Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2022

Glencore and General Motors announced a multi-year sourcing agreement in which Glencore will supply GM with cobalt from its Murrin Murrin operation in Australia. GM and POSCO Chemical are building a new facility in Quebec, Canada, as part of their joint venture to produce CAM for GM’s Ultium batteries.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2022

Supply of nickel intermediate MHP from Indonesia for batteries is set to rise five-fold this year, according to Benchmark Minerals’ Nickel Forecast. Huayue Nickel Cobalt is a significant strategic project to build an integrated industrial chain of new-energy lithium battery materials. The laterite nickel hydrometallurgy project of PT.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2023

and Sumitomo Corporation announced an agreement to diversify and strengthen rare earth supplies in Japan. Further, the companies will collaborate on the supply of rare earth metals and other products. The effort to electrify and decarbonize the global economy is causing demand for rare earths to grow rapidly, outpacing new supply.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Developing lithium from the Salton Sea in California can help anchor a multi-billion dollar domestic electric vehicle battery supply chain and inject thousands of jobs and billions of dollars into California’s economically disadvantaged Imperial Valley, according to a new report from New Energy Nexus.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2019

Using its scientific expertise and collection of geological specimens, the Museum is collaborating with leading researchers to identify resource and environmental implications of the transition to green energy technologies including electric cars.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2021

Mitsui OSK Lines has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for a joint study to build a supply chain of renewable energy-derived ammonia (green ammonia) with Australian energy company Origin Energy. The MOL Group aims at net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050 in the “MOL Group Environmental Vision 2.1”.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Findings from the North American Electric Reliability Corporation’s (NERC’s) 2021 Long-Term Reliability Assessment (LTRA) indicate there is a high probability of insufficient resources and energy to serve electricity demand, as early as Summer 2022, in many parts of the Western Interconnection.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2022

Volkswagen Group (Volkswagen AG) and the Government of Canada signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to promote e-mobility in the country and to explore opportunities across Canada’s automotive and battery supply chain. A key focus of cooperation is the supply of critical raw materials such as lithium, nickel and cobalt.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2023

General Motors and Australia-based Element 25 Limited announced an agreement for Element 25 to supply up to 32,500 metric tons of manganese sulfate (MnSO 4 ) annually to support the annual production of more than 1 million GM EVs in North America. Butcherbird hosts a large manganese resource of more than 260 million tonnes.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Overcome supply chain delivery challenges including fuel sourcing, analyze energy security impacts on SMRs and advanced reactor supply chains, and understand how to resolve global disruptions to shipping, parts shortages, and transportation delays. How will geopolitical instability impact deployment timelines?

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2022

The challenge of meeting Net-Zero Emissions by 2050 “will be short-circuited and remain out of reach” unless significant new copper supply comes online in a timely way, according to a new study by S&P Global that examines the growing mismatch between available copper supply and future demand resulting from the energy transition.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2023

SK On will partner with Korea’s largest cathode material company EcoPro, and Chinese battery materials producer GEM to build a battery core material production facility in Saemangeum, South Korea. SK On has been actively building various cooperative relationships to strengthen the raw material supply chain.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

China dominates BloombergNEF’s (BNEF) lithium-ion battery supply chain ranking in 2020, having quickly surpassed Japan and Korea that were leaders for the majority of the previous decade. This has led to a boom in European cell plants, and the rest of the supply chain is also slowly making its way to Europe.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2022

Mercedes-Benz Group AG and the Government of Canada signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to promote cooperation and to explore ways to advance opportunities across Canada’s electric vehicle supply chain, including, but not limited to, securing sustainable sources of raw materials. Earlier post.).

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Canada Mercedes Supplies Batteries 170

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2022

billion will go to 11 projects in the materials separation and processing segment of the supply chain. Anovion , Scaling the Domestic, US Owned and Operated Anode Supply Chain for Synthetic Graphite, $117,000,000. It will produce enough material to supply more than 250,000 electric vehicles annually. Of that, $1.6

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Parts Batteries Battery Lithium Ion 459

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The company will use the investment to build its first operational, commercial-scale plant with the intention of expanding lithium refining capacity in the Western Hemisphere. Benchmark Mineral Intelligence forecasts a global supply gap of 4.3 All of these contribute to a more resilient and distributed supply chain.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2018

Dürr is building a paint shop in Mexico for the BMW Group that meets the requirements for connected Industry 4.0 San Luis Potosí will build the BMW brand’s best-selling model series, the BMW 3 Series Sedan. From the first full year of production, the plant will be the BMW Group’s most resource-efficient production location worldwide.

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BMW Mexico Industrial Industry 253

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Roskill reports that China-based cathode producer XTC New Energy Materials, a unit of Xiamen Tungsten, signed a supply agreement with Jingmen GEM, a subsidiary of GEM. Roskill noted that this is the second long-term precursor supply XTC New Energy Materials has secured this year.

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Supplies Lithium Ion China Manufacturer 186

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2022

NTT DATA Corporation and DENSO Corporation have started to build an industry-wide ecosystem for electric vehicle (EV) batteries to create a global trusted dataspaces where only necessary data can be shared, while also protecting private data.

