article thumbnail

Commodities Used in Electric Car Batteries: An Update on Lithium and Nickel

Resilinc

And importantly, The EU’s new series of proposed targets and reforms, contained in its Green Deal Industrial Plan, aims to ensure that at least 40% of the EU’s low-carbon technologies will be made within its borders by 2030. Mining lithium is a challenging task, though. To produce one ton of lithium requires 2.2

Alloy 58
article thumbnail

Tesla’s Audacious Growth Plans Unveiled Including New Production Plant

Supply Chain Matters

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights global EV automaker Tesla ’s investor event held this week including product development, supply chain and production related connotations. Supply Chain Matters recently highlighted an announced incremental $3.6 Tesla sold and delivered upwards of 1.3

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Achieve the Environmentally Sustainable Supply Chain Consumers Demand

Logility

Environmental sustainability in the supply chain is top of mind for consumers, and a brand that fails to hold itself responsible risks reputational damage that will affect the bottom line. . There are six goals for environmental supply chain sustainability: Reducing energy consumption. Improving waste.

article thumbnail

This Week in Logistics News (July 30 – August 5)

Logistics Viewpoints

Supply chain disruptions continue to lead to product shortages around the world. The ongoing pandemic-induced supply chain disruptions, along with the Russia-Ukraine war, limited available supplies of cocoa, edible oil, and other food ingredients. Walmart launches new restored goods program.

article thumbnail

This Week in Logistics News (March 4 – 10)

Logistics Viewpoints

Actually, when looking a bit closer at the numbers, supply pressures actually fell below normal. The February reading in the New York Fed’s Global Supply Chain Pressure Index was -0.26, reaching negative territory for the first time since August 2019. And now on to this week’s logistics news. and the U.S.

Logistics 213
article thumbnail

This Week in Logistics News (August 28 – September 3)

Logistics Viewpoints

Walmart to add 20,000 supply chain employees. Speaking of the holiday season, Walmart is planning to add 20,000 supply chain employees ahead of the anticipated holiday rush. The average wage for a supply chain associate is $20.37 Both facilities will be located in Southern Nevada. billion in 2020.

article thumbnail

EPA, White House in Talks to Push BEV Targets Back

QAD

At the heart of this transition is President Joe Biden’s vision to foster a domestically centered BEV supply chain, as propelled by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The comparison to China’s influence over battery materials being greater than OPECs over oil underscores the strategic importance of diversifying supply chains.