Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2018

World energy consumption projections expect coal to stay one of the world’s main energy sources in the coming decades, and a growing share of it will be used in CT—the conversion of coal to liquid fuels (CTL). By 2020, CTL is expected to account for 15% of the coal use in China. —Wang et al.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2023

Blastr has entered into a Letter of Intent with Nordic energy company Fortum that provides Blastr exclusive rights to utilize the existing industrial site located in Joddböle, Inkoo in Finland, 55 km west of Helsinki. Fortum has developed the Joddböle area since the dismantling of its Inkoo coal-fired power plant there in 2017-2020.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2021

TMRC’s project partners include Penn State, Jeddo Coal Company and McCarl’s. In 2019 a consortium including Texas Mineral Resources consortium successfully completed a US Department of Energy Office of Fossil Energy grant to produce multiple separated rare earth minerals from Pennsylvania coal mining waste material.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2023

In association with researchers from the Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) and analysts at mining consultancy Weir International, metallurgical coal producer Ramaco Resources released an independent Exploration Target report with technical assessment of rare earth elements (REE) found at its Brook Mine in Wyoming.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2020

million in federal funding to develop conceptual designs of commercially viable technologies that will extract rare earth elements (REEs) from US coal and coal by-product sources. The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy selected 13 projects to receive approximately $1.95

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2021

Hunan and Inner Mongolia are among the most affected areas of the battery supply chain, with the former a production hub for cathodes and the latter a hub for synthetic graphite anode processing. In the long-term, China seeks to guarantee resource security by addressing the structural issues behind the current electricity supply shortage.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2023

BASF has opened Europe’s first co-located center of battery material production and battery recycling in Schwarzheide, Germany. This underlines BASF’s commitment to establishing a robust, localized battery value chain in Europe. We are happy to support this transformation with IPCEI funding.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2018

An economically-sustainable hydrogen industry in Australia could soon be on the cards according to a blueprint released by CSIRO, the national science agency, which found that cost-competitiveness is firmly on the horizon. Source: CSIRO. —CSIRO Chief Executive Dr Larry Marshall.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2021

The results show there is no realistic pathway to full decarbonization of internal combustion engine vehicles, and that only battery and hydrogen fuel-cell EVs have potential to be very low-GHG passenger vehicle pathways. This study uses recent data on industrial-scale battery production and considers regional battery supply chains.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2021

After a project with an annual output of 50,000 tons of lithium hydroxide is put into operation, the total designed capacity of battery-grade lithium hydroxide in the plant will reach 81,000 tons; it can also produce 15,000 tons of lithium carbonate, 12,000 tons of lithium chloride and other compound products each year.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2021

The Czech Ministry of Industry and Trade (MIT) and majority state-owned energy group ?EZ EZ signed a memorandum of understanding regarding the construction of a gigafactory for battery cells for electric vehicles. The automotive industry is the cornerstone of the Czech economy and its share in our GDP is almost 10 percent.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

billion to boost production of the advanced batteries that are critical to rapidly growing clean energy industries of the future, including electric vehicles and energy storage. DOE intends to fund battery materials refining and production plants, battery cell and pack manufacturing facilities, and recycling facilities.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded $19 million for 13 projects in traditionally fossil-fuel-producing communities across the country to support production of rare earth elements and critical minerals essential to the manufacturing of batteries, magnets, and other components important to the clean energy economy.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Today, coal-fired plants meet more than 60% of Indonesia’s power demand. Under the ETS, coal’s share rises to a peak of 74% by 2027 and then declines to 24% in 2050. Due to its wealth of nickel resources, Indonesia has already attracted plans for 25 gigawatt-hours of battery manufacturing capacity.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 12, 2014

Twelve years ago, he and others founded CalCars, a group dedicated to promoting plug-in hybrid vehicles with large battery packs--and built the world''s first plug-in Prius hybrid. Now he and coauthor Gil Friend have published an audacious proposal to buy up and shut down every private and public coal.'

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Creative Greenius

JULY 11, 2022

Oil, gas and coal workers have all known for more than a dozen years that their work was helping to destroy people’s health and well being. So the justice I want to see is first, second and third for the victims in the sacrifice zones created by the oil, gas and coal companies. None of them are innocent bystanders.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Photo: Hornsea Project Europe’s coal electricity generation tanked by 26% and gas by 15% in 2023, according to a new report from energy think tank Ember. Interestingly, Europe’s shift away from fossil fuels wasn’t just about swapping coal and gas for wind and solar. Coal and gas are on their way out, and renewables are stepping up.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2023

Unconventional REE sources such as domestic coal and coal waste could yield the materials needed for the strong magnets necessary to turn wind into electricity and operate electric vehicles. The International Energy Agency estimates that demand may at least quadruple by 2040. In the paper, NETL experts Alison Fritz, Ph.D.,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2018

This year’s outlook is the first to highlight the significant impact that falling battery costs will have on the electricity mix over the coming decades. This year’s outlook is the first to highlight the significant impact that falling battery costs will have on the electricity mix over the coming decades.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2018

The partners from industry and power generation will use this facility to research into future breakthrough technologies which are needed to meet global climate goals over the long-term. The goal is to research real breakthrough technologies which will be applicable on an industrial scale in the next couple of decades. Earlier post.).

