Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2011

A Korean consortium including Korea Resources Corp. 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. Korea Herald. million tons, respectively. million tons and 2.6

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2012

Lithium producer Galaxy Resources Ltd says prices for both technical and battery grade lithium carbonate in its key market, China, have risen significantly on the back of tight demand and supply fundamentals, with current prices up almost 17% on the same time last year. This means that as well as adhering to the 99.5%

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2022

Even Tesla, despite its substantial efforts to hold the line on affordability, has suffered from the effects of war, supply chain disruptions and the rising costs of raw materials. As the price of EV batteries continues to skyrocket , major automakers ranging from Ford and GM to BMW and Volkswagen are shoring up supply chain strategies.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2016

Driven by the rise of battery gigafactories and game-changing Powerwall and energy storage businesses, the world now finds itself at the beginning of a lithium super cycle that is all about securing new supply, much of which is poised to come from lithium superstar Argentina. Remember—this is one man, one company.

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Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

domestic supply of lithium. Globally, 27 percent of all passenger vehicles are forecasted to be EV by 2030. GM projects more than $1 million in EV sales globally by 2025. Our domestic supply chain simply isn’t ready. Americans have experienced what it is like to depend on foreign oil supplies to power our vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2023

The energy transition requires a massive increase in the supply of critical materials, yet supply chains remain vulnerable to a range of geopolitical risks. Although there is no scarcity of reserves for these energy transition minerals, global capabilities for mining and refining them are limited.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

China continues to dominate BloombergNEF’s (BNEF) global lithium-ion battery supply chain ranking, for the third time in a row, for both 2022 and its projection for 2027, due to continued support for the electric vehicle demand and raw materials investments. —Allan Ray Restauro, metals and mining analyst at BNEF and lead author.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Electric cars in the garages would double as battery packs for when energy supplies are scarce. Aren’t we just exchanging one nonrenewable resource for another? Most of the worlds Lithium is located in Bolivia, 50% plus. Bolivia is no friend of the USA. There are only 3 or 4 countries with lithium. — Bill 7.

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