Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2011

KORES ) and steelmaker POSCO has entered an agreement with Bolivia’s state-run miner Comibol (Corporación Minera de Bolivia) to set up a joint venture to produce lithium intended for lithium-ion batteries. KORES said that Korean Li-ion manufacturers SK Innovation and LG Chem are also likely to participate in the project.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2022

China dominates the global Li-ion battery supply chain to the extent that removing the country in favor of European or North American alternatives will be difficult, according to analysis by Benchmark Minerals Intelligence. —Albert Li, an analyst at Benchmark.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2021

An editorial in the journal Nature calls on policy makers, industry leaders and researchers to mitigate quickly the environmental and human costs of Li-ion batteries. The market for Li-ion batteries is projected to grow from $30 billion in 2017 to some $100 billion in 2025. — Nature editorial.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2021

for the supply of spodumene concentrate (SC6) from the Manono Lithium and Tin Project in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Under the offtake agreement, Yibin Tianyi will purchase up to 200,000t per annum of SC6 for an initial 3-year term following commencement of production with an option to extend for an additional two years.

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 16, 2022

Range has increased, access to charging infrastructure has expanded, and major automakers have (finally) begun to actively market their EVs and to prepare for a new era of mass production. Newly charged automakers are finding themselves to be production-constrained , as EV trendsetter Tesla has been for some years.

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Drive Electric

AUGUST 9, 2022

This is the sum of the emissions from raw materials, production, shipping, operation and end-of-life disposal – not just how clean it is to operate. Battery production is known to be the most energy-intensive part of the manufacturing process of an EV. In 2021, Global EV purchases jumped to 6.6

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Drive Electric

AUGUST 9, 2022

That’s why when measuring the efficiency of a vehicle, it’s become common to measure the processes involved in the entire ‘life cycle’ of a vehicle – what’s referred to as ‘cradle to grave’, or the sum of the emissions from raw materials, production, shipping, operation, and recycling – not just how clean it is to drive.

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