Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Rio Tinto has started producing spodumene concentrate, a mineral used in the production of lithium for batteries, at a demonstration plant in its Rio Tinto Iron and Titanium (RTIT) Québec Operations in its metallurgical complex in Sorel-Tracy, Canada. —RTIT Managing Director Stéphane Leblanc.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2020

On behalf of the board, I am delighted and honoured to formally welcome CATL as a new shareholder and we look forward to working with them to advance the 3Q Project into construction and ultimate production. Process studies and metallurgical test work suggested splitting production into three processing sites: 3Q Salar, Fiambalá and Recreo.

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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 is currently progressing detailed planning to bring Rincon into production and will work with Ford toward a significant lithium off-take agreement to support its production of electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 24, 2022

Australia’s Department of Industry, Science and Resources released the December 2022 edition of the Resources and Energy Quarterly (REQ). Australia is the largest lithium exporter in the world, accounting for 46% of the world’s lithium production in 2021. billion in 2021–22 to $16.1 billion, and $17.0 billion in 2023–24.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2011

Eaton Corporation has signed a long-term agreement to design and supply Argentine bus manufacturer Tecnología Avanzada en Transporte S. with a hybrid electric power system for use in buses in Argentina and throughout South America. TATSA), a company wholly owned by Consorcio Metropolitano de Transporte S.A.,

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2020

Currently, virtually all of the lithium used in the US is produced outside the country—most is mined in Argentina, Chile, China, and Australia. California has vast lithium deposits—potentially as much as one-third of the world's current lithium demand according to some industry estimates. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2020

Based on company announcements to date related to operation scale-downs and closures, as well as national, provincial and local governmental measures, Roskill estimates that approximately 110Kt of mined LCE production could be lost over the course of 2020, due directly to actions taken to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Data and analytics company GlobalData forecasts that the demand for lithium needed for the production of lithium-ion batteries for use in EVs will more than double from 26.7kt in 2018 to 58.3kt in 2022. According to GlobalData, the global EV market is expected to grow at a substantial CAGR of 15.6% million by 2022. —Vinneth Bajaj.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2018

Roskill Information Services forecasts that the lithium industry will need to add nearly 100kt of new lithium carbonate equivalent (LCE) production per year by 2027 to keep up with demand driven by the global transition to electric vehicles. The shift to greater mineral production has been driven by several factors.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2018

Roskill Information Services forecasts that the lithium industry will need to add nearly 100kt of new lithium carbonate equivalent (LCE) production per year by 2027 to keep up with demand driven by the global transition to electric vehicles. The shift to greater mineral production has been driven by several factors.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2020

The outbreak of COVID-19 has already impacted the automotive industry significantly, according to JATO Dynamics, a leading provider of global automotive data and insight. The industry is being impacted largely by the uncertainty for the future, and this issue started to arise even before the pandemic took hold.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2013

The lithium industry is therefore becoming more reliant on rechargeable batteries to sustain high rates of future demand growth, Roskill concludes. Production is dominated by Talison Lithium in Australia, SQM and Rockwood Lithium in Chile, and FMC in Argentina.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2022

The company detailed its global vehicle portfolio plans supporting these production goals as part of its Ford+ plan. Ford expects a compound annual growth rate for EVs to exceed 90% through 2026, more than double forecasted global industry growth. 150,000 F-150 Lightnings for North America.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2020

Currently, Germany is a net importer of lithium needed for the production of battery cells for electric vehicles. Imports are coming from the typical mining countries Chile, Argentina, and Australia, which account for more than 80% of global production. Heavy rainfall can set back production there by weeks or even months.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 20, 2024

India has recently entered into a deal with Argentina for sourcing rare earth metals. In industry, rare earth metals are used both in mixed form and individually, with metal oxides predominantly employed. The topic of rare earth metals has become more prominent in discussions between Kazakh officials and their foreign partners.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2011

Rising global vehicle sales and profitability have encouraged automakers to continue to increase vehicle production, providing the global economy with some positive offset to the dampening impact of the recent surge in energy prices, according to the latest Global Auto Report released on Friday by Canada-based Scotia Economics.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2010

Balqon Corporation, a developer and manufacturer of zero emissions, heavy-duty electric vehicles and drive systems ( earlier post ), has received a $490,000 order for electric drive systems under a new dealer agreement with DynaProTech, a leading composite automotive parts manufacturer in the People’s Republic of China.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 6, 2023

It wasn’t until 1988—when McWilliams began working at Megger , a manufacturing company in Dover, England—that he experienced a shortened workweek: Employees worked half a day on Friday. A shorter workweek, she says, would encourage more girls and women to join the engineering industry.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

in 2014 as a result of industrial overcapacity and weakness in the real estate sector. The size of the market contraction in Russia is the biggest wild card facing vehicle manufacturers across the European continent, if not the world, in 2015 and 2016.” Uncertainty lingers over Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Venezuela for 2015.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2010

The integration of OMVL will complete Juniper’s light-duty strategy to enter the mobile industrial, non-mobile industrial, and automotive segments. liter industrial engine platforms, and OMVL’s LPG multipoint injection technology. OMVL has production and distribution capabilities in Europe, South America, Australia, and China.

