The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The lithium sector in South America’s "lithium triangle," which spans Argentina, Chile, and Bolivia, has long been central to the global race for extracting the battery metal needed for electric vehicles. Experts forecast a potential supply shortfall by the end of the decade, just as global EV demand begins to rise sharply.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2023

The EnergyX team of scientists and engineers have worked relentlessly for five years developing cutting-edge DLE technology to solve the immense bottlenecks that have limited global lithium production and supply chain. his single bottleneck (a massive lithium shortage) is the biggest challenge to scaling EV production.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2016

Mexico is Ford’s fourth-largest vehicle manufacturing site for global customers—behind the US, China and Germany. Vehicles produced in Mexico also serve customers in the US, Canada, China, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and South Korea. billion in Ford facilities alone in the US.

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Teslarati

MAY 23, 2022

LG Energy Solutions’ global communications team informed Teslarati that Rainer Zietlow set a new Guinness World Record with a Volkswagen ID.4 The world-record driver drove up the dormant Uturuncu volcano in Bolivia, reaching 5,816 meters in altitude. 4 GTX powered by LG Energy Solution batteries. .

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

According to the latest available figures from the GECF Global Gas Outlook 2050, natural gas production in the Central Asian Republic is set to increase by 78% to reach the level of more than 141 billion cubic metres (bcm) by 2050, at a remarkable annual growth rate of 1.9%.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 16, 2024

” The move aligns with India’s broader strategy to secure essential minerals from resource-rich nations globally. V L Kantha Rao, India’s top bureaucrat in the mining ministry, had previously hinted at the country’s interest in lithium assets, mentioning preliminary discussions with Bolivia in December.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 20, 2024

Global miner Rio Tinto will invest USD 350 million at its Rincon lithium plant in Argentina as it works to begin production by the end of the year, the company said this week following Chief Executive Jakob Stausholm ‘s visit to the site.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 6, 2024

The desert holds the main deposits of the mineral in Chile, which is part of Latin America’s “lithium triangle” with Argentina and Bolivia. The desert holds the main deposits of the mineral in Chile, which is part of Latin America’s “lithium triangle” with Argentina and Bolivia.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2021

The salt lakes in the border region between Argentina, Bolivia and Chile are home to roughly half the world’s lithium reserves. Based on its current market forecast, the BMW Group expects at least 50% of its global sales to come from fully-electric vehicles in 2030.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

Due to political instability, there is a question of US access to materials produced in Bolivia, which holds the world’s largest lithium resource and has new production projects in the pipeline, she says. This action by China highlights the risks of global dependence. —Ona Egbue.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2010

GM South America includes GM’s existing sales and manufacturing operations in Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela as well as sales activities in those countries and Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay. The GM International Operations team is doing a great job expanding our global presence.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2011

KORES ) and steelmaker POSCO has entered an agreement with Bolivia’s state-run miner Comibol (Corporación Minera de Bolivia) to set up a joint venture to produce lithium intended for lithium-ion batteries. Among the other countries, identified lithium resources for Bolivia and Chile total 9 million tons and in excess of 7.5

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Most of the world’s lithium comes from Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Australia and China, but American resources being developed by new entrants into this market have set up the state of Nevada to become the key venue and proving ground for game-changing trade in this everyday mineral.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2012

The price increases in China follow the increases in global lithium product prices, including lithium carbonate, announced by major producers Rockwood Lithium and FMC Lithium this year. Rockwood Lithium announced in early May 2012 to lift global lithium salts prices by 22% or US$1,000 per metric tonne, effective 1 July 2012.

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 25, 2024

While the global average for retaining a vehicle by an individual is at eight years or approximately 75,000 kilometres, if you are someone who finds it difficult to part ways with your ageing car, you would be better off with a Toyota or a Honda. Some cars are built for show, some are built for performance and others are for practicality.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2016

According to The Economist , the “global scramble to secure supplies of lithium by the world’s largest battery producers, and by end-users such as carmakers”, among other things, has seen the price of lithium carbonate imported to China more than double just in November and December of last year alone, when it reached an amazing $13,000 per ton.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

This is approximately half of global production. Australia is the global leader in lithium production in 2021, with Chile (26,000 tonnes), China (14,000 tonnes), and Argentina (6,200 […].

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2015

The team discovered evidence of the dominance of leaded gasoline based on measurements in an ice core from Illimani glacier in Bolivia; Illimani is the highest mountain of the eastern Bolivian Andes and is located at the northeastern margin of the Andean Altiplano. Glacier ice is an invaluable archive of past air pollution.

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Baua Electric

MAY 4, 2024

This comes after a fairly long period of dampened economic conditions in some of the key global markets which saw rough macroeconomic conditions, country-specific local currency depreciation, availability of foreign exchange and also regulatory issues.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2022

Chile and Bolivia appear to be heading down the same path, placing rigid restrictions on outside access to the countries’ lithium. Mexico is also pushing for a coalition with Bolivia, Chile and Argentina to create a lithium version of OPEC, which would control more than half of the world’s lithium resources.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

In the end, 188 countries voted in favor of the motion, with Cuba, Bolivia, Sudan, and Venezuela voting against it. Weech secured consensus before mid-morning by calling a vote to “take note” of the accord, rather than approve it. The accord will not become an official United Nations document unless unanimous approval is secured.

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Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

Globally, 27 percent of all passenger vehicles are forecasted to be EV by 2030. GM projects more than $1 million in EV sales globally by 2025. may be forced to rely on foreign countries–primarily China, Australia and Chile, Argentina and Bolivia in South America–or our lithium supplies. domestic supply of lithium.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Most of the worlds Lithium is located in Bolivia, 50% plus. Which means we would be extremely vunerable to Bolivia for our transportation needs, to a degree which we have never been to a foreign country. Bolivia is no friend of the USA. We have no known Lithium deposits that could sustain domestic battery production.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2023

Although there is no scarcity of reserves for these energy transition minerals, global capabilities for mining and refining them are limited. Supporting policies will allow developing countries realise new business opportunities and could improve resilience while keeping the global decarbonisation agenda on course.

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Green Car Congress

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. Bolivia was at the bottom of the rankings this year.

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Baua Electric

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Here are some of the issues that Amnesty International says that automakers need to watch out for: DRC: The DRC accounts for roughly 70% of global cobalt production and holds the seventh largest reserves of copper globally. In 2016, Amnesty International found children and adults toiling in hazardous hand-dug cobalt mines.

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