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LKAB identifies Europe’s largest deposit of rare earth metals in Lapland; Per Geijer

Green Car Congress

This is good news, not only for LKAB, the region and the Swedish people, but also for Europe and the climate. This would be sufficient to meet a large part of the EU’s future demand for manufacturing the permanent magnets that are needed for electric motors in, among other things, electric vehicles and windpower turbines.

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Mercedes breaks ground on new battery recycling facility in Germany

Teslarati

German regulators were quick to point out that the new facility will also be a vital part of the country’s efforts to limit dependence on rare earth imports, which were particularly affected on the European continent due to the COVID pandemic, COVID restrictions in China, and the Rissian invasion of Ukraine.

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Interview: Arnd Franz, Chairman and CEO, Mahle Group | Autocar Professional

Baua Electric

We have a strong engineering base and have just opened a new centre in Coimbatore for electrification and electrical motor manufacturing, testing and validation. We saw similar developments in China a few years ago. Do you see India as a strong alternative base to China? We’ve been here since 1958.

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Manganese Could Be the Secret Behind Truly Mass-Market EVs

Cars That Think

VW is already building EV factories in Tennessee and China. Even that piddling storage and range rapidly degraded, especially in the southwestern United States and other searing climates, leaving customers howling. (It Global nickel stockpiles were already dwindling before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February.

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

Cars That Think

70 percent of lithium-ion batteries are produced in China, which derived 64 percent of its electricity from coal in 2020. China, using largely coal-based electricity, had 6 million EVs in 2021, constituting the largest total stock of EVs in the world. But coal use varies, even within China.