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Eramine Sudamerica joins Argentine lithium race with Salta plant – ET Auto

Baua Electric

Eramine Sudamerica is set to inaugurate its first lithium carbonate plant in the northern Argentine province of Salta this July, setting it on track to become the South American country’s fourth producer of the key battery metal. Over half the world’s known lithium resources are in South America.

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Another Tesla price cut possible thanks to plummeting lithium prices

Teslarati

Several factors have likely helped push Chinese lithium to its meager price. Foremost, the Chinese government recently ended incentives for electric vehicles, which has slightly slowed their adoption in recent weeks. What do you think of the article? But how could this affect Tesla pricing?

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Tesla And Other Tech Giants Scramble For Lithium As Prices Double

Green Car Congress

Chinese billionaire Jia Yueting is stepping onto Tesla’s playing field with its own electric car start-up, Faraday Future , and Apple is planning one too, by 2019. Link to original article: [link]. Tesla’s soon-to-be-completed gigafactory will produce more lithium-ion batteries than the rest of the world combined.

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2020 Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution

EV Sales

For example, with increasing evidence of genocidal Chinese government towards Uyghur residents, including forced labor camps, the lack of transparency regarding whether any Chinese EVs benefit from such labor prompts me to deduct 1 production point from China (out of ~25 it had earned). million EVs sold (70% of them “pure” BEVs).

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