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BYD wins Chile lithium extraction contract

Green Car Congress

Chile’s Ministry of Mining awarded China-based BYD a contract to extract up to 80,000 tons of metallic lithium. The other lithium extraction contract, also for 80,000 tons, went to Chile-based Servicios y Operaciones Mineras del Norte SA, for an offer of US$60 million. million tons, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS).

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The World’s Largest Camera Is Nearly Complete

Cars That Think

The world’s largest camera sits within a nondescript industrial building in the hills above San Francisco Bay. Rubin Observatory in Chile. In May 2023, if all goes according to plan, the camera will finally fly to its destination, itself currently under construction in the desert highlands of northern Chile.

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15 countries agree to work toward 100% ZEV truck and bus sales by 2040

Green Car Congress

Under the new Global Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for Zero-Emission Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles (ZE-MHDVs), Austria, Canada, Chile, Denmark, Finland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Scotland, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, Uruguay and Wales are setting an interim goal of 30% zero-emission new vehicle sales by 2030.

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This driverless tractor will haunt your dreams of the robot uprising

Baua Electric

For those of you that have (the normals), allow me to introduce a thing you didn’t even know you needed to worry about: meet the Elise Clean Building Logistics. It’s a solution that is widely used in mining in Chile.” CBL,” for short. It makes sense to buy a set of two.

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Debunking the Lithium "Mining" FUD

Plug In India

Mining any mineral from earth has an impact on the environment. Considering a use case with the following supply chain, The total emissions for lithium extraction in Chile, which then stays in Chile for lithium processing and proceeds to Korea for cell manufacturing and vehicle assembly will be 1.5 No EV owner denies this.

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Global Fuel Economy Initiative launches second 3-year campaign; ICCT joins partnership

Green Car Congress

GFEI was launched in 2009 as a partnership of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), the International Energy Agency (IEA), the International Transport Forum (ITF) and FIA Foundation. To consider the role of heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) and electric vehicles and build them into the targets. To add to the GFEI’s Working Paper Series.

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Climate impact of lithium-ion batteries & how to measure it 

Electric Vehicles India

The Transport & Environment study has discussed the potential ways of measuring, comparing and limit GHG emissions from batteries, as well as proposing tools. In simple words, the emissions are moved from one pipe to another which will need new regulations. We will be looking at some of them in this article.