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BMW Group sources sustainable cobalt worth around €100M from Morocco for fifth-gen batteries

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Recently the BMW Group signed a cobalt supply contract with Moroccan mining company Managem Group ; the contract has a volume of around €100 million, said Andreas Wendt, member of the Board of Management of BMW AG responsible for Purchasing and Supplier Network. Managem is one of the world’s 5 largest producers of high-purity cobalt cathodes.

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ZF signs multi-year supply agreement with STMicroelectronics for silicon carbide devices for new inverters

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The technology group ZF will, from 2025, purchase silicon carbide (SiC) devices from STMicroelectronics. ZF will leverage ST’s vertically integrated silicon carbide manufacturing in Europe and Asia to secure customer orders in electromobility. Our order book in electromobility until 2030 now amounts to more than thirty billion euros.

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BMW Group signs €540M supply contract with Ganfeng for lithium from mines in Australia

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Andreas Wendt, member of the Board of Management of BMW AG responsible for Purchasing and Supplier Network. For the BMW Group’s purchasing experts, ethically responsible raw material extraction and processing begins at the mines themselves. Cobalt will be sourced directly from mines in Australia and Morocco in the future.

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BMW boosts CATL battery order to €7.3B, signs €2.9B battery order with Samsung SDI

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The BMW Group is deepening its existing business relationships with battery cell manufacturers CATL (Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Andreas Wendt, member of the Board of Management of BMW AG responsible for Purchasing and Supplier Network. Limited) and Samsung SDI. billion (contract duration from 2020 to 2031), with €4.5

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Nissan Forecasts US$2.9B Loss for Fiscal Year; Cuts Planned Production by 20%

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Joint manufacturing projects with Alliance partner Renault in Morocco and India will be revised. In Morocco, Nissan will suspend its participation in the industrial project near Tangiers. The focus is on future investments in products, technology, support functions and purchasing cost reductions.

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Roskill: Spread of COVID-19 threatens cobalt supply; bottlenecks out of DRC

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Roskill has so far recorded the closure of 21 operations as a result of the outbreak, including: Vale’s Voisey’s Bay and Glencore’s Sudbury in Canada; Ambatovy in Madagascar; Coral Bay and Taganito in the Philippines; CTT in Morocco.

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