate and Energy Program for the website Vital Signs Online.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2013

For climate change, however, the nature of the substitutes will have a major impact. If the transition shifts from conventional oil to coal-to-liquids, oil sands, and palm oil (with associated emissions from land-use change in the latter case), peak output of conventional oil will be a significant net negative for greenhouse gas emissions.

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Plug In India

MARCH 15, 2023

Considering a use case with the following supply chain, The total emissions for lithium extraction in Chile, which then stays in Chile for lithium processing and proceeds to Korea for cell manufacturing and vehicle assembly will be 1.5 Also EV’s have another advantage, as the grid gets cleaner your EV will emit less and less emissions.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 17, 2009

Biofuels could have doubled the carbon dioxide emissions of the fossil fuels they replace - equivalent to putting half a million extra cars on the road - since a new law adding them to UK fuel came in a year ago, new research published by Friends of the Earth shows. million tonnes of extra carbon dioxide emissions.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 20, 2010

Toyota Tsusho Corp, a trading house and key Toyota supplier that Toyota owns 22 percent of, just announced that it would be jointly developing a new lithium project in Argentina with the Australian-listed Orocobre Ltd. For more information read: Toyota in Argentine Lithium Deal for Hybrid Car Push. By Eriko Amaha for Reuters. By Eriko Amaha.

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