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Cornell study examines trade-off between critical metals requirement and transportation decarbonization

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Recycling w/o 2nd” indicates retired batteries that are directly recycled without a second life as energy storage systems (ESSs). —Fengqi You, senior author Currently, critical metals and minerals are centralized in politically unstable Chile, Congo, Indonesia, Brazil, Argentina and South Africa, according to the World Bank.

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South Africa’s Rubicon Group Wants to Help Drive The Transition To The Green Economy

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South Africa’s Rubicon Group enables transformative sustainable and industrial technologies across the energy and manufacturing sectors in Africa and other emerging markets.

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BNEF: producing battery materials in the DRC could lower supply-chain emissions and add value to the country’s cobalt

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Africa has a wealth of critical battery raw materials and is in a position to use these to attract more value-add in downstream processing and manufacturing. —James Frith, head of energy storage at BNEF. We are only at the beginning of the path to achieving net-zero emissions globally. Adesina.

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

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We then used results from a model of the global economy to allocate a portion of this global budget specifically to the U.S. fleet of light vehicles. Just two countries—Chile and Australia—account for over two-thirds of global lithium reserves, and South Africa, Brazil, Ukraine, and Australia have almost all the manganese reserves.