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Industrial Industry Building Batteries 199

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Together with E.ON, Audi is building a solar energy park on the roofs of the two logistics centers of its plant in Gy?r This will create Europe’s largest photovoltaic system installed on a building at the Audi Hungaria plant in Gy?r. r covering about 160,000 square meters. The system will have a peak output of 12 megawatts.

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Audi Hungary Building Solar 359

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2021

General Motors and MP Materials ( earlier post ) have formed a strategic collaboration to develop a fully integrated US supply chain for rare earth magnets. This strategic collaboration seeks to accelerate the restoration of the US rare earth supply chain at commercial scale with high resiliency and environmental sustainability.

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GM Supplies North America Fort Worth 221

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2020

Together with start-up Circulor , Mercedes-Benz is conducting a pilot project for transparency on CO 2 emissions in the cobalt supply chain as part of STARTUP AUTOBAHN. In addition, the data network documents whether the Daimler sustainability standards are passed on throughout the entire supply chain. Blockchain in the supply chain.

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Mercedes Supplies Emissions CO2 337

Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2023

Tata Sons will build a 40GW battery cell gigafactory in the United Kingdom (UK). JLR and Tata Motors will be anchor customers, with supplies commencing from 2026. The investment of more than £4 billion (US$5.2 billion), will deliver electric mobility and renewable energy storage solutions for customers in UK and Europe.

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Building United Kingdom Energy Storage Renewable 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2021

A typical electric car requires six times the mineral inputs of a conventional car, and an onshore wind plant requires nine times more mineral resources than a similarly sized gas-fired power plant. By acting now and acting together, they can significantly reduce the risks of price volatility and supply disruptions. Source: IEA.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2022

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have found a way to build high-temperature superconducting magnets made of material that conducts electricity with little or no resistance at temperatures warmer than before. Resources. —Thomas Brown, a PPPL engineer and co-author.

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Fusion Building Wind Power 418

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

BASF will build a new battery materials production site in Schwarzheide, Germany, as part of its multi-step investment plan to support the European electric vehicle (EV) value chain. The Harjavalta plant will utilize renewable energy resources, including hydro, wind and biomass-based power.

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EV Adoption

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

In the transition to electrifying transportation, we need to be smart about how we allocate a limited supply of batteries and the minerals that go into them. and our supply chain and fast charging infrastructure is not only in place, but reliable. kWh battery used in the Hummer EV, GM could have produced: – 11.6 kWh battery).

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Baua Electric

MARCH 13, 2024

Copper and zinc miner Teck Resources is considering building a lithium-ion battery recycling facility in British Columbia, CEO Jonathan Price said on Tuesday. Representative image.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2021

the largest lithium-ion battery recycler in North America, will build its third commercial lithium-ion battery recycling facility, to be located in Gilbert, Arizona, within the Phoenix metropolitan area. Li-Cycle achieves an industry-leading recovery rate of up to 95% resource mass recovery. Li-Cycle Corp., Earlier post.).

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Li-ion Arizona Lithium Ion Building 186

Teslarati

JUNE 30, 2023

Stellantis signed a supply deal with battery metal supplier Kuniko for low-carbon nickel and cobalt sulfate. The deal will help Stellantis build a sustainable battery supply chain for electric vehicle (EV) production. The post Stellantis signs Nickel and Cobalt supply deal appeared first on TESLARATI.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2023

million to map critical-mineral resources in Alaska in partnership with the Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys. million through the USGS to advance scientific innovation and map critical minerals vital to the nation’s supply chains, national defense and economy. The US Geological Survey (USGS) will invest more than $5.8

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2021

General Motors has joined the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA), adding another element to company programs that support the sustainability and human rights of the EV supply chain. GM already requires suppliers to meet its standards and adhere to company values throughout the supply chain.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2018

—have been selected by the Ministry for Economy, Transport and Infrastructure (METI) to receive grants under METI’s FY2018 Sustainable open Innovation Initiative (SII) to help fund “A Demonstrator Project for A Virtual Power Plant Utilizing Consumer Energy Resources (V2G Aggregator Project)”.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

billion takeover of Liontown Resources, an Australian company, as it aims to beef up its supply of the metal for EV makers. This will include a scan of Liontown’s agreement to supply Ford and Tesla with lithium through 2030. takeover to beef up supply appeared first on TESLARATI.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2021

GM and Vacuumschmelze (VAC) of Germany announced plans for VAC to build a plant in the US that will manufacture permanent magnets for the electric motors used in the GMC HUMMER EV, Cadillac LYRIQ, Chevrolet Silverado EV and more than a dozen other models using GM’s Ultium Platform. Earlier post.). Magnets are at the heart of an EV motor.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2020

EIT InnoEnergy, the European innovation engine for sustainable energy, announced a partnership with Vulcan Energy Resources Limited (Vulcan), a start-up lithium exploration company, to produce the world’s first completely carbon-neutral lithium in Germany. The region contains Europe’s largest lithium resource and one of the largest worldwide.

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 1, 2023

Q&A with Jon Jacobs of Westwater Resources Everyone in the EV industry is talking about the IRA and the BIL, two sets of federal regulations that include strong incentives for automakers to establish domestic supply chains for EV raw materials and components. Charged : Graphite’s a hot property these days.

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