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

Resilinc

In India, the national Production Linked Incentive (PLI) is set to encourage domestic EV manufacturing—and this is just a glimpse of the latest policies worldwide. Challenges and Opportunities Recent developments in the lithium industry have presented a mix of challenges and opportunities. Mining lithium is a challenging task, though.

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Relatively Cautious Global Production and Supply Chain Indices for February 2022

Supply Chain Matters

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights February global manufacturing and supply chain indices and challenges relative to product demand and supply network imbalance levels in the first quarter of 2022. Morgan Global Manufacturing PMI® report, a composite index produced by J.P. The IHS Markit Manufacturing PMI™ reported a value of 57.3

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Freightera CEO Eric Beckwitt Receives Sustainability Award at Clean50 Summit in Toronto

Freightera

The award was presented at the Clean50 Summit in Toronto on Sept. Eric Beckwitt was born in California but had to flee with the family in 2003 to save his son, who suffered severe asthma in the Sierra Nevada foothills where the Beckwitt family lived. Eric was involved in conservation in the Sierra Nevada since an early age.

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Which Supply Chain Strategy Will Prevail in 2022?

Stord

The Three Types of Supply Chain Strategies Making Waves Today, we’re seeing businesses take creative approaches to increasing the resiliency of their supply chain, and these strategies boil down to three categories: changes to the way goods are manufactured, transported, and stored. Manufacturing changes tend to be the most challenging.

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From Model X to Project Titan: A Closer Look at the New Auto Manufacturing

Elementum

We take a look at how new vehicles are changing the manufacturing game. With its new gigafactory centralizing the manufacturing process, Tesla Motors is one of the largest automotive employer in California. Other automotive manufacturers have announced their intentions of developing their own electric cars. Source: PC-Tablet.

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Will Self-Driving Trucks Minimize Accidents?

GTG Technology Group

Daimler placed the world’s first licensed self-driving truck on the roads of Nevada in spring 2015. Software glitches and hardware malfunctioning could present real concerns on the roadways of the future. One thing is certain – truck manufacturers are working on implementing the technology sooner rather than later.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 4-8, 2015)

Talking Logistics

“We are supporting mobile connectivity for our clients and their carrier partners, allowing updates to come directly from the source that is performing the activities and removing several layers that are present today in EDI or manual processes ”.