Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2022

General Motors announced two major Li-ion battery supply chain agreements, one with LG Chem for cathode active material (CAM), and one with Livent for the supply of battery-grade lithium hydroxide.

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Li-ion GM Supplies Nickel Lithium 199

Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2018

There is now a significant wave of interest in battery raw material supply security, mainly from Asia, to underpin the growth of Li-ion battery production over the next decade. Cobalt and nickel will be fed into the nickel-based Li-ion battery operations in Korea and the upcoming Hungarian plant.

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Li-ion 2018 Batteries Battery 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2018

A consortium led by South Korea’s POSCO and Samsung SDI, and including China’s Sichuan Fulin Industrial Group and Chile’s Molyment, has won a bid to build a cathode materials plant in Chile to support that country’s Li-ion batteries project.

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Chile Li-ion Building South America 186

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2019

KeraCel is bringing to market an advanced solid-state battery design and manufacturing method that will allow production of cells with ceramic-based electrolytes and lithium metal anodes to achieve energy densities 2-3 times greater, or at a cost of less than 50% when compared to Li-ion cells today for the same energy level.

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Companies Batteries Battery Li-ion 230

Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2013

The BYD electric bus, powered by two in-wheel electric motors capable of a cruising speed of more than 88 km/h (55 mph) and a Li-ion battery pack has a range of more than 250 km (155 miles)—nearly 24 hours of service daily for most transit applications. Buquebus and CTS Auto S.A.,

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Uruguay BYD 2015 Li-ion 326

Teslarati

JUNE 7, 2023

In 2020, reports of large lithium deposits in Mongolia started to spread, making the country a frontier of Li exploration and extraction. However, Tesla’s main concern with lithium lies in the refining process, not the supply. In February 2023, China Mining Resources Group Co.,

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Mongolia Li-ion Tesla South America 71

Plug In India

MARCH 15, 2023

Using low-carbon fuels or biofuels as the source of heat energy to process lithium and manufacture li-ion batteries would cut carbon emissions by half as per world banks study. [4] 9,10,11,12] LFP (Lithium Iron Phosphate) and Sodium-Ion battery packs will not use Cobalt and Nickel. Graphite and Silicon are used in the Anode.

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Chile Petrol Li-ion India 59