El productor de litio Livent dice que ha ampliado su contrato de suministro con Tesla hasta 2021. Tesla quiere que Livent suministre mayores cantidades que en 2020 y una nueva mina de litio va a ayudar en este sentido, pero est\u00e1 plagada de riesgos.<\/p>\n
La noticia se conoci\u00f3 en el marco de los resultados del tercer trimestre de Livent, que no facilit\u00f3 los vol\u00famenes exactos del acuerdo. El comunicado habla de una pr\u00f3rroga de un a\u00f1o y Livent a\u00f1adi\u00f3 que estaba discutiendo el marco para una asociaci\u00f3n de suministro a largo plazo con Tesla m\u00e1s all\u00e1 de 2021.<\/p>\n
Al mismo tiempo, el productor de litio con sede en Filadelfia tambi\u00e9n anunci\u00f3 su intenci\u00f3n de unirse a un proyecto canadiense de litio como parte de un consorcio con el objetivo de adquirir Nemaska Lithium Inc. (\"New Nemaska\") . Esto dar\u00eda a Livent acceso a recursos adicionales para suministrar mayores cantidades de hidr\u00f3xido de litio a sus clientes. Hasta ahora, Livent se abastec\u00eda de litio en una planta de salmuera del norte de Argentina.<\/p>\n
Sin embargo, tambi\u00e9n existen riesgos en Nemaska. Seg\u00fan el portal especializado Miner\u00eda.com<\/em>, los costes de explotaci\u00f3n son bastante elevados debido tambi\u00e9n a la compleja explotaci\u00f3n minera en condiciones clim\u00e1ticas adversas. En 2019, Nemaska estaba 300 millones de d\u00f3lares por encima de los costes de explotaci\u00f3n calculados y, como consecuencia, tuvo que declararse en quiebra. La empresa hab\u00eda suministrado anteriormente hidr\u00f3xido de litio a LG Chem.<\/p>\n Livent tampoco fue rentable en el \u00faltimo trimestre, a pesar de la creciente demanda de litio. En los resultados, Livent menciona la debilidad sostenida de los precios del litio, que hab\u00eda obligado a muchos promotores y productores a aplazar o cancelar nuevos proyectos y ampliaciones, creando una escasez potencial de materiales de litio aptos para bater\u00edas en los pr\u00f3ximos a\u00f1os.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" El productor de litio Livent dice que ha ampliado su contrato de suministro con Tesla hasta 2021. Tesla quiere que Livent le proporcione mayores cantidades que en 2020 y una nueva<\/p>","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":93225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9927],"tags":[10230,4391,21780,14673,13169,13946,509],"class_list":["post-143217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-battery-fuel-cell","tag-batteries","tag-lithium","tag-livent","tag-nemaska","tag-raw-materials","tag-suppliers","tag-tesla"],"acf":{"inhalt_teil2":" At the same time, “We continue to see evidence that demand for lithium compounds will accelerate in 2021 and beyond, with growing support for electrification from OEMs, governments and consumers, despite significant disruptions in 2020,” said Paul Graves, president and chief executive officer of Livent.<\/p>\n With quarterly revenues of $72.6 million, the company recorded a GAAP net loss of $11.8 million. “Third quarter results reflected the continuation of difficult market conditions for both Livent and the lithium industry as a whole, as global supply chains remain disrupted as a result of COVID-19,” the company states. Still, Livent’s third-quarter revenues were higher than in the second quarter due to an increase in lithium hydroxide volumes.<\/p>\n At Tesla, there will certainly be no shortage of demand and other raw materials as they gear up to deliver half a million electric cars this year. The company has begun sourcing as locally as possible and said as much on Battery Day<\/a> and subsequent earning calls. In North America, Giga Metal had been on the list of potential suppliers reportedly<\/a> with Brazil’s Vale mining company that followed suit to supply Nickel from a mine in Canada. Vale has nickel production facilities in three Canadian provinces. The Voisey’s Bay operation is to be converted to underground mining and will produce 40,000 tonnes of nickel concentrate per year.<\/p>\n Elon Musk had repeatedly called for Nickel. At the same time, the Tesla boss put expectations into perspective, when adding that they “don\u2019t want to be constrained by nickel availability”. Instead, there\u2019s a three-tier approach with high nickel cells for the Semi and Cybertruck, with a 2\/3 nickel and 1\/3 manganese mix for “intermediate solutions,” that\u2019s cars and the lithium ion mix for stationary energy solutions like the Tesla Powerwalls.<\/p>\n livent.com<\/a>, teslarati.com<\/a><\/p>\n"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143217","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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}