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Magnis signs offtake agreement with Tesla for anode active materials; N. American production

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The agreement is conditional on Magnis securing a final location for its commercial AAM facility by 30 June 2023, producing AAM from a pilot plant by 31 March 2024, commencing production from the commercial AAM facility by 1 February 2025, and customer qualification. Earlier post.)

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Statoil makes another high-impact gas discovery offshore Tanzania

Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2014

Statoil reports another high-impact gas discovery offshore Tanzania; the discovery in the Piri prospect is Statoil’s and co-venturer ExxonMobil’s sixth discovery and the fifth high-impact discovery in Block 2 offshore Tanzania. ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Tanzania Limited holds the remaining 35%.

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Statoil announces another high-impact natural gas discovery offshore Tanzania

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2013

Statoil announced its fifth discovery in Block 2 offshore Tanzania. We have initiated a new and ambitious drilling campaign offshore Tanzania following four successful discoveries during the first drilling phase. The Mronge-1 well discovered additional gas volumes and furthers the potential for a natural gas development in Tanzania.

Tanzania

Tanzania Gas 2012 2007

Statoil makes third gas discovery in deepwater offshore Tanzania

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2012

Statoil’s Lavani-2 exploration and appraisal well has resulted in a new natural gas discovery offshore Tanzania. Tanzania currently has limited upstream gas activity, but the government has issued a number of exploration and production licences and is looking to become a new gas hub.

Tanzania

Tanzania Gas 2007 2012

Statoil and ExxonMobil report another large-impact gas discovery in deepwater offshore Tanzania

Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2012

Statoil and partner ExxonMobil report a large gas discovery (Lavani) in the Statoil-operated Block 2 licence offshore Tanzania. This is the second large offshore Tanzania discovery (Zafarani) reported by the partners. The results so far mark an important step towards a possible natural gas development in Tanzania.

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Walkabout Resources’ Tanzanian graphite project moves to construction phase

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2021

Australia-based Walkabout Resources, an Africa-focused energy minerals developer, announced that its Tanzania Lindi Jumbo flake graphite project had progressed into the construction phase, with the CRDB-approved Independent Project Manager completing site visits and bulk earthmoving contractor TNR commencing mobilization.

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Statoil and ExxonMobil announce large deepwater gas discovery offshore Tanzania

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

Statoil and partner ExxonMobil have made a large gas discovery offshore Tanzania. Statoil announced on 17 February that the partnership had encountered indications of natural gas in the Zafarani exploration well in the Block 2 licence offshore Tanzania. —Tim Dodson, executive vice president for Exploration in Statoil.

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BHP investing US$40M in Kabanga Nickel, US$10 in Lifezone; 2nd tranche of $50M slated for Kabanga

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 15, 2022

BHP, a world leading resources company, has invested US$40 million into Kabanga Nickel in Tanzania. Lifezone hydromet is more cost-efficient than smelting, has a significantly lower environmental impact, and will ensure that finished Class 1 battery-grade nickel, copper and cobalt will be produced in Tanzania, Kabanga Nickel said.

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Imperium3 New York produces its first full-sized prismatic cells

Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2021

The first cells were produced using manual settings to refine the product design for future automated production. iM3NY product roadmap. Magnis has a world-class graphite asset in Tanzania, associated production IP and a strategic partnership and 10% interest in C4V.

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Graphex Technologies in MOU with Reforme Group to develop graphite manufacturing facilities in Australia; mine-to-battery graphite supply

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Graphex has a roadmap to grow production 40,000 metric tonnes per year over the next 3 years. This scaled production and global expansion comes amidst a recent push from the US Government to stabilize US EV and battery manufacturing supply chains.

Australia

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TUM, partners to present electric aCar prototype at IAA; transport for sub-Saharan Africa

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2017

To make sure the idea of the aCar becomes more than just an idea and actually makes it to series production, Sascha Koberstaedt and Martin Šoltés have founded the company “Evum Motors GmbH”. Augustine University of Tanzania (SAUT) Tanzania. The first vehicles are to be manufactured in a model factory in Europe.

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Tesla inks deal with Magnis Energy for three-year graphite deal

Teslarati

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

A pilot plant must produce AAM by March 31, 2024, and commercial production must commence by February 1, 2025. The company said it is currently in the process of selecting a location for this plant but is developing a pilot facility for both Nachu (Tanzania) graphite concentrate and AAM has already started.

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Tesla Effect: Japan’s AC giant innovates to prepare for Elon Musk’s HVAC project

Teslarati

AUGUST 28, 2021

According to a Nikkei Asia report, Daikin has launched a smartphone-based air conditioning service in Tanzania, Africa, that would allow users to turn on their AC units only on days when they need it. And if Apple’s success is any indication, an ecosystem of products could definitely disrupt an established market.

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Global geothermal industry passes 12,000 MW operational

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Financing was announced for projects in Costa Rica, Dominica, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Tanzania, and the United States, while projects in drilling and start-of-construction phases made headway in Chile, Germany, Guatemala, Italy, Japan, Montserrat, The Philippines, Rwanda, and Zambia.

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Roskill: graphite prices could push higher on tightening markets for batteries & electrodes

Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2018

First, environmental plant closures in the raw material coal needle coke industry hampered the production of graphite electrodes. At the same time, consumption of graphite electrodes in electric arc furnaces (EAFs) began to rise as the Chinese government took steps to halt production of poor quality induction furnace steel.

