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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. That will see an uptake of more hybrid-, plug-in hybrids and BEVs in the EU.

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JULY 13, 2012

African Cats launched the first GreenCat 605 catamaran designed by Simonis-Voogd in Durban South Africa. The Green-Motion system is powered with 12 Lithium Ion batteries, 50 kW power (giving her a 40 NM motoring range without using a DC generator). Click to enlarge.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2010

South Africa vehicle maker Optimal Energy will exhibit a functional prototype of its Joule full battery-electric multi-purpose urban passenger vehicle ( earlier post ) at the upcoming Geneva Motor Show. Joule will be completely highway capable with a top speed limited to 135 km/h (84 mph).

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APRIL 4, 2009

Optimal Energy , the Cape Town, South Africa-based company that unveiled the Joule full battery-electric multi-purpose urban passenger vehicle to the world at the Paris Motor Show in 2008 ( earlier post ), plans to have pilot fleets on the road in South Africa and globally from 2010 onwards, with mass production to start in South Africa from 2012.

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APRIL 6, 2023

Supply chain issues and delivery delays also disrupt EV sales in some regions, making it harder for consumers to take receive their new EVs. In addition, there have been worldwide supply chain issues for battery materials, as Russia supplies 20% of the world’s high purity nickel. What about the rest of the world?

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NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) can leverage its abundant cobalt resources and hydroelectric power to become a low-cost and low-emissions producer of lithium-ion battery cathode precursor materials, according to a new study on a unified African supply chain by BloombergNEF (BNEF).

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NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Lithium-ion battery recycling took a big step forward this week, as a Hawaiian utility announced it is undertaking one of the biggest examples of grid-storage recycling in North America to date. However, its compliment of lithium-ion batteries is one of the largest to be recycled thus far.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2022

China continues to dominate BloombergNEF’s (BNEF) global lithium-ion battery supply chain ranking, for the third time in a row, for both 2022 and its projection for 2027, due to continued support for the electric vehicle demand and raw materials investments.

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AUGUST 20, 2022

70 percent of lithium-ion batteries are produced in China, which derived 64 percent of its electricity from coal in 2020. The manufacture of lithium batteries for EVs, like those shown here, is energy intensive, as is the mining and refining of the raw materials. Sebastian Meyer/Corbis/Getty Images.

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