CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Electric vehicle sales are surging globally. Electric car models can now be bought for as little as US$10,000 and drive at least 300km, and […] The sales have overshot 5%, considered to be the start of the mass market, in over 20 countries across the world. In places like India they are fast approaching that benchmark.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 23, 2022

” If you missed part 1 of this series, see: South American Plugin Vehicle Markets, A Brief Overview — Part 1: Argentina, Peru, & Ecuador. Chile […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Here at CleanTechnica, we’ve been reporting on the Latin American EV markets for a while now, and though the presence of electric vehicles in the region is still small, it has been growing steadily, in some places already reaching what José Pontes calls “the disruption zone.”

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

This in turn will result in increased consumption of lithium and support investment in mine expansions across Chile and Australia and new mine development in Chile, Australia, Argentina and Canada. to reach 380,000, 107,000, 100,000, and 99,000 vehicles, respectively, in 2022. million by 2022.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2018

A consortium led by South Korea’s POSCO and Samsung SDI, and including China’s Sichuan Fulin Industrial Group and Chile’s Molyment, has won a bid to build a cathode materials plant in Chile to support that country’s Li-ion batteries project. POSCO has also acquired a 4.75% stake in the mining company.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2023

The study— Inflation Reduction Act: Impact on North America Metals and Minerals Market —utilizes a detailed bottom-up, technology-by-technology approach to project demand for the four metals from major energy transition applications, including power generation, transmission and distribution and end-markets, such as electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2023

Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile S.A. As electric vehicle sales continue to grow, we now expect the lithium demand to reach almost 1.5 In Chile, we have reached a run-rate of 180,000 metric tons of high-quality lithium products while working to further expand our lithium carbonate and lithium hydroxide capacity.

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Electric Vehicles India

AUGUST 10, 2021

Top electric vehicles battery manufacturers in India. Before we jump into the list of top EV battery manufacturers in India, let us discuss some things about electric vehicles batteries. Firstly the batteries are one of the important components of electric vehicles in India. million metric turns.

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Electrek

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Three men from Switzerland have formed the Peak Evolution Team with the goal of conquering the summit of Ojos del Salado in Chile – the world’s highest active volcano – in a solar electric truck, with the help of Austrian logistics company Gebrüder Weiss.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

plans to invest $140 million in a new lithium carbonate production plant in Chile. Under the new investment program, Rockwood will build a 20,000 metric ton lithium carbonate plant at the sight at LeNegra, near the port of Antofagasta in northern Chile. Rockwood Holdings, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2023

A team from Cornell, with a colleague from Paul Scherrer Institute, has analyzed the trade-off between the decarbonization potential of the road transportation sector and its critical metal requirement from the demand-side perspective in 48 major countries committing to decarbonize their road transportation sectors aided by electric vehicles (EVs).

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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.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

The buses will be manufactured entirely by BYD and operate in the Integrated Public Transportation System – SITP, with the towns of Usme and Fontibón to be the first to enjoy the electric bus technology. Globally, BYD buses, taxis and other electric vehicles are present in more than 300 cities, 50 countries and regions.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

million electric vehicles (EVs). The deal with SQM is expected to boost SK On’s efforts to meet the IRA requirements as Chile is a free trade agreement (FTA) partner with the US. Established in 1968 and listed in the Santiago and New York stock exchanges, SQM is the only lithium hydroxide producer in Chile.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2021

Chile has long been a leading producer of lithium, which has become an essential element for the rechargeable battery market, among other uses. Evaporation ponds at SQM’s lithium mining site in the Salar de Atacama, in Chile. Image by SQM.). Often electrification is for the purpose of pursuing environmental sustainability.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 6, 2023

Following up on our Latin American EV Market series, we continue now with countries that are further ahead of the “Laggards” but can’t be considered leaders. If you haven’t read it yet, you can find the previous article here: Latin America EV Market Share Part 1. In this article, we’ll finally see countries surpassing the […]

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2018

per annum, global output is expected to triple between 2018 and 2022 to reach 154kt (metal content), as 86kt of new metal capacity comes on stream to meet the increasing demand for the metal for use in batteries in electric vehicles and smartphones. million tons; Bolivia, 9 million tons; Chile, 8.4

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 14, 2024

The protest underscored a serious challenge to a plan by Chile, the No. 2 lithium producer, to impose more state control over the metal needed for batteries used to power the world’s growing electric vehicle fleet. The protest underscored a serious challenge to a plan by Chile, the No.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 2, 2023