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More than 50 percent of MoUs signed in Vibrant Gujarat are green | Autocar Professional

Baua Electric

JANUARY 9, 2024

times more production and 2.7 lakh units per year and increase production by 7.5 lakh units per year and increase production by 7.5 It will generate green jobs, making Gujarat a leading exporter of green energy products and contributing to making the state into a USD 3 trillion economy. This will lead to 1.7

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Gravita India largest battery recycling firm enters into EV recycling business

Electric Vehicles India

JUNE 28, 2021

According to the International Energy Agency, 100-120 GWh of electric vehicle batteries will be retired by 2030, a volume roughly equivalent to current annual battery production. 19 coupled with cost-effective recycling and long term business association with Amara Raja.

India

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Researchers castigate planning bodies for ill-conceived Jatropha programs

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2011

According to the authors: In India the provisions of mandatory blending could not be enforced as seed production fell far short of the expectation. China is seeing very little production of biodiesel from Jatropha seeds. A recent study has reported discontinuance by 85% of the Jatropha farmers.

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Study finds economic losses due to health burdens caused by in-car PM2.5 exposure inversely proportional to per capita GDP

Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

drivers inhaled is connected to the duration drivers spend in pollution hotspots and socio-economic indicators such as gross domestic product (GDP). Surrey’s Global Centre for Clean Air Research (GCARE) set out to investigate whether the amount of PM 2.5 particles.

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A closer look at graphite—its forms, functions and future in EV batteries

Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

That spherical graphite is a less expensive product than its cousin, where we take the spherical graphite and put it through a secondary process called coating—applying that microscopic layer of asphalt to it. It’s a petroleum product. Will there be that much production online in Canada? Will it match demand? Probably not.

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

Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2020

According to a January 2020 report from the US Geological Survey (USGS), the DRC is the world’s leading source of mined cobalt, supplying approximately 70% of world cobalt mine production. With the exception of production in Morocco and artisanally mined cobalt in DRC, most cobalt is mined as a byproduct of copper or nickel.

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BNEF: producing battery materials in the DRC could lower supply-chain emissions and add value to the country’s cobalt

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

With a functioning AfCFTA, the DRC can receive other upstream mineral inputs needed for lithium-ion batteries—such as manganese from, say, South Africa and Madagascar, copper from Zambia, graphite from Mozambique and Tanzania, phosphate from Morocco, and lithium from Zimbabwe, to name but a few.

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Tesla releases Conflict Mineral report, extending history of humane mining practices

Teslarati

MAY 28, 2021

In the report, Tesla outlined its processes for securing minerals used in its products, ensuring they are obtained in humane ways that do not involve any child labor, human trafficking, or slavery. Tesla has released its Conflict Mineral Report for the fiscal year ending on December 31, 2019. Cassiterite (Tin). Wolframite (Tungsten).

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Researchers Finds Lake Tanganyika Has Experienced Unprecedented Warming Over Last Century

Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2010

Our data show a consistent relationship between lake surface temperature and productivity [such as fish stocks]. As the lake gets warmer, we expect productivity to decline, and we expect that it will affect the [fishing] industry. —Jessica Tierney, lead author. —Andrew Cohen.

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Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

China and India recently announced plans to reduce the carbon intensity, or the amount of carbon-dioxide emissions per unit of gross domestic product, of their economies over the next decade. Each SABMF has a production capacity of 5 MGY and utilizes feedstock from acreage adjacent to the facility. Donovan is CEO of Renergie, Inc.,

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EV Driven

Magnis signs offtake agreement with Tesla for anode active materials; N. American production

Statoil makes another high-impact gas discovery offshore Tanzania

Statoil announces another high-impact natural gas discovery offshore Tanzania

Statoil makes third gas discovery in deepwater offshore Tanzania

Statoil and ExxonMobil report another large-impact gas discovery in deepwater offshore Tanzania

Walkabout Resources’ Tanzanian graphite project moves to construction phase

Statoil and ExxonMobil announce large deepwater gas discovery offshore Tanzania

BHP investing US$40M in Kabanga Nickel, US$10 in Lifezone; 2nd tranche of $50M slated for Kabanga

Imperium3 New York produces its first full-sized prismatic cells

Graphex Technologies in MOU with Reforme Group to develop graphite manufacturing facilities in Australia; mine-to-battery graphite supply

TUM, partners to present electric aCar prototype at IAA; transport for sub-Saharan Africa

Tesla inks deal with Magnis Energy for three-year graphite deal

Tesla Effect: Japan’s AC giant innovates to prepare for Elon Musk’s HVAC project

Global geothermal industry passes 12,000 MW operational

Roskill: graphite prices could push higher on tightening markets for batteries & electrodes

More than 50 percent of MoUs signed in Vibrant Gujarat are green | Autocar Professional

Gravita India largest battery recycling firm enters into EV recycling business

Researchers castigate planning bodies for ill-conceived Jatropha programs

Study finds economic losses due to health burdens caused by in-car PM2.5 exposure inversely proportional to per capita GDP

A closer look at graphite—its forms, functions and future in EV batteries

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

BNEF: producing battery materials in the DRC could lower supply-chain emissions and add value to the country’s cobalt

Tesla releases Conflict Mineral report, extending history of humane mining practices

Researchers Finds Lake Tanganyika Has Experienced Unprecedented Warming Over Last Century

Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

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