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Why New Production Sources of Tungsten Are Critical for Increased Global Supply

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and global economies with businesses and manufacturers having to close doors and furlough employees, the global trade markets plummeted to an 11-year low of 41.5% New Tungsten Production Will Open the Global Supply Chain. which will benefit the overall global supply chain of tungsten for production and manufacturing.

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SK On, EcoPro Materials and GEM to build battery precursor plant in South Korea

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SK On will partner with Korea’s largest cathode material company EcoPro, and Chinese battery materials producer GEM to build a battery core material production facility in Saemangeum, South Korea. The three companies together will spend up on 1.21

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Why the massive influx of Chinese EVs will end in tears | Opinion

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READ MORE: Omoda and Jaecoo the latest new Chinese brands to take on BYD and GWM READ MORE: IM Motors locked in for Australian arrival as MG’s luxury arm READ MORE: Hating on Chinese EVs? It’s fabulous, but will anyone buy a $135,000 Chinese MPV? Bloody hell. The Zeekr 009 is on sale in Australia.

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Global auto production may hit 80+ million units this year; hybrids below 2% of total output

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Global sales of passenger vehicles increased from 75.4 The auto industry’s production capacities are far from fully used; PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) estimates current global vehicle assembly capacity at almost 95 million, the report notes. Rising sales translate into an ever-expanding global vehicle parc. million to 78.6

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TOAR shows present-day global ozone distribution and trends relevant to health; public database

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People living in parts of southern Europe, South Korea and southern Japan and China also experienced more than 15 days a year of ozone levels above 70 ppb. TOAR is a project of the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry project, with support from NOAA, Forschungszentrum Jülich and the World Meteorological Organization.

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Kia & Hyundai unfazed by BYD’s EVs in South Korea

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Kia and Hyundai are unfazed by BYD’s electric vehicles launching in South Korea. Earlier this month, Chinese automaker BYD announced it would enter South Korea’s passenger car market in 2025. BYD entered South Korea’s commercial car market in 2016 but has yet to launch a passenger car there.

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Studies find global COVID-19 lockdowns have significantly reduced PM2.5 and NO2 pollution, but ozone up

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The week of Chinese New Year holiday is indicated by the red lantern shown inset panels (b) and (h). They found that nitrogen dioxide pollution decreased by an average of 40% over Chinese cities and by 20% to 38% over Western Europe and the United States during the 2020 lockdown, as compared to the same time in 2019. van Gent, J.,

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