Green Car Congress
APRIL 17, 2023
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.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 1, 2019
A study by a team of researchers from Germany and South Africa forsees the gradual replacement of lead-acid SLI (starter, lighting and ignition) batteries with Li-ion batteries over the next couple of years. —Ferg et al. Schuldt, J. 2019.03.063.
CleanTechnica EVs
JUNE 22, 2021
South Africa’s Rubicon Group enables transformative sustainable and industrial technologies across the energy and manufacturing sectors in Africa and other emerging markets.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 29, 2021
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. The DRC produces about 70% of global cobalt but captures just 3% of the battery and electric vehicle value chain.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 7, 2019
I fully anticipate we’re going to keep a lot of pressure on that cobalt production,” Ted Miller, head of energy storage strategy and research at Ford, said at a mining event in South Africa. Today it looks feasible but it’s a scenario we’re going to have to watch.”.
Cars That Think
AUGUST 20, 2022
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. Next, we turned to our model of the U.S But neither option totally removes supply-chain or socio-environmental concerns.
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