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LITHIUM: Germany secures access to vast lithium deposit in Bolivia

  • Date: 12-12-18
  • Category: LITHIUM
  • Source: Reuters

Germany and Bolivia on Wednesday sealed a partnership for the industrial use of lithium, a key raw material for battery cell production, in an important step to become less dependent on Asian market leaders in the dawning age of electric cars.

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PGM SUPPLY: Amplats lowers production guidance for next three years

  • Date: 11-12-18
  • Category: PGM SUPPLY
  • Source: Mining Weekly

Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) on Tuesday said its production guidance would change from January 1, 2019, as Sibanye-Stillwater’s platinum group metals material would no longer be bought as concentrate, but toll treated, with the refined metal returned to Sibanye.

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SOUTH AFRICA: South Africa’s mining production increases 0.5% y/y – Stats SA

  • Date: 11-12-18
  • Category: SOUTH AFRICA
  • Source: Mining Weekly

Mining production lifted marginally, by 0.5% year-on-year, in October, primarily on the back of strong growth in platinum group metals (PGMs), diamonds and manganese ore output, according to Statistics South Africa (Stats SA).

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FUEL CELLS: Manganese hydride molecular sieve for practical hydrogen storage could cost roughly 5x less than 700 bar tanks

  • Date: 11-12-18
  • Category: FUEL CELLS
  • Source: Green Car Congress

An international team of researchers has developed a manganese hydride molecular sieve that can be readily synthesized from inexpensive precursors and demonstrates a reversible excess adsorption performance of 10.5 wt% and 197 kgH2m-3 at 120 bar at ambient temperature with no loss of activity after 54 cycles.

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EMISSIONS: European Parliament rejects Austria’s rotten car CO2 deal

  • Date: 11-12-18
  • Category: EMISSIONS
  • Source: Transport & Environment

Late last night in the 4th negotiation round the Austrian Presidency of the EU, the Commission and EU Parliament failed to reach an agreement on CO2 targets for cars and vans up to 2030. T&E deplores the stubbornness of the Austrian government in rejecting all Parliament’s and other Member States’ compromises and urges European countries and the Commission to start negotiating seriously.

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AUTO SALES: China car sales drop at steepest pace in almost seven years

  • Date: 11-12-18
  • Category: AUTO SALES
  • Source: Reuters

BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China’s automobile sales fell about 14 percent in November from a year earlier, the country’s top auto industry association said, marking the steepest such drop in nearly seven years in the world’s largest auto market.

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FUEL CELLS: Hyundai Plans $6.7 Billion Investment to Boost Fuel-Cell Output

  • Date: 11-12-18
  • Category: FUEL CELLS
  • Source: Bloomberg

Hyundai Motor Group and its suppliers plan to spend of 7.6 trillion won ($6.7 billion) through 2030 to raise production of fuel cells by more than 200-fold as the South Korean automaker targets to become a key player in the new-energy vehicle technology.

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AUTO SALES: India light vehicle sales update

  • Date: 10-12-18
  • Category: AUTO SALES
  • Source: LMC Auto

In spite of the festival season just starting, India’s Light Vehicle (LV) wholesales in September dipped by 1% year-on-year (YoY) to 349k units. Although this is not a huge drop, it marks the first YoY decline in 15 months.

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