Brine operations, mostly in Chile and Argentina, generate about 75% of worldwide production. Demand for US-produced lithium is particularly strong due to tax incentives that reward consumers for buying electric vehicles with domestically produced and assembled parts.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Australia is the global leader in lithium production in 2021, with Chile (26,000 tonnes), China (14,000 tonnes), and Argentina (6,200 […]. In good news for the Australian mining industry, miners produced 55,000 tonnes of lithium in 2021, a 28% increase from the 39,700 tonnes of lithium produced in 2020.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The project is located approximately 80 km west northwest of the Calingasta town and 6 km east of Argentina’s border with Chile, at 3,500 m elevation in the Andes Mountains. In Brazil, it is targeting approximately 20% low emission vehicle (LEV) sales mix by the end of the decade.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

To secure lithium for making EV battery cells, SK On recently signed purchase contracts with resource development companies in countries that have signed FTAs with the US including Australia and Chile, taking quick steps to meet US “Inflation Reduction Act” (IRA) requirements. million full electric vehicles annually by 2030.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

According to the scenarios developed in this study , a high penetration of electric vehicles worldwide (up to 75% of the stock of vehicles in 2050) would not entail a geological supply risk, as reserves are sufficient in the long run. Source: USGS, 2017).

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Chile’s SQM , the world’s second-largest lithium producer, on Wednesday posted an 82% fall in its fourth-quarter net profit from a year earlier, below forecasts as prices for the key battery metal continued to slide from earlier peaks. Revenue for the period fell 58% to USD 1.31 billion, also lagging LSEG’s USD 1.35

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Baua Electric

MARCH 22, 2024

Chile’s SQM on Thursday told shareholders it pushed back a deadline for a lithium deal with state-run copper producer Codelco due to the “complexity of the negotiation,” including ongoing audits. The companies were set to announce final terms by March 31, but on Wednesday extended that deadline to the end of May.

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Blink Charging

APRIL 6, 2023

Perhaps nothing illustrates the rise of electric vehicles over the past decade more than this statistic: In 2012, the total number of electric vehicles (EVs) sold in the entire world was 120,000. Who is leading the way with electric vehicle adoption? What are the challenges to electric vehicle adoption?

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The United States imports many of the minerals used in EV batteries, such as cobalt, graphite, lithium, manganese, and nickel, with lithium being the predominant mineral. Although use of these minerals is not restricted to battery production for EVs, they are nonetheless important for meeting the increasing demand for EV production.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 27, 2023

When we think of where lithium comes from, we think of South America (Chile specifically), Australia, and the US a bit — with processing in China, of course. We don’t think of Africa. However, Africa has resources, and the expectation is that the continent will be a much bigger source of lithium by 2030. Lithium […]

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Baua Electric

MARCH 15, 2024

In a world where electric vehicles and utility-scale batteries are taking over, it would be nice to not depend on a geopolitical rival for your most important raw material. the Charlotte, North Carolina-based miner whose processing plant Yellen visited during her trip to Chile. Take Albemarle Corp., Pilbara Minerals Ltd.,

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Inspired by electric circuits, it’s the same shade of yellow as on the seat trim and stitches. 100% electric. Nissan also staged the Latin American premiere of two 100% electric vehicles: the new Nissan LEAF and Nissan’s Formula E race car. Argentina will join the program in 2019.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2023

US consumers are embracing electric vehicles (EVs), with more than half of the nation’s car sales predicted to be electric by 2030. The authors examined four cases of lithium mining: Argentina, Chile, the United States, and Portugal. Riofrancos et al.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Didi Chuxing (DiDi), the world’s leading mobile transportation platform, will launch Latin America’s first shared electric vehicle (EV) fleet through its app in Mexico, as the company further invests in sustainable transportation innovations in the region.

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Teslarati

MARCH 24, 2023

” The protesters also noted that instead of electric vehicles like Teslas, the region should focus on free public transport. in der Atacama-Wüste in #Chile zerstört die Lebensgrundlage für die Menschen in den Fördergebieten. . ” and that “Car production and factory expansion at Berlin must stop!”

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2021

The analysis will also help address an overarching question in the global trend toward the electrification of transportation with battery electric vehicles, said Michael Wang, director of the Systems Assessment Center at Argonne and a study co-author. —Veronica Gautier, SQM’s head of innovation. 2021.105762.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 24, 2022

World demand for lithium—driven by demand for electric vehicle batteries—is estimated to increase from 592,000 tonnes of lithium carbonate equivalent (LCE) in 2021 to 745,000 tonnes in 2022. This rapid growth is forecast to be met by gains in output by Australia, Chile and Argentina. billion in 2021–22 to $16.1

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2021

The eFuel will be sourced from the Haru Oni pilot plant based in Chile that generates hydrogen, which is then combined with captured carbon dioxide drawn from the atmosphere to produce methanol. As the fuel’s primary user, Porsche will use the eFuels from Chile among others in the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup starting in the season of 2022.

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Teslarati

MARCH 23, 2023

Tesla is poised to benefit from rapidly dropping lithium prices, particularly in China, where the automaker produces nearly half of its vehicles. No element has become more synonymous with electric vehicles than lithium. None of the modern batteries that make electric vehicles possible could exist without lithium.

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