Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2020

Demand for raw materials used in the production of electric car batteries is set to soar, prompting the UN trade body, UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development), to call for the social and environmental impacts of the extraction of raw materials, which include human rights abuses, to be addressed urgently.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine and four national laboratories have devised a way to make lithium-ion battery cathodes without using cobalt. This achievement resolves long-standing safety and stability concerns around high-nickel battery materials, paving the way for broad-based commercial applications.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Roughly 60% of mined cobalt is sourced from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Half of the current supply of cobalt is incorporated into cathodes for lithium-ion batteries, and many of those batteries are used in consumer electronics and electric vehicles.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 21, 2021

These carmakers’ names were significant because the battery in an electric vehicle contains at least a few kilograms of cobalt , a metal that some hope one day to extract from the seabed—to the chagrin of many environmentalists.

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Drive Electric

AUGUST 9, 2022

With the introduction of the Clean Car Discount in 2022, the skyrocketing prices of petrol and diesel across the country and the increasing number of electric vehicles available in New Zealand, we are seeing more EVs on our roads than ever before. Useful terms: Internal Combustion Engine Vehicle (ICEV) and Electric Vehicle (EV).

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The electric vehicle sector is not just growing. It is also evolving, with key players in the industry now looking for a way to make batteries without the use of rare earth minerals. Back in 2020, Tesla announced that it was looking to remove cobalt from its batteries to create a better and cheaper electric vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Responsibly mined and processed raw materials provide the foundation for a sustainable Mercedes-Benz electric vehicle fleet. Currently, the focus is particularly on the battery raw materials cobalt and lithium. In the coming generations of battery cells, the cobalt content is already being reduced to less than ten percent.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2021

The major drive for this growth was the demand for cobalt in lithium-ion batteries. Demand for cobalt in lithium-ion batteries, used chiefly in portable electronics and electric vehicles, has increased at an annual rate of 10% between 2013 and 2020. Source: Cobalt Institute.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) can leverage its abundant cobalt resources and hydroelectric power to become a low-cost and low-emissions producer of lithium-ion battery cathode precursor materials, according to a new study on a unified African supply chain by BloombergNEF (BNEF). Source: BNEF.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Volkswagen says that it is actively engaging in improving artisanal cobalt mining conditions in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as well as the living conditions for people in the surrounding communities. Cobalt is an important raw material for the production of electric vehicle batteries.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2020

Eurasian Resources Group (ERG), a leading diversified natural resources group, is assessing the construction of a battery material plant to produce nickel-cobalt-manganese (NCM) precursor materials for batteries for electric vehicles (EVs). The expansion will be defined depending on market conditions.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2022

The Cobalt Institute’s Cobalt Market Report 2021 , prepared by CRU, confirms the role of cobalt as one the key commodities of the green future, due to the rapid growth of the lithium-ion battery market and a strong global uptake of electric vehicles. It is expected to account for half of the cobalt demand by 2026.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

The coming electric vehicle boom will significantly increase the demand for cobalt in the EU and globally. As a result, demand is expected to exceed supply already in 2020 and the EU must take steps to boost supply and curb demand without hindering the growth in electric vehicles, according to a new JRC (Joint Research Center) report.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2020

UC Berkeley School of Law’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment (CLEE) and the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) are conducting a stakeholder-led research initiative focused on identifying strategies to improve sustainability and governance across the EV battery supply chain.

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Drive Electric

AUGUST 9, 2022

With the introduction of the Clean Car Discount in 2022, the skyrocketing prices of petrol and diesel across the country and the increasing number of electric vehicles available in New Zealand, we are seeing more EVs on our roads than ever before. Useful terms: Internal Combustion Engine Vehicle (ICEV) and Electric Vehicle (EV).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2021

Glencore produces cobalt mainly as a by-product of copper mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), but also as a by-product of nickel mining in Australia and Canada. The partnership represents a major milestone for Britishvolt on its quest to assist vehicle OEMs on their roadmaps to electrification.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Lithium-ion battery recycling took a big step forward this week, as a Hawaiian utility announced it is undertaking one of the biggest examples of grid-storage recycling in North America to date. As such, it sets the stage for an expected rise in stationary battery storage recycling in the future.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2022

The country’s government and the mining sector are determined to transform its nickel industry to meet the rising demand for Class 1 nickel, a crucial component for electric vehicle (EV) batteries.). This would bring Indonesia into second place for cobalt mining, after the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Traction batteries and motors in electric vehicles (EVs) are very different than the powertrain components of the internal-combustion engine vehicles they replace. Battery Cell Materials. Battery Pack Materials. A commonly used cathode material, cobalt, has famously questionable mining practices.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2020

The cross-industry initiative “Cobalt for Development” has started trainings for twelve artisanal mining cooperatives in October in Kolwezi, Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo). —WEF, “Making Mining Safe and Fair: Artisanal cobalt extraction in the Democratic Republic of the Congo”.

