Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2011

A newly released GE study — Flare Gas Reduction: Recent Global Trends and Policy Considerations —estimates that 5% of the world’s natural gas production is wasted by burning or “flaring” unused gas each year, despite some progress on the flaring issue. It will help slow global warming while also saving scarce natural resources.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2011

million tons of identified lithium resources, respectively, while Brazil, Congo, and Serbia each contain approximately 1 million tons. Prices reached $4,752 per ton as of 28 July, up $200 compared with last month and almost 100% from 2003, government data show. million tons, respectively. China and Argentina total 5.4

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Roughly 60% of mined cobalt is sourced from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The element is often recovered as a byproduct from mining copper and nickel, meaning that demand and pricing for those other metals affects the availability of cobalt. The paper is published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Reeling from a crushing shortage of semiconductor chips for vehicles, carmakers also face another looming crisis: producing enough batteries to drive the global pivot towards electric vehicles. The Democratic Republic of Congo produces 70 percent of the world's cobalt, and most of the world's nickel sits under Indonesian rainforests.

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