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Electric Vehicles India

APRIL 25, 2021

India’s Own Battery Manufacturing Plant. The Batteries are the most important part of an electric vehicle. India’s import of Lithium-ion batteries has increased four-time when compared to the last financial year. Almost 715 Million units of Lithium-ion battery units were imported from china and japan.

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Baua Electric

MAY 8, 2024

Making a battery for an electric vehicle typically requires mining hundreds of pounds of hard-to-extract minerals. That’s put a spotlight on batteries’ heavy environmental toll , at least upfront. EV batteries are simply too valuable to toss out, and a new industry of recyclers is busy snatching them all up.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 24, 2024

Making a battery for an electric vehicle typically requires mining hundreds of pounds of hard-to-extract minerals. That’s put a spotlight on batteries’ heavy environmental toll, at least upfront. EV batteries are simply too valuable to toss out, and a new industry of recyclers is busy snatching them all up.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 12, 2024

CNESA forecast improvements in the economics of battery energy storage in China this year, without providing specifics. Growth in China’s battery storage capacity could slow down in 2024, according to an industry association, as energy storage struggles with low profitability.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2022

Northvolt intends to establish a battery gigafactory in Heide, Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany. With an annual potential production capacity of 60 GWh, Northvolt Drei will deliver a supply of sustainably produced lithium-ion batteries to the European market, sufficient for some one million electric vehicles.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 26, 2021

Mining for battery materials can be a touchy subject. They normally don’t care one bit about the environmental impacts of things (or they wouldn’t support the oil and coal industries like they do). The haters and the people who stand to lose money in the transition to clean energy love to bring it up.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 11, 2024

Growth in China’s battery storage capacity could slow down in 2024, according to an industry association, as energy storage struggles with low profitability. This is particularly important for China, which has minimal natural gas capacity, a more flexible power source than slow-ramping coal plants.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 24, 2021

oil industry began when the first well was drilled in Pennsylvania. Back then, oil from animals (think whale blubber) was typically used, until a patent for creating kerosene from coal oil was patented in 1854. In 1848, gold was first discovered in California. In 1859, the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Liquid fuels remain the largest source of energy consumption, driven largely by the industrial and transportation sectors. Renewables will be the primary source for new electricity generation, but natural gas, coal, and increasingly batteries will be used to help meet load and support grid reliability.

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Additionally, the fear of running out of battery energy without access to a charger is perpetuated by the lack of a universal charging infrastructure. The industry has also had trouble selling EVs down market, with the segment historically catering to more affluent buyers. or from a free-trade agreement partner.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2020

The World Energy Investment 2020 report’s assessment of trends so far this year is based on the latest available investment data and announcements by governments and companies as of mid-May, tracking of progress on individual projects, interviews with leading industry figures and investors, and the most recent analysis from across the IEA.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 27, 2024

The alliance, including India, aims to secure 5 GW of battery energy storage by 2024, aligning with the long-term goal of developing 90 GW of storage capacity worldwide. However, beyond celebrating this achievement lies a broader recognition of the crucial role batteries play in driving clean energy transitions worldwide.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

This will reduce the carbon footprint of our supply chain by 900,000 tonnes per year, while at the same time driving the transformation of the steel industry. Around 20% of supply chain CO 2 emissions for a mid-sized fully-electric vehicle are attributable to steel— which comes in third, after battery cells and aluminum.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Australia’s Syngas Limited has engaged Rentech to provide Fischer-Tropsch fuels production preliminary engineering services for Syngas’ proposed commercial scale coal and biomass to liquids (CBTL) fuels facility in Southern Australia, known as the Clinton Project. Additionally, the Clinton coal fluidizes well.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

In trials, GE’s sodium metal halide Durathon batteries ( earlier post ) have successfully powered GE Mining’s Scoop, an underground vehicle that transports mining materials, at Coal River Energy, LLC in Alum Creek, West Virginia. Additionally, the battery contains no lead acid materials. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2018

First, environmental plant closures in the raw material coal needle coke industry hampered the production of graphite electrodes. Meanwhile, needle coke is being increasingly diverted into the battery market. Batteries underpin growth in natural graphite. China remains the center of the graphite industry.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2023

Aluminum is a critical element used in thousands of important products, but it can often interfere with quick and effective extraction of valuable rare earth elements (REEs) from coal waste byproducts. Earlier post.) Therefore, the detection of impurities such as aluminum is very important during REE processing.

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