Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Volkswagen is investing some €560 million (US$652 million) over the next five years in the production of a new MQB-based SUV in Pacheco, Argentina. From 2020, the plant will deliver the new model built in Argentina to the entire South American continent. Key drivers behind this positive development are Brazil and Argentina.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2023

The vessel will operate between Argentina and Uruguay. Delivery of the Wärtsilä equipment is scheduled for the latter part of 2024, and the vessel will be delivered in 2025. The uniquely designed vessel will be fully battery powered, with e-motor driven Wärtsilä waterjets as the main propulsors.

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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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Baua Electric

JANUARY 15, 2024

Argentina is part of the “Lithium Triangle” along with Chile and Bolivia with more than half of the world’s total lithium resources and having the distinction of having 2nd largest lithium resources. The signing took place in Catamarca, Argentina, in the presence of Catamarca’s Governor Lic.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Germany-based Evonik Industries is building a new plant for manufacturing catalysts for biodiesel production in Argentina. It will primarily serve markets in Argentina and Brazil, with an annual capacity of more than 60,000 metric tons. Evonik will be part of a site where Terminal 6 S.A.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2020

With the pandemic spreading across the globe, strict lockdowns in key markets, combined with consumer panic and economic uncertainty, have all contributed to the huge decrease in sales last month. Registrations fell in all 27 markets, but with varying severity. This downward trend is not simply due to the restrictions of free movement.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2020

The Nuseed Carinata production system, currently grown in Argentina, achieved best in class greenhouse gas reduction (GHG), certified by the leading independent globally recognized Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB). Nuseed Carinata is processed by Saipol, Europe’s largest biodiesel producer, at the Grand-Couronne plant in France.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2021

BYD will co-work with Superpolo, a Colombian bus manufacturer, on the body part of the buses for such order. 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. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2010

Cargill will invest a total of US$112 million in an 18 MW co-generation plant and a soybean biodiesel production plant with a processing capacity of 240,000 tons per year in Argentina.

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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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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 2, 2023

Brine operations, mostly in Chile and Argentina, generate about 75% of worldwide production. Demand for US-produced lithium is particularly strong due to tax incentives that reward consumers for buying electric vehicles with domestically produced and assembled parts.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

However, a slowdown is being signaled with just two of the high-potential BRIC markets likely to see increased sales this year. China will lead the sector’s volume growth, with particular strength in SUVs, though IHS expects the market to slow from 2014. —Nigel Griffiths, chief automotive economist, IHS Automotive. North America.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2020

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

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

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The crust of earth contains an average of about 60 parts per million (ppm) or 0.006% while sea water typically contains 0.18 The Association will include Members from the entire supply chain: from resource to the end-users. Traces of this element are present in nearly all minerals, brines, clays and sea water. ppm Li (0.0018%).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2022

Canada’s growth is due in part to the Enbridge Line 3 crude oil pipeline expansion (760,000 b/d capacity), which became operational in October 2021. The remaining key sources of forecast non-OPEC production growth come from Norway, Argentina, Kazakhstan, Oman, and Guyana.

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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 and CATL—the world’s largest battery producer—have signed a separate non-binding MOU to explore a cooperation for supplying batteries in Ford’s markets across China, Europe and North America.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2015

The primary target markets for the truck are Europe, Australia, South Africa and Latin America. The NP300, sold under the name NP300 Navara and NP300 Frontier (depending on the market), was launched in June 2014 and is currently produced in Thailand and Mexico. Market Background Vehicle Manufacturers'

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Electric Vehicles India

AUGUST 10, 2021

Secondly, it has a huge potential in the Indian market and. Lithium is among one of the costliest materials that are found outside of India, in other countries such as Chile Australia, China, Argentina, etc. In Australia, there are 2,800,000 tons of Lithium reserves and in Argentina, there are 1,700,000 tons of Lithium reserves.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2019

Although they function unobtrusively, manual gearboxes have a significant share of the gearbox market worldwide due to a high installation rate. Only slight modifications were sufficient to improve efficiency and consumption. The trend towards vehicles from the SUV segment with large-diameter wheels places high demands on the gearbox.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2018

