Green Car Congress
JANUARY 16, 2023
Bolivia President Luis Arce said that the national government has a strategy to promote the cultivation of jatropha, a plant from which the oil is extracted to serve as a raw material for biodiesel production. A second biodiesel plant of 1,500 bpd and a renewable diesel plant of 9,000 bpd are also planned. —President Arce.
Green Car Congress
MAY 24, 2018
Salar de Uyuni in the Andes in southwestern Bolivia is the world’s largest salt flat (10,582 km 2 / 4,086 mi 2 ) and holds the. Despite this, and other early work, the lithium desposit in Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia is currently largely untouched. the raw material to the finished product, in which Bolivia has a majority.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 21, 2022
Bolivia is lithium-rich; the USGS estimates identified lithium reserves in the country to be 21 million tons—ahead of Argentina and Chile, the other members of the “lithium triangle”. However, Bolivia is production-poor; Chile and Argentina are top global producers, but Bolivia has yet to produce the mineral in commercial quantities.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 11, 2018
machinery to establish a value-added chain in Bolivia in the mid-term, from. socially-compatible implementation, for example by using renewable energy. and 1,000 direct jobs and up to 10,000 indirect jobs in Bolivia in areas. The consortium around ACISA offers state-of-the-art technology, plants and. Apart from the.
Baua Electric
JANUARY 16, 2024
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.
CleanTechnica EVs
MAY 14, 2022
However, many green technologies, such as electric vehicles and renewable power plants, depend on lithium-ion batteries, which require lithium. To mitigate the worst impacts of climate change, we must transition away from fossil fuels like petroleum and coal and toward clean energy generation and zero-emission transportation options.
Green Car Congress
MAY 23, 2022
Chile and Bolivia appear to be heading down the same path, placing rigid restrictions on outside access to the countries’ lithium. Mexico is also pushing for a coalition with Bolivia, Chile and Argentina to create a lithium version of OPEC, which would control more than half of the world’s lithium resources.
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