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Plug In India

MARCH 15, 2023

The interesting thing is before electric cars were popular, no one in the auto industry or mainstream media even questioned where petrol or the metals used in engines are coming from. The reality is these mines are not even in use by the battery industry and they are not Lithium Mines. 4] An electric car emits about 3,000 pounds or 1.36

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2022

America’s electric vehicle (EV) industry seems to have hit a rough patch of pavement in recent months. Tesla isn’t the only EV manufacturer facing these hurdles. They are forming joint ventures with battery material manufacturers to build factories that will ensure future battery deliveries will be reliable and affordable.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2016

Since 2014, when Tesla first announced the Gigafactory with Panasonic, other manufacturers have begun to take notice and take action. While future demand from the automotive industry is significant, the real game changer for the lithium industry may be electrical grid storage. or Panasonic Corp. Electrical Grid Connections.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 18, 2023

Australian miners are global companies that are leading the search for critical minerals and materials to enable the green industrial revolution. At a local level, Queensland is encouraging miners to prepare for the time when coal is no longer their main product. But there is also a lot of movement on the international stage.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Carlos Ghosn, Chairman and CEO of the Alliance, described the partnership as “ one of the most productive in the auto industry. ”. The truck will be built by Nissan in the Renault plant in Cordoba, Argentina, along with the Nissan NP300 and a Renault 1-ton truck, for Latin America.

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Baua Electric

MAY 4, 2024

Five months into CY2024, the Indian two-wheeler industry is well placed to achieve strong numbers this year. The Chennai-based scooter, motorcycle and moped manufacturer is fast upping the ante on two-wheeler exports. Along with its two production facilities at Oragadam and Vallam Vadagal, near Chennai. The longstanding No.

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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. “Toyota is taking a step on its own to secure the materials it needs to ensure stable production.&#.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2009

Ten of the locomotives will be manufactured in Erie and Grove City, USA and 90 will be manufactured locally at Transnet Rail Engineering’s site in South Africa with kits provided by GE Transportation. The locomotives will also feature GE’s AC propulsion technology and dynamic braking.

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EV Info

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The Canadian stock market has plenty of small miners of all types that claim fantastic returns and special propriety technology to transform their industry. According to the latest figures from the US Geological Survey (USGS), global lithium production in 2019 stood at 77,000 tonnes. Big and Growing Market. m it reported in 2016.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2023

The collaboration is focused on unlocking the North American supply of lithium by using EnergyX’s direct lithium extraction (DLE) technology portfolio to maximize efficiency while improving sustainability for GM’s rapidly scaling EV production. We will unlock lithium supply in the US, a pivotal move in expanding the EV industry.

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Drive Electric

APRIL 12, 2023

The United States Geological Survey revealed that the world’s identified lithium resources are estimated to be around 79 million metric tons, with the largest reserves in Chile, Argentina, and Australia. The estimated amount of lithium needed to meet current demand is only between 0.5 – 1.3 million tons.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 4, 2024

As the United States intensifies its focus on transitioning to electric vehicles (EVs), nations holding free trade agreements (FTAs) with the US are positioned for a trade boost in the battery metal sector, according to insights from analysts and industry observers at S&P Global Commodity Insights. While this percentage is up 1.2

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2022

The war over global dominance of the electric vehicle battery industry seems like it ended before it really got started. As reported by Barron’s last month, the firm released an analysis of China’s stranglehold on the industry that supplies lithium-ion batteries for millions of electric vehicles around the world. “It Not necessarily.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2021

An editorial in the journal Nature calls on policy makers, industry leaders and researchers to mitigate quickly the environmental and human costs of Li-ion batteries. Around 90% of the DRC’s cobalt comes from its industrial mines (90,000 tonnes annually).The — Nature editorial. This would have a considerable carbon footprint.

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Drive Electric

AUGUST 9, 2022

EV MYTH ONE: Manufacturing EVs is just as bad for the environment as ICEVs. So, are electric vehicles are still as eco-friendly when the manufacturing process of the car and battery are taken into consideration? Vehicle manufacturing is an energy-intensive process. Manufacturing an Electric Vehicle.

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Drive Electric

AUGUST 9, 2022

EV MYTH ONE: Manufacturing EVs is just as bad for the environment as ICEVs. What’s less clear, is whether electric vehicles are still as eco-friendly when the manufacturing process of the car and battery are taken into consideration. Vehicle manufacturing is an energy-intensive process. Manufacturing an Electric Vehicle.

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Get Electric Vehicle

JUNE 6, 2023

  The electric vehicle industry is not just about cutting-edge technology and zero-emission vehicles. It also involves an intricate web of suppliers, manufacturers, and logistics providers. Global Component Suppliers The production of electric vehicles relies on a vast network of global component suppliers.

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