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BMW Group to source lithium from Livent

Green Car Congress

—Dr Andreas Wendt, member of the Board of Management of BMW AG responsible for Purchasing and Supplier Network. The salt lakes in the border region between Argentina, Bolivia and Chile are home to roughly half the world’s lithium reserves. This largely preserves the balance between the brine layers and groundwater layers.

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

Cars That Think

The total cost of purchasing and driving one—the cost of ownership—has fallen nearly to parity with a typical gasoline-fueled car. That would require a dramatic increase in EV sales: In the United States in 2021, just over 1 million vehicles—less than 1 percent of those on the road—were fully electric.