Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Porsche, Siemens Energy and partners are developing and implementing a pilot project—the “Haru Oni” project—in Chile that is expected to yield the world’s first integrated, commercial, industrial-scale plant for making synthetic climate-neutral fuels (eFuels). Electrolyzers will use wind power to produce green hydrogen.

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Teslarati

JUNE 17, 2024

On Monday, June 17, 2024, Hyundai Motor Group brands, Hyundai Motors Companyand Kia Corporation, signed a lithium supply agreement with Chilean miner SQM Salar S.A. is a fully owned subsidiary of Socedad Quimaica y Miners de Chile S.A. It plans to boost output in Chile by up to 100,000 tons in 2025. SQM Salar S.A.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Hyundai Motor Group signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with SK On to secure a supply of EV batteries in North America. Through the EV battery MOU, we will be able to further accelerate our efforts to secure EV leadership in the North American market. Further details on the cooperation will be revealed at a later stage.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

ADEME, France’s Environment and Energy Management Agency, carried out a study with IFP Energies nouvelles (IFPEN) on the dynamics of lithium supply and demand, based on different scenarios for the electrification of the global car fleet by 2050. Further, vulnerabilities could emerge from increased competition among lithium buyers.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2022

Under the terms of the MoU, Compass Minerals would supply LGES with with a battery-grade lithium product from its lithium brine development project at its Ogden, Utah, solar evaporation facility. As outlined in the MOU, purchase pricing would be based on market price and sales volume thresholds would be dependent upon product qualifications.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2020

In Chile, SQM has stated that COVID-19 prevention measures have, so far, had “no material impact” on operations, with other facilities in the Atacama presumed to have seen a similar effect. Roskill anticipates 2020 production losses in Chile to be kept below 20%.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

AES Gener has ordered 20MW of A123’s advanced Li-ion energy storage solutions for a spinning reserve project in Northern Chile. The project expands the relationship between A123 and AES Energy Storage and is AES’ second in Chile to use A123 energy storage technology.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2022

Among other projects, the Santiago de Chile-based company is building the Haru Oni eFuel pilot plant in Punta Arenas (Chile). The additional capital will be used to develop industrial eFuel facilities in Chile, the US and Australia, which have large supplies of renewable energy. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2021

SQM (Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile S.A.) reached a long-term agreement to supply lithium products to LG Energy Solution (LGES). As pat of the agreement, which runs from 2021 to 2029, SQM will supply battery-grade lithium carbonmate and lithium hydroxide for the production of high-quality cathode materials for EV battery cells.

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Innovation News Network

MAY 12, 2023

Discover how Chile's lithium market is well positioned to become the world-leading supplier with its rich reserves of the commodity. The post The exceptional potential of Chile’s lithium market appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 27, 2023

When we think of where lithium comes from, we think of South America (Chile specifically), Australia, and the US a bit — with processing in China, of course. We don’t think of Africa. However, Africa has resources, and the expectation is that the continent will be a much bigger source of lithium by 2030. Lithium […]

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2023

NMC/NCA scenario illustrates that the market share of NMC/NCA will increase to 100% by 2050. It’s mainly driven by the electric vehicle market penetration and battery technology development. c) Sensitivity of cumulative requirement under different battery scenarios.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2021

Goldman Sachs and Robert Friedland, Founder of Ivanhoe Mines, suggest prices of US$15,000/t might be seen by 2025, due to restricted supply and bullish demand growth. Although Chile and Peru contributed 40% of global mine supply in 2020, Roskill observed, copper production there is yet to fully recover to pre-pandemic levels.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

Total visible copper stocks (LME + COMEX + SHFE + Chinese bonded warehouses) amounted to just 560kt at the end of January, noted critical materials supply chain intelligence company Roskill—only 11kt more than the lowest recent stock level of 549kt in December 2019.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

We are taking important steps in Argentina and Brazil, with the aim of decarbonizing mobility and ensuring strategic supplies of raw materials necessary for the success of the Company’s global electrification plans. Los Azules is an advanced-stage porphyry copper exploration project in the San Juan pro-mining province of Argentina.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2023

The collaboration is focused on unlocking the North American supply of lithium by using EnergyX’s direct lithium extraction (DLE) technology portfolio to maximize efficiency while improving sustainability for GM’s rapidly scaling EV production. We will unlock lithium supply in the US, a pivotal move in expanding the EV industry.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 15, 2024

Argentina is part of the “Lithium Triangle” along with Chile and Bolivia with more than half of the world’s total lithium resources and having the distinction of having 2nd largest lithium resources.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2022

Global benchmarks conceal a range of country-level estimates that vary according to market maturity, resource availability, project characteristics, local financing conditions and labor costs. While demand for low-carbon technologies in the energy sector bounced back strongly in the second half of 2021, supply has struggled to keep up.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2015

