Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2023

A major benefit of FLEX plants is their smaller size, requiring lower daily feedstock than the competition; smaller plants are thus less susceptible to supply-chain interruptions. Shorter distances between the feedstock supply and the plant also reduce transportation costs.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2020

The Nevis Geothermal Project will enable the island to transition to 100% zero-emission renewable energy for its power supply. GeoFrame Energy has additional opportunities to expand production in the Eastern Caribbean and in North and South America.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

The first project, Katingan Mentaya , a forest protection project on the Indonesian island of Borneo, compensates for the currently still unavoidable CO 2 emissions from the supply chain, production and delivery of the new Volkswagen e-vehicle ID.3, 3, as well as emissions from other areas. Furthermore, the IPCC 1.5-degree

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2022

GM and Honda will share our best technology, design and manufacturing strategies to deliver affordable and desirable EVs on a global scale, including our key markets in North America, South America and China. —Doug Parks, GM executive vice president, Global Product Development, Purchasing and Supply Chain.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2010

Toyota Tsusho’s interest in the project stems from the desire to increase its exposure to reliable and diversified lithium supplies as global demand for lithium batteries in the automotive sector continues to grow. million tonnes of lithium carbonate. Exploration sampling at Salar de Olaroz. Source: Orocobre. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2018

Roskill Information Services forecasts that the lithium industry will need to add nearly 100kt of new lithium carbonate equivalent (LCE) production per year by 2027 to keep up with demand driven by the global transition to electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2018

Roskill Information Services forecasts that the lithium industry will need to add nearly 100kt of new lithium carbonate equivalent (LCE) production per year by 2027 to keep up with demand driven by the global transition to electric vehicles.

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Teslarati

APRIL 5, 2022

“GM and Honda will share our best technology, design, and manufacturing strategies to deliver affordable and desirable EVs on a global scale, including our key markets in North America, South America, and China,” Mary Barra, GM’s CEO and Chair said in a statement.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 27, 2022

After the war, construction of large dams moved to the Soviet Union, Africa, South America (Brazil’s Itaipu, at its completion in 1984 the world’s largest dam, with 14 gigawatts capacity), and Asia, where it culminated in China’s unprecedented effort. GW (the largest in the world); Xiluodu, 13.86 GW; and Wudongde, 10.2

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Plug In India

MARCH 15, 2023

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 tons of GHG (greenhouse gasses) per electric car [3]. 4] An electric car emits about 3,000 pounds or 1.36

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2009

Bishop and Wood with a recent version of the Carbon Explorer float. Their study reveals that most of the carbon from lush plankton blooms never reaches the deep ocean. Just adding iron to the ocean hasn’t been demonstrated as a good plan for storing atmospheric carbon. Click to enlarge. —Jim Bishop.

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APRIL 13, 2011

A trio of European countries and one from South America made major strides in reducing their levels of sulfur content in gasoline, allowing them to advance in the annual global ranking published by Hart Energy’s International Fuel Quality Center (IFQC). Maximum gasoline sulfur limits. Click to enlarge.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Shipping emissions form a significant part of the commodity supply chain’s carbon footprint, particularly for those commodities reliant on the mass transport of low-grade ores and concentrates. Roskill has analyzed the trend in carbon intensity of shipping using spodumene concentrate as an example. Regulatory background.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2010

million tons US) of carbon dioxide emissions. SABIC Innovative Plastics assisted Mitsubishi by sharing its expertise in CAE-based parts performance prediction and molding support, as well as supplying the high-performance Noryl GTX resin. million metric tons (1.43 The material also provides greater design freedom than metal.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Since the launch of France’s low-carbon vehicle project in January 2009, La Poste group, which has the country’s largest industrial fleet with some 69,000 vehicles, has equipped itself with a complete range of electric vehicles, including small light commercial vehicles, quads, three-wheelers and electrically assisted bicycles.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2010

Based on the latest available US Government Accountability Office data (2008) the US government spent $4 billion in subsidies to replace about 2% of the US gasoline supply. It will be difficult and expensive to reach congressionally mandated levels for renewable fuels if corn-based ethanol is the main product for achieving such targets.

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OCTOBER 11, 2010

The soils in large areas of the Southern Hemisphere, including major portions of Australia, Africa and South America, have been drying up in the past decade, according to the first major study of evapotranspiration on a global basis. A recent decline in the global land evapotranspiration trend due to limited moisture supply.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Ocean acidification caused by the absorption of carbon dioxide in seawater is already increasing along the California coast decades earlier than existing models predict. The growth in carbon dioxide emissions from energy and industry has exceeded even the most fossil-fuel intensive scenario developed by the IPCC at the end of the 1990s.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2012

to 9.3%) from a 2010 baseline, depending upon the supply scenario. It does not include energy used in the production and transport of biofuels; energy used in the production and supply of purchased blendstocks; electricity used in non-process or off-site activities (such as oil movements, product blending, lighting, etc.),

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2011

However, for illustrative purposes, the DOS commissioned study estimated that incremental lifecycle US greenhouse gas emissions from displacing reference crude oils with Canadian oil sands crude oils imported through the proposed Project would be between 3 and 21 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions annually. —FEIS.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2016

Driven by the rise of battery gigafactories and game-changing Powerwall and energy storage businesses, the world now finds itself at the beginning of a lithium super cycle that is all about securing new supply, much of which is poised to come from lithium superstar Argentina. Remember—this is one man, one company.

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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. —Allan Ray Restauro, metals and mining analyst at BNEF and lead author.

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