Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2021

Several companies have initiated a “Responsible Lithium Partnership” aiming to work towards responsible natural resource management, including lithium, in Chile’s Salar de Atacama. This cross-industry partnership is funded at its inception by BASF, Daimler AG, Fairphone, and Volkswagen Group.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The world has entered the “lithium century” almost without noticing it, but until now this critical industry lacked a central voice. Traces of this element are present in nearly all minerals, brines, clays and sea water. ppm Li (0.0018%).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2020

World’s biggest green hydrogen project developers and partners come together to launch Green Hydrogen Catapult initiative New initiative aims to drive down costs to below $2 per kilogram, to transform energy across most carbon intensive industries, accelerating race to zero emissions Founding partners include.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Global miners BHP and Rio Tinto have formed a partnership agreement to accelerate the development of technology that could significantly increase water recovery from mine tailings, and in turn reduce potential safety risks and environmental footprints associated with tailings storage facilities.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2020

The plan is to extract lithium using a minimally invasive process from the deep waters in geothermal plants of the Upper Rhine Graben—an area that has particularly favorable geological conditions for geothermal heat development. If we consistently use this potential, we could cover a considerable part of the demand in Germany.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Operating capacity for splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen through electrolysis technology currently stands at 82 MW with a pipeline of more than 23 GW, according to the IHS Markit Power-to-X tracker. 6 European countries, the European Commission, Russia and Chile have all released hydrogen strategies since May 2020.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2023

IBC Advanced Technologies, a developer of highly selective separations products, engineered systems and processes based on Molecular Recognition Technology, announced Phase One results of the Direct Lithium to Product (DLP) pilot plant currently operating at Salar de Maricunga, Chile. Complete recycling of process water.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2023

Johnson Matthey’s technology will use green hydrogen and recycled CO 2 to produce eMethanol which can be used in the shipping and chemical industries or upgraded into other eFuels including eSAF. Johnson Matthey’s technology is producing eMethanol today at the HIF Haru Oni Demonstration Plant in Chile. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2021

In the context of the energy transition, hydrogen can make a valuable contribution to the decarbonization of energy-intensive industries such as chemicals, aviation, maritime transport and non-electrified railways, provided it is produced in a sustainable manner.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2010

First LNG exports are planned to commence from 2014, underpinned by agreements in Chile, China, Japan and Singapore for the purchase of up to 9.5 The gas is trapped in coal seams (typically 300-600 meters underground) by water pressure. The water is pumped out, and the natural gas is released from the coal. mtpa of LNG.

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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. Chile is seeking to retake its position as the world’s top lithium producer, but environmentalists fear extraction in the Atacama desert will harm fragile ecosystems there.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2016

For the electric vehicle industry alone, Goldman Sachs predicts that for every 1 percent rise in EV market share, lithium demand will rise by 70,000 tons per year. Right now, most of the world’s lithium comes from Australia, China and the “Lithium Triangle” of Argentina, Chile and Bolivia. Link to original article: [link].

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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. There aren’t many American properties out there like ours.”.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 19, 2024

Tony Chang, general manager of Hongde subsidiary Star Aquaculture , says 18 of the ponds are stocked with mullet (prized for their roe) and shrimp, while milkfish help clean the water in the reservoir ponds. Star Aquaculture grows milkfish to help clean water for its breeding ponds.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Or, solar thermal can directly provide heat for industrial processes to make steel, cement, and chemicals—all energy-intensive sectors that are difficult to clean up. Atacama Desert, Chile The US $1.4 Inside the tower, molten salts are heated to 565 °C and flow down into storage tanks, turning water into steam to drive turbines.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Or, solar thermal can directly provide heat for industrial processes to make steel, cement, and chemicals—all energy-intensive sectors that are difficult to clean up. Atacama Desert, Chile The US $1.4 Inside the tower, molten salts are heated to 565 °C and flow down into storage tanks, turning water into steam to drive turbines.