The new training program was initiated by the Volkswagen brand’s Pilot Hall in Wolfsburg, which forms part of the Production and Logistics Board of Management division. The successful FEEP trainees will act as “midwives” for the new electric cars to be launched on the market as part of Volkswagen’s major electric offensive.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2010

GM South America includes GM’s existing sales and manufacturing operations in Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela as well as sales activities in those countries and Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay. In the first five months of the year, GM sold 394,000 vehicles in South America and its market share was 20.2%.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2018

Toyota Tsusho and Orocobre have been long-term partners in the development of the Salar de Olaroz Lithium Facility in Jujuy Province in northern Argentina, a lithium brine project, which was brought into successful production in 2014. Demand growth to date has seen the lithium price more than doubled in the past few years.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2020

The result of a 7-year collaboration, the study was able to show that in large parts of the world, recent urban growth has increasingly resulted in inflexible and disconnected street networks. Gridded street networks, on the other hand, promote efficient, dense urban form in Bolivia, Argentina and Peru.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 15, 2023

of global greenhouse gas emissions, or about as much carbon as the country of Argentina produces annually, according to the International Energy Agency. This research was funded, in part, by the National Science Foundation and the MIT-Accenture Fellowship. Sudhakar, Soumya, Vivienne Sze, and Sertac Karaman.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2009

The cleantech market intelligence firm forecasts that the number of NGVs on the road worldwide will grow to 17 million vehicles by 2015, up from 9.7 Globally, Pike Research forecasts that the NGV market will grow at a CAGR of 5.5% The reasons for NGV market growth vary for each country, according. million in 2008.

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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. Verde in Spain.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2022

Marking the first overseas on-road trial of an Equipmake-developed electric bus, the zero-emission single decker is set to start in-service running in Argentina’s capital in Q3 of this year.

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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. Orocobre went public in December 2007 and now has a current market capitalization of nearly A$150 million.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2023

Vancouver-based Ultra Lithium announced the brine sampling results from a drill hole at its 100% owned Laguna Verde brine lithium project in Catamarca Province, Argentina. Drill hole LV22-04 assayed up to 417 parts per million (ppm or mg/L) lithium (Li) from two rounds of sampling completed in January – February 2023.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 15, 2024

That’s been the thinking of leaders from developed countries, who’ve been seeking ways to China-proof the market for lithium , the light metal that’s essential for high-performance rechargeable power packs. Even in Canada, Chinese money has been crucial. while the other was owned by Chinese battery producer Contemporary Amperex Technology Co.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 17, 2024

By now, they were supposed to be well into the first leg of the three-year Life at Sea cruise , sailing from Ushuaia, Argentina, to Punta Arenas in Chilean Patagonia. Mr. Petterson, who was in charge of sales and marketing at the time, said he did not feel comfortable collecting large sums of money when the company did not have a U.S.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2010

These products are currently primarily sold in the US, Canada, Argentina, and Brazil. It is currently estimated to be worth around US$250 million, forming part of the agricultural biologicals industry, which is. The acquired business will be consolidated within Novozymes and will be reported as part of. Growing business.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2010

Juniper will grow the business through new OEM relationships and continued strong aftermarket sales, leveraging OMVL’s capabilities and assembly facilities in Italy and Argentina that today supply Europe, Asia and the Americas. In 2009, Juniper Engines introduced its new 2.0-liter liter and 2.4-liter liter alternative fuel engines.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2010

practices on the worldwide biodiesel market—specifically, on the part of US biodiesel producers. Biodiesel exports from Argentina are also becoming problematic for the EU producers, EBB said. EBB urged swift implementation of new EU directives for biofuels, along with: Full harmonization of the biofuels market.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2011

Estimates of shale gas resources in other parts of the world are highly uncertain, the EIA notes. In addition to the United States, this group includes Canada, Mexico, China, Australia, Libya, Algeria, Argentina, and Brazil. The US is second, with 862 Tcf, followed by Argentina with 774 Tcf and Mexico with 681 Tcf. Background.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

It was one of the highest increases among all car categories on the global market, which can be explained by several factors, JATO said. Chinese demand for EVs soared throughout 2018, as the car-type gained more visibility among consumers, due in part to their promotion by local governments for their environmental impact.

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