Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

BASF broke ground for its new production plant for sodium methylate in Guaratinguetá, Brazil, its largest site in South America. Sodium methylate is an efficient and reliable catalyst for the production of biodiesel. It is the second BASF plant for this product, in addition to a plant in Ludwigshafen.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The hot brine that comes up from the subsurface as part of geothermal power production at the Salton Sea in California is a rich stew of minerals, including iron, magnesium, calcium, sodium, and lithium. That would be the largest brine source of lithium in the world, bigger than any individual South American salar deposit.

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Plug In India

MARCH 15, 2023

Considering a use case with the following supply chain, The total emissions for lithium extraction in Chile, which then stays in Chile for lithium processing and proceeds to Korea for cell manufacturing and vehicle assembly will be 1.5 9,10,11,12] LFP (Lithium Iron Phosphate) and Sodium-Ion battery packs will not use Cobalt and Nickel.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The company presented a prototype of the vehicle earlier this week in Brazil and now hopes to spread its wings across South America. It is hoped that production of the prototype will allow suitability testing to be carried out that examines the utilisation of electrical energy for the transportation of goods and passengers. .

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