{"id":124563,"date":"2019-12-11T18:57:13","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T17:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/?p=124563"},"modified":"2021-11-02T14:10:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T13:10:48","slug":"bmw-compra-litio-por-valor-de-540-millones-de-euros-en-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/2019\/12\/11\/bmw-buys-540-million-euros-worth-of-lithium-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"BMW compra litio por valor de 540 millones de euros en Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>El Grupo BMW acaba de firmar un contrato de suministro con Ganfeng Lithium, con sede en Jiangxi (China), por un volumen previsto de 540 millones de euros para el suministro de hidr\u00f3xido de litio destinado a las celdas de las bater\u00edas. El litio se extraer\u00e1 en Australia y las entregas comenzar\u00e1n el a\u00f1o que viene.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>El fabricante de autom\u00f3viles pretende cubrir el 100% de sus necesidades de hidr\u00f3xido de litio para sus bater\u00edas de quinta generaci\u00f3n. La duraci\u00f3n del contrato es de cinco a\u00f1os (2020 - 2024). El litio de Ganfeng se extrae mediante miner\u00eda de los llamados yacimientos de roca dura en Australia, donde seg\u00fan BMW se aplican \"los m\u00e1s altos est\u00e1ndares en materia de sostenibilidad\".<\/p>\n<p>Con el cambio a la quinta generaci\u00f3n de propulsores el\u00e9ctricos, BMW tambi\u00e9n se enfrenta a una <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/2019\/10\/21\/bmw-esta-cambiando-su-estrategia-de-recursos\/\">cambio de paradigma en su pol\u00edtica de compras<\/a>: a partir de 2020, la empresa muniquesa comprar\u00e1 las dos materias primas cr\u00edticas - cobalto y litio - directamente a las minas. Para el cobalto, esto significar\u00e1 minas en<a href=\"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/2019\/04\/24\/bmw-se-abastecera-de-cobalto-en-australia-y-marruecos\/\"> Marruecos y Australia<\/a>, en el caso del litio, esto significar\u00e1 de nuevo abastecerse de la \"tierra de abajo\". A continuaci\u00f3n, BMW pone estas materias primas a disposici\u00f3n de los proveedores de c\u00e9lulas para que las utilicen en las c\u00e9lulas de BMW. En noviembre reci\u00e9n pasado, BMW <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/2019\/11\/21\/bmw-esta-comprando-baterias-por-valor-de-miles-de-millones-a-catl-y-samsung-sdi\/\">realiz\u00f3 importantes pedidos a CATL y Samsung SDI<\/a> para este fin. BMW espera que esto proporcione la mayor transparencia posible en cuanto al origen de las materias primas y garantice as\u00ed el cumplimiento de las normas medioambientales y los derechos humanos.<\/p>\n<p>\"Junto con el cobalto, el litio es una de las materias primas clave para la electromovilidad. Con la firma de este contrato, aseguramos nuestras necesidades de litio para las celdas de las bater\u00edas\", afirma el Director de Compras de BMW, Andreas Wendt, seg\u00fan el comunicado de prensa del fabricante de autom\u00f3viles. \"La sostenibilidad es un aspecto importante de nuestra estrategia corporativa y desempe\u00f1a un papel central en la expansi\u00f3n de la electromovilidad. Somos plenamente conscientes de nuestras responsabilidades: El litio y otras materias primas deben extraerse y procesarse en condiciones \u00e9ticamente responsables\". promete Wendt.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El Grupo BMW acaba de firmar un contrato de suministro con Ganfeng Lithium, con sede en Jiangxi (China), por un volumen previsto de 540 millones de euros para el suministro de litio<\/p>","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":118911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9927],"tags":[10374,10230,13682,10914,56,98,16008,9961,4391,16009,13169,13946],"class_list":["post-124563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-battery-fuel-cell","tag-australia","tag-batteries","tag-battery-cells","tag-battery-production","tag-bmw","tag-china","tag-ganfeng-lithium","tag-germany","tag-lithium","tag-lithium-hydroxide","tag-raw-materials","tag-suppliers"],"acf":{"inhalt_teil2":"<p>Demand will continue to rise, and by 2023 BMW plans to have 25 electrified models with various sizes of lithium-ion batteries on offer. Wendt expects lithium use to increase sevenfold by 2025 \u2013 at BMW alone.<\/p>\n<p>BMW itself does not manufacture any cells on an industrial scale and does not have any, as BMW CEO Oliver Zipse emphasised at the opening of the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/2019\/11\/14\/bmw-opens-battery-competence-centre-in-munich\/\">Battery Cell Competence Centre<\/a>&#8221; in November. &#8220;It is not important to produce the cell yourself,&#8221; said Zipse at the time. &#8220;It&#8217;s essential to know what you want from the supplier,&#8221; said Zipse. That&#8217;s why BMW is researching cells and their production, technology and format. Together with a supplier, the cells are then made ready for series production and industrially manufactured for BMW.<\/p>\n<p>Zipse expects that an established market for automotive battery cells will develop in the coming years, as has happened with other components. Zipse refers, for example, to turbochargers for combustion engines, which no carmaker produces itself. In the long run, however, he does not want to rule out producing battery cells themselves: &#8220;If it should become necessary one day, we will be able to react&#8221;. Wendt made a similar statement in the current (German) press release: &#8220;Whether we will produce the cells in series at a later point in time depends largely on the development of the supplier market&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>At the opening of the Research Centre, Peter Zisch, who is one of the people responsible for purchasing lithium and cobalt at the Group, justified BMW&#8217;s decision in favour of lithium from Australia based on mining methods, among other things. &#8220;The lithium is extracted from the stone there using much less water than, for example, lithium mining in Latin America,&#8221; says Zisch. However, BMW does not want to completely rule out the possibility of obtaining this vital material from Latin America. &#8220;We have looked at a great many mines in the region, some of which are very sustainable in their use of water. So it&#8217;s not just the mining area or the land that counts, but even the specific mine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.press.bmwgroup.com\/global\/article\/detail\/T0303684EN\/securing-raw-material-supplies-for-battery-cells:-bmw-group-signs-supply-contract-with-ganfeng-for-sustainable-lithium-from-mines-in-australia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bmwgroup.com<\/a><\/p>\n"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}