Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2021

The salt lakes in the border region between Argentina, Bolivia and Chile are home to roughly half the world’s lithium reserves. Based on its current market forecast, the BMW Group expects at least 50% of its global sales to come from fully-electric vehicles in 2030.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 20, 2024

Global miner Rio Tinto will invest USD 350 million at its Rincon lithium plant in Argentina as it works to begin production by the end of the year, the company said this week following Chief Executive Jakob Stausholm ‘s visit to the site.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 16, 2024

” The move aligns with India’s broader strategy to secure essential minerals from resource-rich nations globally. V L Kantha Rao, India’s top bureaucrat in the mining ministry, had previously hinted at the country’s interest in lithium assets, mentioning preliminary discussions with Bolivia in December.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

A combination of high fuel costs, concerns about petroleum availability and air quality issues related to fossil fuel-based vehicles are driving interest in electric vehicles. This action by China highlights the risks of global dependence. —Ona Egbue.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2010

GM South America includes GM’s existing sales and manufacturing operations in Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela as well as sales activities in those countries and Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay. In the first five months of the year, GM sold 394,000 vehicles in South America and its market share was 20.2%.

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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. Among the other countries, identified lithium resources for Bolivia and Chile total 9 million tons and in excess of 7.5

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Most of the world’s lithium comes from Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Australia and China, but American resources being developed by new entrants into this market have set up the state of Nevada to become the key venue and proving ground for game-changing trade in this everyday mineral.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

This is approximately half of global production. Australia is the global leader in lithium production in 2021, with Chile (26,000 tonnes), China (14,000 tonnes), and Argentina (6,200 […].

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2022

America’s electric vehicle (EV) industry seems to have hit a rough patch of pavement in recent months. Chile and Bolivia appear to be heading down the same path, placing rigid restrictions on outside access to the countries’ lithium. By Brent Wilson, CEO of Galvanic Energy. In April, Mexico’s government nationalized.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2023

The EnergyX team of scientists and engineers have worked relentlessly for five years developing cutting-edge DLE technology to solve the immense bottlenecks that have limited global lithium production and supply chain. his single bottleneck (a massive lithium shortage) is the biggest challenge to scaling EV production.

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Teslarati

MAY 23, 2022

LG Energy Solutions’ global communications team informed Teslarati that Rainer Zietlow set a new Guinness World Record with a Volkswagen ID.4 In 2021, Zietlow won the title for the longest continuous journey with an electric vehicle in a single country. VW’s electric vehicles are powered by LG Energy Solution (LGES).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2016

They are fighting it out not only to be the first to capture the most electric vehicle market share and the best engineers, but they are getting down to the core of this arena, which is lithium—the key element that will make it all work. The Hunt for Lithium Is On. This means that the new market is all about new players.

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Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

The electric vehicle (EV) revolution has begun and the race is on to lock down the U.S. 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. domestic supply of lithium. Ford has announced its plan to lead the charge by investing $11.4

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

I would say that electricity is a vastly superior fuel for the light vehicle fleet,” said Willett Kempton , a professor and alternative energy specialist at the University of Delaware. Electrifying the entire vehicle fleet would provide more than three times the U.S.’s ’s power generation, he said.

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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. Bolivia was at the bottom of the rankings this year.

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