Remove Global Remove Information Remove Parts Remove Serbia
article thumbnail

Rio Tinto achieves battery-grade lithium production at Boron plant

Green Car Congress

Mining at Boron began in 1927 and today, the mine—home to one of the richest deposits of borates in the world—produces one million tonnes of refined borates every year, or approximately 30% of global demand. The demonstration plant has a design capacity of 10 tonnes per year of battery-grade lithium.

article thumbnail

T&E: two-thirds of European battery production at risk as companies weigh investing in US instead

Green Car Congress

T&E used publicly available information to assess the 50 gigafactories announced in Europe based on their finance and permits, whether they had secured a location, and the companies’ links to the US. Europe’s global share of new investment in Li-ion battery production dropped from 41% in 2021 to a meagre 2% in 2022, according to BloombergNEF.

Companies 430
article thumbnail

Korean consortium forming JV with Bolivian miner Comibol for lithium production in Salar de Uyuni

Green Car Congress

The joint venture will also pave the way for Asia’s fourth-largest economy to take part in a project to develop lithium carbonate in the region, officials said. million tons of identified lithium resources, respectively, while Brazil, Congo, and Serbia each contain approximately 1 million tons. million tons, respectively.

Bolivia 199
article thumbnail

UN: world population is expected to reach 9.7 billion in 2050 and could peak at nearly 11 billion around 2100

Green Car Congress

The resulting changes in the size, composition and distribution of the world’s population have important consequences for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the globally agreed targets for improving economic prosperity and social well-being while protecting the environment. The global fertility rate, which fell from 3.2

Asia 220
article thumbnail

U.S. vs. China Rivalry Boosts Tech—and Tensions

Cars That Think

A year later, with much less fanfare, Tsinghua University ’s Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence released an even larger model, Wu Dao 2.0 , with 10 times as many parameters—the neural network values that encode information. B-2 Stealth Bomber dropped bombs on the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, Serbia, killing three people.

China 141