Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2021

Materials supply chain intelligence company Roskill expects Indonesia to become the world’s largest producer of refined nickel this year, pushing China to second place. As recently as 2014, Indonesia produced only 24kt of refined nickel. Now, the government is encouraging investment into nickel for electric vehicle batteries.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 19, 2022

Indonesia President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo doesn’t just want a Tesla battery factory in the country. In recent comments, the official highlighted that he would also want Tesla to build an electric vehicle plant in Indonesia. “What we want is the electric car, not the battery.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 14, 2023

Tesla is looking to bring a “quite big” investment to Indonesia in order to build a battery factory in the country, according to the country’s Senior Minister, Luhut Pandjaitan, who posted on Instagram today talking about a meeting with CEO Elon Musk. I’d love to chat!

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Nickel Industries from down under has invited Tesla, Panasonic, Northvolt, and other automakers and battery suppliers to invest in its facilities in Indonesia. The Australian company plans to expand into the high-purity nickel industry in the electric vehicle (EV) industry. Indonesia is still communicating with Tesla.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 4, 2024

“It’s worth noting that there is concentration of risk for lithium battery production, with over 70% being produced in China alone,” said, ACEN CEO Eric Francia.

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Teslarati

APRIL 16, 2023

Indonesia’s Minister of Investment, Bahlil Lahadalia, recently stated that Volkswagen plans to build an electric vehicle (EV) battery ecosystem in the Southeast Asian country. The German automaker is partnering with miner Vale, Ford, and Chinese battery minerals producer Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt to build the EV ecosystem.

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Electrek

MAY 20, 2022

Tesla has reportedly agreed to build a battery and electric vehicle factory in Indonesia, according to the country’s head of investments. The post Tesla agrees to build battery and EV factory in Indonesia, official says appeared first on Electrek.

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Electric Vehicles India

AUGUST 18, 2021

Indonesia converted 10 motorcycles to electric under pilot project . Indonesia has launched a pilot project to convert combustion engine motorcycles into electric vehicles as part of its national drive to make the transportation more eco-friendly said the energy ministry.

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InsideEVs

MAY 20, 2022

Indonesia's Investment Minister said the project might begin this year, although an agreement hasn't been signed yet.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2022

Sanctioning Russian nickel will slow the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) and hinder the decarbonization of Western economies, according to GlobalData. Geopolitical issues such as the Russia-Ukraine situation disturb the fine balance of battery metal supply chains. Trading had yet to resume as of 10 March.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Ford Motor Company, LG Energy Solution and Koç Holding signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MoU) to form a new joint venture subject to final agreement by all the parties to create one of Europe’s largest commercial electric vehicle battery cell facilities near Ankara, Turkey. Earlier post.)

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 1, 2021

Hyundai and LG are planning a new battery factory in Indonesia while Tesla has pushed back the start of production for the Semi and RIvian is thinking about a factory in the UK.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 8, 2022

Recent reports suggest that Tesla had signed contracts worth about $5 billion to purchase nickel products from Indonesia. Indonesia has major nickel reserves, and it has been putting serious effort into attracting Tesla into the country. Indonesia seems set on becoming a major force to be reckoned with in the electric vehicle sector.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2023

SK On will partner with Korea’s largest cathode material company EcoPro, and Chinese battery materials producer GEM to build a battery core material production facility in Saemangeum, South Korea. 50,000 tons of precursors can produce the cathode materials needed for batteries in about 300,000 units of 105 kWh electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Gojek, Southeast Asia’s leading mobile on-demand services platform, and PT TBS Energi Utama Tbk (TBS), a leading integrated energy company in Indonesia, have formed a joint venture to accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) in Indonesia. —Pandu Sjahrir, Vice President Director of TBS.

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Teslarati

APRIL 15, 2022

A series of CATL subsidiaries have announced a new $6 billion investment with Indonesia in an effort to boost nickel mining and processing, battery materials obtainment, battery manufacturing, and battery recycling as e-mobility continues to surge forward. IBI is also state-owned and engaged in the battery EV ecosystem.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 9, 2022

Tesla has entered into an agreement with Indonesia to purchase $5 billion worth of nickel over the next 5 years.

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Teslarati

APRIL 26, 2022

Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently accommodated a delegation from Indonesia in Gigafactory Texas. The group reportedly discussed a number of topics, among them being Indonesia’s nickel deposits , which would be valuable for Tesla and its battery production efforts. Several officials were part of the delegation.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2023

This is primarily due to a significant surplus in the Class 2 market that occurred in 2022 and is expected to remain throughout 2023-2024, mainly owing to growing production of low-grade nickel in Indonesia. Nickel use remains very robust in the long run, driven by higher demand in the battery sector and renewable energy. Mt to 3.22

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2023

A team from Cornell, with a colleague from Paul Scherrer Institute, has analyzed the trade-off between the decarbonization potential of the road transportation sector and its critical metal requirement from the demand-side perspective in 48 major countries committing to decarbonize their road transportation sectors aided by electric vehicles (EVs).

