Above photo: Nina Djukanović. And The Making Of An Extractivist Frontier. Perhaps more than any other material, lithium has, in recent years, been increasingly presented as the silver bullet for the so-called twin transition —the digital and the green transitions. Lithium is essential to most conventional batteries used in diverse …
Elsewhere in the region tracked by Balkan Green Energy News, battery storage startup ElevenEs said last week that its manufacturing facility in neighboring Serbia is fully operational. In Turkey, TOGG and Chinese battery manufacturer Farasis are building a plant for batteries for the electric car manufacturer''s T10X model.
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The Ultra Balkans Project is a joint venture between Ultra Lithium Inc. (95%) and Beijing Guofang Mining Investment Co., Ltd. ("BGMI") (5%). BGMI has the right to earn up to a 35% interest in Ultra Balkans by funding up to $3,500,000 of exploration expenditures on the Ultra Balkans Project.
"We have one clear demand — a law which should forbid exploring borate and lithium," activist Savo Manojlovic of the Kreni-Promeni, or Go-Change, group told The Associated Press. Used in batteries for electric cars, lithium is considered one of the most sought-after metals of the future as the world shifts to more renewable energy sources.
Lithium fever in Serbia. Illustration: Igor Vujcic. Sasa Dragojlo. Belgrade. BIRN. April 13, 2022 07:01. Serbia pulled the plug this year on a $2.4 billion lithium mining project. Here''s how it...
The interest in developing lithium deposits in the Western Balkans is part of a wider push to exploit the mineral across Europe. Demand for the world''s lightest metal, lithium, is forecast to grow strongly in the coming decade as car manufacturers ramp up production of electric vehicles (EVs). Europe is...
WESTERN BALKANS LITHIUM-ION BATTERY RECYCLING Ireland''s Greenhouse partners with Serbia''s Metalfer to build Lithium-ion Battery Recycling Plant First to deploy clean tech recycling of electric ...
The interest in developing lithium deposits in the Western Balkans is part of a wider push to exploit the mineral across Europe. Demand for the world''s lightest …
Serbia''s lithium mining project in Jadar has been on hold because of mass protests against feared environmental damage. Now the EU wants to secure this lithium …
Denying the significance of lithium for the implementation of the green energy transition based on the claim that "there is nothing of paramount importance because the Chinese have already made cars with sodium-ion batteries" is yet another attempt to mislead the readers of Al Jazeera Balkans. Sodium-ion batteries are not an alternative …
Serbia has vast lithium deposits near the western city of Loznica, where a mining project run by the Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto has been developed. Lithium is a strategically valuable metal crucial for making electric vehicle batteries, making it key for helping Germany''s flagship automotive sector shift to greener production.
Lithium—a neoliberal extractive industry based on the sale of lithium salts—is expected to play a leading role in this transformation as a vital component of batteries, but is a lithium-based future better? The view from the Salar de Atacama salt flat in Chile—the world''s largest and purest active source of lithium—suggests otherwise.
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Slovakia''s Maroš Šefčovič, the EU''s commissioner for interinstitutional relations and foresight, has set a target for the EU to become the world''s second-largest producer of lithium batteries after China by 2025. The EU currently sources almost all its battery-grade lithium from outside Europe and needs to diversify its supplier base.
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For electric vehicle batteries and energy storage, the EU would need up to 18 times more lithium and 5 times more cobalt in 2030, and almost 60 times more lithium and 15 times more cobalt in 2050, compared to the current supply to the whole EU economy. If not addressed, this increase in demand may lead to supply issues.
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will visit Serbia later this week to discuss a tentative deal with the Balkan country for the …
In the presence of Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Serbia and the European Union signed a strategic partnership agreement on sustainable raw materials, …
Rio Tinto has said Serbia''s the Loznica mine could produce an estimated 58,000 tonnes of lithium annually, enough to make batteries for 1.1 million electric …
A proposed lithium mine in Serbia is spurring protests over its potential impact on the environment. The mineral is in high demand because it''s crucial for the batteries that run electric ...
And that''s one of the smallest batteries on the market: BMW''s i3 has a 42 kWh battery, Mercedes''s upcoming EQC crossover will have a 80 kWh battery, and Audi''s e-tron will come in at 95 kWh. With …
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Lithium is a strategically valuable metal crucial for making electric vehicle batteries, making it key for helping Germany''s flagship automotive sector shift to greener production. ... The Foundation „Euro-Atlantic Horizons for the Western Balkans" (EAHWB) was founded in 2024 as a non-profit and nongovernmental association of citizens ...
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