{"id":134497,"date":"2020-06-16T16:34:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T14:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/?p=134497"},"modified":"2020-09-30T10:08:57","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T08:08:57","slug":"glencore-suministrara-cobalto-a-tesla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/2020\/06\/16\/glencore-to-supply-tesla-with-cobalt\/","title":{"rendered":"Glencore suministrar\u00e1 cobalto a Tesla"},"content":{"rendered":"

Al parecer, Glencore va a suministrar cobalto del Congo a la Gigafactor\u00eda de Tesla en Shangh\u00e1i y a la planta prevista en Brandeburgo. Un reciente art\u00edculo en el Financial Times<\/em> ya menciona cantidades concretas que se entregar\u00e1n a Tesla.<\/p>\n

El Financial Times<\/em> El informe se refiere a informaci\u00f3n privilegiada sobre el acuerdo entre Tesla y Glencore. Aunque Tesla utiliza menos cobalto en sus celdas de bater\u00edas que los fabricantes de coches el\u00e9ctricos de la competencia, el contrato con Glencore podr\u00eda cubrir hasta 6.000 toneladas al a\u00f1o. El cobalto para Tesla se extrae en la Rep\u00fablica Democr\u00e1tica del Congo.<\/p>\n

El alcance financiero del acuerdo no se menciona en el informe. Si se toman como base los 30.000 d\u00f3lares por tonelada de cobalto que menciona el informe, esto corresponder\u00eda a un volumen de 180 millones de d\u00f3lares anuales.<\/p>\n

Tesla declar\u00f3 la semana pasada, cuando se public\u00f3 el Informe de Impacto, que apoya el aprovisionamiento en la Rep\u00fablica Democr\u00e1tica del Congo, uno de los pa\u00edses m\u00e1s pobres del mundo, \"donde podemos estar seguros de que los minerales, incluido el cobalto, proceden de minas que cumplen nuestras normas sociales y medioambientales\".<\/p>\n

El gobierno local tambi\u00e9n est\u00e1 trabajando en ello endureciendo la normativa para la extracci\u00f3n de cobalto. Se va a extender al cobalto un sistema de certificaci\u00f3n destinado a frenar el trabajo infantil, las malas condiciones laborales y los da\u00f1os medioambientales. As\u00ed lo inform\u00f3 el Agencia Alemana de Prensa<\/em> (dpa<\/em>) en referencia al Instituto Federal de Geociencias y Recursos Naturales (BGR), que asesor\u00f3 al Ministerio de Miner\u00eda del Congo en el ensayo. Hasta finales de 2020, diez plantas ser\u00e1n auditadas seg\u00fan los nuevos requisitos, incluida una mina de cobalto.<\/p>\n

\"Queremos que s\u00f3lo los minerales extra\u00eddos en condiciones dignas puedan ser certificados y vendidos en el extranjero en nombre del Congo\", declar\u00f3 el ministro congole\u00f1o de Minas, Willy Kitobo. dpa<\/em>. El objetivo es que la extracci\u00f3n de materias primas \"deje de destruir la sociedad congole\u00f1a\".<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Al parecer, Glencore va a suministrar cobalto del Congo a la Gigafactor\u00eda de Tesla en Shangh\u00e1i y a la planta prevista en Brandeburgo. Un reciente art\u00edculo del Financial<\/p>","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":93271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9927],"tags":[10230,14746,98,13168,13383,9961,3203,15409,19081,14134,13169,3219,13946,509],"class_list":["post-134497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-battery-fuel-cell","tag-batteries","tag-brandenburg","tag-china","tag-cobalt","tag-congo","tag-germany","tag-gigafactory","tag-gigafactory-3","tag-gigafactory-4","tag-glencore","tag-raw-materials","tag-shanghai","tag-suppliers","tag-tesla"],"acf":{"inhalt_teil2":"

In the Impact Report, Tesla writes, among other things, that “considerable efforts have been made to set up processes” to eliminate the risk of child labour. “We recognise that responsible and ethical mining is an important part of the economic and social well-being of these communities,” Tesla said.<\/p>\n

By purchasing directly from Glencore, Tesla is able to trace the cobalt supply chain from the mine in the Congo, through raw materials, to installation in the vehicle. For similar reasons, BMW has also changed its strategy for purchasing raw materials<\/a>: In future, the Munich-based company will purchase critical materials such as lithium and cobalt itself. The company sources its cobalt from mines in Morocco and Australia<\/a> before making it available to its own cell suppliers. Unlike Tesla, the battery cells are not produced in-house.<\/p>\n

In March this year<\/a>, BMW initiated the organisation PartChain that uses blockchain technology to increase transparency in worldwide supply chains regarding raw materials and components. Interested companies were invited to join the initiative. BMW is not alone with the idea of a blockchain for supply chain transparency. Volvo<\/a> and Volkswagen<\/a> have also already presented their own projects to enable them to trace the sources of their cobalt precisely with the help of the blockchain.<\/p>\n

Cobalt from Glencore is used in many battery cells. Last December a deal for 30,000 tons of the material was announced with SK Innovation. In February, it became known that the Korean competitor Samsung SDI is also sourcing up to 21,000 tonnes of cobalt from Glencore’s industrial mining operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo.<\/p>\n

With additional reporting by Carrie Hampel<\/em><\/p>\n

ft.com<\/a> (paywall), heise.de<\/a>, automobilwoche.de<\/a> (both in German)<\/p>\n"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134497","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\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}