Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2011

KORES ) and steelmaker POSCO has entered an agreement with Bolivia’s state-run miner Comibol (Corporación Minera de Bolivia) to set up a joint venture to produce lithium intended for lithium-ion batteries. POSCO plans to bid for construction of lithium-carbonate manufacturing and processing facilities in Uyuni, it added.

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Bolivia Li-ion Serbia Brazil 199

Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Reeling from a crushing shortage of semiconductor chips for vehicles, carmakers also face another looming crisis: producing enough batteries to drive the global pivot towards electric vehicles. The Democratic Republic of Congo produces 70 percent of the world's cobalt, and most of the world's nickel sits under Indonesian rainforests.

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Batteries Battery Hawaii Nauru 125

Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2021

Clean energy may mean less mining for coal, but it also means opening or expanding mines to unearth minerals such as cobalt for use in alloys and batteries, tellurium for solar cells and semiconductors, and germanium for transistors in electronic devices.

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Missouri Green Energy Production 186

Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2021

If we want to achieve a 100% carbon-free economy by 2050, we have to create our own supply of these materials, including alternatives here at home in America. At present, the US relies on imports from nations such as China and the Democratic Republic of Congo for these critical materials. —Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm.

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