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 18, 2022

” Canada has the minerals and supplies automakers need to manufacture electric vehicles and EV batteries. In August, for instance, Volkswagen and Mercedes-Benz signed separate agreements with Canada for EV battery materials. Tesla Indonesia. “What we want is the electric car , not the battery.

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Teslarati

JULY 26, 2022

Tesla’s apparent nickel plans in Indonesia have met a challenge from environmental groups urging the Texas-based electric vehicle maker to reconsider its plans to invest in the country’s nickel industry. Prohibit nickel sourced and produced in Indonesia in every business line of Tesla Inc.

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Teslarati

MAY 25, 2022

Tesla’s potential battery facility in Indonesia will likely be built on one of the country’s most ambitious integrated industrial areas to date, according to Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan. “This is one that will change or transform Indonesia,” Luhut said.

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Teslarati

MARCH 15, 2024

LG Energy Solution (LGES) is planning to invest in NCMA (nickel-cobalt-manganese, aluminum) and LFP (lithium-iron-phosphate) batteries to strengthen its portfolio. On Thursday, March 14, the South Korean battery supplier reported that it invested over 1 trillion won ($760 million) in research and development (R&D) last year.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The HPAL would be located in Weda Bay, Indonesia, while the location of the BMR will be determined during the feasibility study. The BMR will supply nickel and cobalt to produce precursor cathode active materials (PCAM) and then cathode active materials (CAM) for lithium-ion batteries in electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2022

The global push to convert the world to electric vehicles will cause supply chain complexities that could undermine the alternative energy transition in the United States, according to a new report from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. The detailed report— Need Nickel?

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 31, 2023

Ford has taken steps to control its battery materials supply chain by securing a supply of nickel with two partners in Indonesia.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2020

The Thailand Board of Investment announced that Thailand has received more foreign direct investment supporting the country’s growing electric vehicle production ecosystem. The ASEAN member states are Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.

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Teslarati

MARCH 9, 2022

With electric vehicles becoming more prolific, raw materials used in battery packs have become hot commodities. And according to Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas, the rising price of one particular material — nickel — could result in general electric vehicle prices seeing a $1,000 price increase.

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InsideEVs

JULY 31, 2021

The gigafactory will supply batteries for over 150,000 battery electric vehicles annually.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

In its new ten-year market outlook to 2027, Roskill, a leading provider of international metals and minerals research, forecasts primary nickel consumption to rise by just under 4% per year between 2017 and 2027, driven by increased consumption by stainless steel producers and by growth in demand in the automotive battery sector.

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Teslarati

APRIL 15, 2024

Stellantis is preparing to make India its main electric vehicle (EV) export hub in Southeast Asia. The automaker exported 500 units of its Citroen eC3 EV to Indonesia, and it isn’t stopping there. It also exported some Jeep vehicles from India to Japan.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2022

and LG Energy Solution (LGES) have executed binding, definitive agreements to establish the first large-scale, domestic, electric-vehicle battery manufacturing facility in Canada. billion USD) to establish operations, which will include an all-new battery manufacturing plant located in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2022

Ford announced a series of initiatives for sourcing battery capacity and raw materials that light a clear path to reach its targeted annual run rate of 600,000 electric vehicles by late 2023 and more than 2 million by the end of 2026. To support its joint ventures, Ford is direct-sourcing battery cell raw materials as well.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2021

Hence, the enhanced partnership will focus on addressing some of these barriers by piloting new EV business models such as leasing EVs with a battery-as-a-service model or car-as-a-service model, and EV financing. The pilot programs will start in 2021, beginning in Singapore, and expand to Indonesia and Vietnam.

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Blink Charging

APRIL 6, 2023

Perhaps nothing illustrates the rise of electric vehicles over the past decade more than this statistic: In 2012, the total number of electric vehicles (EVs) sold in the entire world was 120,000. However, there are still challenges ahead, most notably with procuring the raw materials needed for battery production.

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Teslarati

MARCH 13, 2024

Tesla executive Rohan Patel pointed out Southeast Asia’s potential as a place for growth in battery storage and electric vehicle adoption. He recently congratulated a new Model Y owner in Malaysia on his new Tesla vehicle. Patel is Tesla’s Vice President of Public Policy and Business Development.

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