{"id":152356,"date":"2021-03-30T12:53:26","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T10:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/?p=152356"},"modified":"2021-03-31T09:18:15","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T07:18:15","slug":"bmw-se-abastecera-de-litio-de-livent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/2021\/03\/30\/bmw-to-source-lithium-from-livent\/","title":{"rendered":"BMW se abastecer\u00e1 de litio de Livent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A partir del pr\u00f3ximo a\u00f1o, el Grupo BMW comprar\u00e1 litio a un segundo proveedor, la empresa estadounidense Livent. El volumen del contrato plurianual asciende a unos 285 millones de euros. Livent suministrar\u00e1 el litio directamente a los fabricantes de c\u00e9lulas de bater\u00edas del Grupo BMW.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A finales de 2019, BMW ya hab\u00eda firmado un contrato para <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/2019\/12\/11\/bmw-compra-litio-por-valor-de-540-millones-de-euros-en-australia\/\">comprar litio de los llamados yacimientos de roca dura de las minas australianas<\/a>. Ahora la empresa est\u00e1 ampliando su base de proveedores y tambi\u00e9n se abastece de litio en Argentina, donde la materia prima se extrae de la salmuera de los lagos salados. Seg\u00fan BMW, Livent utiliza un proceso innovador que garantiza el uso sostenible del agua y minimiza el impacto sobre los ecosistemas y las comunidades locales.<\/p>\n<p>Sin embargo, los socios no revelan cu\u00e1ntos a\u00f1os durar\u00e1 el contrato ni qu\u00e9 cantidades de litio se han acordado. Andreas Wendt, miembro del Consejo de Administraci\u00f3n de BMW AG responsable de Compras y Red de Proveedores, se limita a declarar: \"El litio es una de las materias primas clave para la electromovilidad. Al abastecernos de litio de un segundo proveedor, estamos asegurando las necesidades para la producci\u00f3n de nuestra actual quinta generaci\u00f3n de c\u00e9lulas de bater\u00eda. Al mismo tiempo, nos estamos haciendo tecnol\u00f3gica, geogr\u00e1fica y geopol\u00edticamente menos dependientes de proveedores individuales.\"<\/p>\n<p>En concreto, BMW se abastece actualmente de <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/2018\/09\/30\/bmw-firma-un-acuerdo-con-ganfeng-lithium\/\">hidr\u00f3xido de litio extra\u00eddo en Australia de Ganfeng Lithium<\/a>, basado en un contrato de cinco a\u00f1os (2020 - 2024) firmado en 2019 con un volumen previsto de 540 millones de euros. As\u00ed que ahora llega un contrato con el productor de litio Livent, con sede en Filadelfia. BMW compra materias primas cr\u00edticas para las bater\u00edas, como el litio y el cobalto, directamente a los productores de materias primas por razones de transparencia, aunque la empresa automovil\u00edstica no fabrique ella misma las celdas de las bater\u00edas. Las materias primas compradas van a parar a los proveedores de c\u00e9lulas de bater\u00eda de BMW, como <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\/\">CATL y Samsung SDI<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A partir del pr\u00f3ximo a\u00f1o, el Grupo BMW comprar\u00e1 litio a un segundo proveedor, la empresa estadounidense Livent. El volumen del contrato plurianual es de unos 285<\/p>","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":152318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9927],"tags":[10055,10230,13682,56,9961,4391,21780,13169,13946],"class_list":["post-152356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-battery-fuel-cell","tag-argentina","tag-batteries","tag-battery-cells","tag-bmw","tag-germany","tag-lithium","tag-livent","tag-raw-materials","tag-suppliers"],"acf":{"inhalt_teil2":"<p>Livent obtains the lithium from a brine plant in the north of Argentina. The salt lakes in the triangle of countries between Argentina, Bolivia and Chile are known to hold about half of the global lithium deposits. According to BMW, Livent uses its own process for lithium mining, in which &#8220;most of the brine used is returned directly to the surrounding habitat and does not evaporate&#8221;. In this way, the balance between the brine layers and the groundwater layers is maintained as far as possible. &#8220;Solvents and other chemicals do not come into contact with the environment during this process. It also takes up much less space, since evaporation basins are barely used,&#8221; the car manufacturer explains.<\/p>\n<p>In its statement, BMW also points out that it was the first car manufacturer worldwide to join the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA) at the beginning of 2020. It also says Livent has now become a provisional member of the initiative on the recommendation of the BMW Group and has committed to being assessed against the IRMA standard. &#8220;Livent is the first company with mining operations in Argentina to have made this commitment, and one of the first lithium mining companies in the world to do so,&#8221; the car company emphasises.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/2020\/11\/06\/tesla-extends-lithium-supply-contract-with-livent\/\">Livent also supplies Tesla with lithium<\/a>. In November, the existing contract was extended until 2021. In the course of this, the lithium producer has committed to providing Tesla with higher quantities than in 2020. Exact volumes of the agreement were not named, however.<\/p>\n<p>Livent also announced a few months ago that it would join the Canadian Nemaska lithium project as part of a consortium. This would give Livent access to more resources to supply its customers with larger quantities of lithium hydroxide. However, there are also risks at Nemaska, according to an earlier report by the trade portal Mining.com, the operating costs there are quite high, and mining is complex in the weather conditions. In 2019, Nemaska was $300 million above its calculated operating costs and subsequently had to file for bankruptcy.<\/p>\n<p><em>With reporting by Cora Werwitzke, France.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.press.bmwgroup.com\/global\/article\/detail\/T0328669EN\/bmw-group-steps-up-sustainable-sourcing-of-lithium-for-battery-cell-production-to-ensure-rapid-e-mobility-expansion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bmwgroup.com<\/a><\/p>\n"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152356","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=152356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}