Green Car Congress
APRIL 4, 2011
Elsewhere in West Africa, Angola, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo and Cameroon collectively waste about 10 billion cubic meters of natural gas every year. Expand access to financing. Successful capture and flare gas utilization could potentially triple per capita electricity consumption for this nation of 155 million people.
Teslarati
OCTOBER 7, 2021
Musk laughs a bit, adding that building factories is pretty hard. In Tesla land, it takes longer to build the factory than to reach high volume production,” Musk said. The CEO also adds that Tesla’s finances should be even better, especially as FSD matures. “The ‘Model 2’ is not a car,” Elon said. Credit: Tesla/YouTube.
Green Car Congress
JULY 4, 2020
For example, two-thirds of all cobalt production happens in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). In the DRC, this would mean building processing plants and refineries that would add value and, potentially, jobs within the country.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 29, 2018
As part of a cross-industry initiative, the BMW Group, BASF SE, Samsung SDI and Samsung Electronics have launched a joint cobalt pilot project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This fully privately financed project seeks to pilot an approach to address challenges in artisanal mining.
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.
Baua Electric
JANUARY 10, 2024
The low prices are making it harder for mine builders to raise money from more traditional sources as well, at a time when the industry is also grappling with rampant inflation driving up the cost to build new projects. Building new mines takes years and sometimes decades, and stalled projects can often be hard to restart.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 16, 2019
For this pilot based on a simulated sourcing scenario, Cobalt produced at Huayou’s industrial mine site in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will be traced through the supply chain as it travels from mine and smelter to LG Chem’s cathode plant and battery plant in South Korea, and finally into a Ford plant in the United States.
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