While other commodities are floundering or completely collapsing in this market, lithium—the critical mineral in the emerging battery gigafactory war—is poised to explode, and going forward Nevada is emerging as the front line in this pending American lithium boom. Albemarle Corp.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2020

It is now estimated that green hydrogen could supply up to 25% of the world’s energy needs by 2050 and become a US$10-trillion addressable market by 2050. The Catapult target will require investment of roughly US$110 billion and deliver more than 120,000 jobs, thus in parallel facilitating recovery from COVID-19.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2021

This provides economic long-term energy storage, ensuring security of supply even during extreme weather conditions. Well-managed clean energy transitions are a solution to the issues that we are seeing in gas and electricity markets today—not the cause of them. — IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 24, 2022

This rapid growth is forecast to be met by gains in output by Australia, Chile and Argentina. The report forecasts a supply gap will persist over the outlook period, with total supply from both mine and brine operations currently insufficient to meet demand.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2020

The project, which is expected to be operational in 2023, will convert renewable energy from one of EGPNA’s solar plants in the United States into green hydrogen to be supplied to a bio-refinery. Enel Green Power is developing projects in the green hydrogen segment in Italy, Spain, Chile and the United States.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2016

The contract is to supply a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) propulsion package for a cargo carrier designed by NSK Ship Design for Norwegian shipowner NSK Shipping. Bergen Gas Engines from Rolls-Royce are the only pure gas engines on the market using a spark plug ignition. Rolls-Royce has signed a US$6.5-million

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2021

Fincantieri and Enel Green Power Italia have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to define an integrated solution for the production, supply, management and use of green hydrogen for port areas and long-range maritime transport.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Chile’s SQM , the world’s second-largest lithium producer, on Wednesday posted an 82% fall in its fourth-quarter net profit from a year earlier, below forecasts as prices for the key battery metal continued to slide from earlier peaks. Revenue for the period fell 58% to USD 1.31 billion, also lagging LSEG’s USD 1.35

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2019

The commodities market endured yet another annus horribilis , with just four commodities—natural gas, uranium, cocoa and wheat—recording any uptick at all. And just like other financial markets, trader sentiment plays a big role in determining trajectories. It’s back with a vengeance in 2019. dollar makes it all the more remarkable.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The Association will include Members from the entire supply chain: from resource to the end-users. —Anand Sheth. The element lithium (Li) is the lightest of all the metallic atoms and is the 33 rd most common element on Earth. ppm Li (0.0018%).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2016

And the battle for market share in and around this commodity has everyone from major tech players to trend-setting investor gurus vying for a foothold. Elon himself mentioned during the unveiling that Tesla will be gobbling up much of the world’s lithium supply with plans to produce 500,000 EVs per year. “In

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2020

Currently, virtually all of the lithium used in the US is produced outside the country—most is mined in Argentina, Chile, China, and Australia. The only current domestic supply comes from the Silver Peak mine in Nevada.

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Baua Electric

MAY 23, 2024

. “Since our sales contracts are tied to market price indices, our realized sales prices reflect the market price trends,” the company said in a statement, noting China remains the primary market concentrating over 75% of lithium demand. SQM’s sales distribution follows the same pattern.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2020

6 European countries, the European Commission, Russia and Chile have all released hydrogen strategies since May 2020. The current electrolysis pipeline implies that by the mid-2020s, electricity supplied to electrolyzers globally could be on par with the total electricity consumption of Belgium or the US state of New Jersey.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

It does not, for example, have a strong domestic market for lithium: global supplies of the metal come mostly from Australia, Chile and China. But here’s the problem: Europe is not especially well situated to optimize compliance with the new demands. — Nature Materials editorial. 21, 131 (2022).

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Baua Electric

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Last week, we reported on news of Gogoro’s founder and CEO, Horace Luke, resigning amid accusations of subsidy fraud by the company in its domestic market of Taiwan. What was described by an insider as a “supply chain mistake” meant that a portion of the company’s VIVA model electric scooters used a single foreign-produced component.

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Teslarati

MARCH 23, 2023

China’s lithium market reached just 260,000 yuan ($38,079) per ton today, less than half its price from November last year. Meanwhile, in North and Central America, corporations and governments alike have doubled down on lithium investments, especially as the United States looks to decouple itself from Chinese supply.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2021

Livent will supply the lithium directly to the BMW Group’s battery cell manufacturers from 2022 on. The salt lakes in the border region between Argentina, Bolivia and Chile are home to roughly half the world’s lithium reserves. The value of the multi-year contract will total around €285 million.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 16, 2024

Mines Minister Pralhad Joshi, expressing optimism about the project’s impact, stated, “The project will help India strengthen lithium supplies while developing lithium mining and downstream sectors of both the countries.” This includes initiatives in countries like Australia, Argentina, and Chile.

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