Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Redwood Materials Anahola is the biggest stationary storage recycling project for Redwood Materials to date, but it is still only a small part of Redwood’s business. Since its launch in 2017, the company has set out to create a “circular supply chain” of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and clean-energy products.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Roughly 62 percent global cobalt output is found in the Democratic Republic of Congo. I fully anticipate we’re going to keep a lot of pressure on that cobalt production,” Ted Miller, head of energy storage strategy and research at Ford, said at a mining event in South Africa.

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Teslarati

MAY 28, 2021

The minerals must be “DRC Conflict Free,” meaning that the materials do not benefit “armed groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, or any adjoining country.” The Democratic Republic of the Congo. Tesla’s primary goal is to accelerate the transition to sustainable energy. Cassiterite (Tin).

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Cars That Think

APRIL 25, 2022

Limited (CATL) , which supplies both VW and Tesla— blindsided its current suppliers of pouch-style batteries, South Korea’s LG Energy Solutions and SK Innovation. (VW Nickel-rich batteries alone won’t get us there, despite currently unmatched energy density and performance. Low-cobalt batteries have been the response.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2022

Scientists and engineers have extended the range of EVs by cramming ever more energy into their batteries, and vehicle charging networks have expanded in many countries. For EVs, much of the environmental burden centers on the production of batteries, the most energy- and resource-intensive component of the vehicle. AFP/Getty Images.

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Get Electric Vehicle

JUNE 6, 2023

LG Chem’s batteries are known for their high energy density, reliability, and safety features. Panasonic batteries are renowned for their energy storage capacity and long cycle life. They offer high-energy-density battery solutions and are committed to developing sustainable battery technologies.

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Drive Electric

AUGUST 9, 2022

Vehicle manufacturing is an energy-intensive process. Regardless of whether your car is an EV or ICEV, the process to manufacture any vehicle is energy-intensive and requires the extraction and refinement of raw materials to build parts. 40% of our energy comes from renewable sources, such as hydro, geothermal and wind.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 20, 2021

Last month, Tesla released its Conflict Mineral Report for the fiscal year ending on December 31, 2019, and emphasized the importance of sourcing only responsibly produced materials.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 8, 2023

The transition to electric mobility presents a major opportunity for the African continent to leapfrog into the age of electric mobility, allowing most of the continent’s population to bypass the ICE age. Africa’s low motorization rates compared to other parts of the world makes this highly probable.

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Drive Electric

AUGUST 9, 2022

Vehicle manufacturing is an energy-intensive process. Regardless of whether your car is an EV or ICEV, the process to manufacture any vehicle is energy-intensive and requires the extraction and refinement of raw materials to build parts. 40% of our energy comes from renewable sources, such as hydro, geothermal and wind.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 27, 2021

One argument that often comes up against Tesla and Elon Musk is that they “own child slaves” or “own slave labor.” ” I’ve seen those in my notifications quite often (and randomly, too). But the fact remains that neither Tesla nor Elon Musk owns slaves, nor do they support slave labor or child labor.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

—Yayoi Sekine, head of energy storage at BNEF. Countries such as Indonesia, Chile, South Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo are looking to reverse this trend by using their raw materials competitiveness as an advantage to attract downstream investment across the supply chain.

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