Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

General Motors has invested in Element25 ( earlier post ), which is building a manganese refinery in Louisiana, and this month also backed Mitra Chem, a Silicon Valley company which is developing lithium manganese iron phosphate (LMFP) cathodes ( earlier post ). —Jess Roberts, Benchmark’s Head of Forecasting

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2022

billion will go to 11 projects in the materials separation and processing segment of the supply chain. Anovion , Scaling the Domestic, US Owned and Operated Anode Supply Chain for Synthetic Graphite, $117,000,000. It will produce enough material to supply more than 250,000 electric vehicles annually. Of that, $1.6

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2009

A team of NOAA-supported scientists from the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, Louisiana State University, and the University of Michigan is forecasting that the “dead zone” off the coast of Louisiana and Texas in the Gulf of Mexico this summer could be one of the largest on record.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Tesla will be purchasing most of the battery-ready graphite that would be produced at a planned facility in Louisiana. As noted in a Bloomberg report, Melbourne-based Syrah Resources Ltd would be supplying Tesla with graphite anode material for an initial period of four years.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2022

Ford expects a compound annual growth rate for EVs to exceed 90% through 2026, more than double forecasted global industry growth. Ford and CATL—the world’s largest battery producer—have signed a separate non-binding MOU to explore a cooperation for supplying batteries in Ford’s markets across China, Europe and North America.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2018

The tight supply/demand situation for graphite electrodes is expected to persist for much longer than many market observers expect. Roskill forecasts that global sales of EVs and hybrid vehicles will increase rapidly in the coming years and could account for 69% of all motor vehicle sales by 2027.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2009

This year’s Gulf of Mexico dead zone is smaller than forecasted, measuring 3,000 square miles. Earlier this summer, forecast models developed by Dr. Earlier this summer, forecast models developed by Dr. R. Deadzone on July 27, 2009. Credit: LUMCON. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.) billion annually.

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