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MAY 30, 2021

Though steam was doing well powering the trains and factories incorporating a steam engine into a personal car was not a practical and efficient way and soon became obsolete mainly due to the long starting time and the need to fill water in a short span with other numerous other inconvenience. million metric tonnes. With reserves valued at 4.7

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Baua Electric

MARCH 7, 2024

The two companies plan to study the potential and the recovery methods for lithium in waters in the Lazio region, where Altamin has had permits since the 1970s and where it was assessing the possibility of producing geothermal energy.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2015

billion) were all in the top 10 of investing countries while more than $1 billion was invested in Indonesia, Chile, Mexico, Kenya and Turkey. billion, the largest single renewable energy asset finance deal ever, outside large hydro—that of the 600MW Gemini project in Dutch waters. Additional to China, Brazil ($7.6

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Teslarati

APRIL 11, 2023

Currently, most lithium extraction is based on the simple and relatively effective “pond evaporation” extraction method, which only requires an extractor to pump out brine, let the water evaporate, and then process the remainder to create pure lithium.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 7, 2024

The report also highlights that global copper supply may face disruptions due to issues in major producing countries like Chile , Peru, and Panama. In Chile, operational challenges and water supply issues are impacting mine production, while community actions in Peru are expected to affect mining investments and output negatively.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 8, 2024

An advantage of filtering the ultralight battery metal from salt water is that it avoids the need for costly and environmentally challenging open pit mines or large evaporation ponds, as employed in the world’s leading producers Australia and Chile.

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Plug In India

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Lithium is a metal that is mined in the deserts of Australia, China, Argentina, and Chile. You will save thousands on fuel and electricity and the peace of mind knowing that you are not contributing to the horribly dirty oil and gas industry. So what about the lithium used in EV batteries?

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Plug In India

MARCH 15, 2023

The interesting thing is before electric cars were popular, no one in the auto industry or mainstream media even questioned where petrol or the metals used in engines are coming from. The reality is these mines are not even in use by the battery industry and they are not Lithium Mines. 4] An electric car emits about 3,000 pounds or 1.36

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Baua Electric

MARCH 25, 2024

states, legal experts, politicians, landowners, investors, royalty firms, industry executives and consultants. Clean Water Act gives Washington regulatory power over water extraction and reinjection across the country, state officials have autonomy to govern other parts of the process. While the 1972 U.S.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2020

In Chile, lithium mining uses nearly 65% of the water in the country’s Salar de Atamaca region—one of the driest desert areas in the world—to pump out brines from drilled wells. UNCTAD also recommends that the industry find ways to reduce its dependence on critical raw materials. Brazilian mine. Source: UN.

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JUNE 6, 2023

  The electric vehicle industry is not just about cutting-edge technology and zero-emission vehicles. The supply chain in the EV industry is a complex ecosystem that spans multiple continents, involving various components, raw materials, and intricate processes. Here are some major global suppliers in the EV industry.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2021

An editorial in the journal Nature calls on policy makers, industry leaders and researchers to mitigate quickly the environmental and human costs of Li-ion batteries. Extracting the raw materials, mainly lithium and cobalt, requires large quantities of energy and water.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2023

Australia (lithium), China (graphite, rare earths), Chile (copper and lithium), the Democratic Republic of Congo (cobalt), Indonesia (nickel) and South Africa (platinum, iridium) are the dominant players. As a result, the industry is highly concentrated, with few controlling a significant portion of global production and trade.

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Drive Electric

AUGUST 9, 2022

There are two main sources of lithium in the world; hard rock mines and brine water. With 8 million tons, Chile has the world’s largest known lithium reserves, followed by Australia (2.7 Where does lithium come from? In fact, 87% of the world’s lithium comes from the sea and involves a lengthy evaporation process to obtain.

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Baua Electric

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Some conducted risk assessments of specific battery supply chain minerals, met with affected communities, and participated in initiatives with civil society organizations to develop shared frameworks and expectations of conduct for the industry. Amnesty International considers cobalt mining regions of Kolwezi to be “sacrifice zones”.

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Drive Electric

AUGUST 9, 2022

There are two main sources of lithium in the world; hard rock mines and brine water. With 8 million tons, Chile has the world’s largest known lithium reserves, followed by Australia (2.7 Where does lithium come from? In fact, 87% of the world’s lithium comes from the sea and involves a lengthy evaporation process to obtain.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 6, 2022

I understand the concern that the timeline is very ambitious but on the other hand, Senator Manchin’s draft includes some of the world’s largest producers of battery materials: Canada, Chile, Australia, South Korea, etc.” As noted in my earlier article, many automakers like Mazda and Rivian are lobbying hard to water it down.

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