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Charged EVs

JANUARY 18, 2023

Traceability is becoming a critical function in the EV industry, thanks to the “Buy American” requirements of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) and Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), and similar provisions in the EU’s new Battery Directive. I finished my career at PSA being an electric vehicle project manager.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2021

Glencore, one of the world’s leading producers of cobalt, produces cobalt mainly as a by-product of copper mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), but also as a by-product of nickel mining in Australia and Canada. The Benchmark webinar was part of the Cobalt Institute Conference on 19 May 2021.

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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. China processes about 80 percent of battery raw materials, creating a chokehold on global supplies.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2021

Major metals and mining companies CMOC, Eurasian Resources Group (ERG) and Glencore, in collaboration with battery material supplier Umicore, are piloting Re|Source , a solution to trace responsibly produced cobalt from the mine to the electric car.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Cobalt is one of the key components in production of electrified vehicles and is used in significant quantities in high-voltage batteries for electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids. The study is specifically evaluating whether local model projects could be implemented with the potential for scalability at a later date.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2021

An editorial in the journal Nature calls on policy makers, industry leaders and researchers to mitigate quickly the environmental and human costs of Li-ion batteries. The market for Li-ion batteries is projected to grow from $30 billion in 2017 to some $100 billion in 2025. As batteries improve, they will last longer.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Electric vehicles will make up as many as 8 out of 10 new cars sold in 2050, but it will still be a long road before they dislodge gasoline as the predominant fuel in transportation, IHS Markit Vice Chairman Daniel Yergin writes in his new book, The New Map: Energy, Climate and the Clash of Nations.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 10, 2024

Lithium — the ultra-light metal used in electric-vehicle batteries — has plunged more than 80% from a late-2022 record, as the market whiplashed from shortage fears to a mountain of surplus inventories. Battery metals have been a bright spot for the mining industry in recent years. Chemaf Resources Ltd.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Scientists inform us that today’s transportation sector is the largest contributor to US greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change, but how clean are lithium-ion batteries? First, it should be noted that while internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles produce 17.2% So, how clean is EV battery manufacturing?

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2021

Re|Source, a solution to trace responsibly produced cobalt from the mine to the electric vehicle ( earlier post ), acknowledged the progress made by Tesla in implementing the pilot project across its supply chain.

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 13, 2023

Fuel Cell Technology May Win Over Batteries. Batteries pose a few key challenges alternative electric vehicle power sources could resolve. The Challenges of Batteries. Electrifying heavy machinery and equipment—in addition to consumer vehicles—is essential to minimizing emissions.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Scientists inform us that today’s transportation sector is the largest contributor to US greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change, but how clean are lithium-ion batteries? First, it should be noted that while internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles produce 17.2% So, how clean is EV battery manufacturing?

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 4, 2024

CMOC is among the Chinese-owned companies aggressively expanding cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The metal is chiefly used in electric vehicle batteries , the aerospace and chemical sectors.

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Teslarati

MAY 22, 2023

During the 2023 annual shareholder meeting, Elon Musk directly addressed a proposal to have Tesla adopt third-party audits for its battery suppliers. The audits are designed to ensure that no child or forced labor is being used in the electric vehicle maker’s battery supply chain.

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Teslarati

APRIL 25, 2023

By far, cobalt is the most difficult to acquire mineral required to make a battery for an electric vehicle. According to Tesla’s 2022 Impact Report, one of its primary sources of cobalt is, as defined by the United Nations, the poorest country on Earth, the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2018

COBC intends to provide conflict-free cobalt to address burgeoning demand for advanced batteries in smartphones and electric vehicles and is gearing up to begin cobalt trading early in the fourth quarter of 2018. (COBC) and DLT Labs Inc.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Jervois intends to be capable of supplying refined nickel and cobalt products to customers across a range of industries including specialty stainless steels, nickel and cobalt superalloys, cathode precursor, lithium-ion battery and electric vehicles manufacturers. SMP Refinery restart scenarios.

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