Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

A study by Ricardo Strategic Consulting has concluded that while sluggish automotive demand in Europe, Japan and North America will be balanced by the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) markets through 2020, thereafter the ‘Rising-15’ nations become the engine for profitable growth—assuming political stability.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2011

In the report, Gomes noted that the auto industry will also add to economic growth in Latin America. Sales continue to advance in Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Peru, leading automakers to plan for an additional 13% increase in vehicle production over the coming year.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2015

Before the use of leaded gasoline (period AD 0–1960), lead emissions from mining activities were dominant, especially during periods of the pre-Colombian cultures Tiwanaku/Wari and the Incas, the colonial era and with the increasing industrialization in the 20th century (brown, blue). Picture: Paul Scherrer Institute. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2023

EnergyX’s technologies can make lithium metal directly from brine and potentially in anode-ready form for EV batteries, which enables more cost-effective and sustainable lithium recovery to unlock a vast lithium supply chain in North America that may otherwise be unviable.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2011

In the US, the MIT report notes, only 0.15% of natural as is used as a vehicle transportation fuel; 32% of consumption is in the industrial sector, and 35% is in the residential and commercial sectors. Of these fuels, the report says, methanol is the only one that has been produced for a long period at large industrial scale.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2013

First, demand for passenger travel may be saturating in industrialized countries. This highlights the need for policies to direct the transition toward lower-emission substitutes for conventional oil, as is already happening in countries such as Argentina. Recent trends suggest that a demand-driven peak is increasingly plausible.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2016

Driven by the rise of battery gigafactories and game-changing Powerwall and energy storage businesses, the world now finds itself at the beginning of a lithium super cycle that is all about securing new supply, much of which is poised to come from lithium superstar Argentina. This means that the new market is all about new players.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

The Model 3 became the world’s best-selling EV, as it was boosted by sales in North America, where it first became available. Many carmakers felt the effects of trade tensions between the world’s biggest economies, political changes in key markets, and new threats to the status quo of the industry. Tesla finally took off.

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Push EVs

JULY 21, 2022

Moreover, the carmaker plans to localize and use 40 GWh of LFP capacity in North America starting in 2026. 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. DEARBORN, Mich.,

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2012

of the global vehicle industry. Sales were up in all four reporting regions—North America, South America, Europe and International Operations—as GM sold a total of 9,025,942 vehicles compared with 8,385,484 in 2010. North America. South America. General Motors Co. gain compared with 2010.

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Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

may be forced to rely on foreign countries–primarily China, Australia and Chile, Argentina and Bolivia in South America–or our lithium supplies. The encouraging news is that there are regions in North America that have the potential for massive lithium production. There is concern that the U.S. will have 3.2

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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. Not necessarily.

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