Bus Association: the passenger car market can still look forward to in December. Volkswagen signs lithium supply agreement with Australian lithium dealer Vulcan.

Published: Dec 9, 2021 10:03
Source: SMM
[12.9 Lithium Express] Renault and Stellantis Volkswagen also signed lithium supply agreements with Australian lithium manufacturer Vulcan. Bao Tuobang Co., Ltd.: subsidiary plans to invest 5 billion yuan in lithium battery project Di Sheng Li: the first phase production line of Guangdong Weima, a holding subsidiary, has entered normal production operation. The global planned production capacity of Honeycomb Energy in 2025 is 600GWh to promote the global shortening of products. The passenger car market sales fell 12.5% in November compared with the same period last year. Ride Association: the market can still look forward to in December. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released the forty-ninth batch of tax-free new energy vehicle catalogues BYD Tang and Xiaopeng.

[following Renault and Stellantis Volkswagen also signed a lithium supply agreement with Australian lithium company Vulcan] according to foreign media reports, Australian lithium supplier Vulcan Energy Resources recently launched an environmentally friendly lithium hydroxide for electric vehicle batteries. Vulcan said in a statement on December 8th that it had reached a binding five-year lithium supply agreement with Volkswagen to deliver lithium hydroxide to Volkswagen from 2026, but the company did not provide further details of the contract. "View details

In order to expand the scale of lithium battery production, Shenzhen Tuobang Lithium Battery Co., Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of the company, plans to set up a new company in Nantong to build a lithium battery project and purchase the original Hanhua new energy plant that has completed infrastructure construction, which will be used to build square aluminum shell cells, soft package cells, large cylindrical cells and battery PACK production lines. The total investment of the project is 5 billion yuan, which will be implemented in three phases, with a total investment of 1.6 billion yuan in the first phase. In addition, Tuobang shares won the bid for lithium iron phosphate battery products for power backup of China Tower in 2021, with a winning bid of about 241 million yuan (excluding tax).

[Dishengli: the first phase of the production line of Guangdong Weima, a holding subsidiary, has entered normal production operation] Dishengli issued a stock price change announcement, and the company holds a 55% stake in Guangdong Weima, a holding subsidiary. Guangdong Weima's main business is new energy waste lithium battery recovery, treatment and resource recycling and other related business. Up to now, the first phase of Guangdong Weima production line has entered the normal production operation. The company's entry into the new energy waste lithium battery recycling industry is relatively short, the relevant production and operation management still needs to be strengthened, market fluctuations still exist, there are still some risks.

[honeycomb Energy 2025 global planning capacity 600GWh to promote global short knife] on December 8, Honeycomb Energy released the leading bee "600" strategy and four major supporting strategies for 2025, announcing that the company's global capacity planning target for 2025 will be raised to 600GWh. at the same time, a new series of short knife batteries will be launched in the product, and the electric global short knife will be implemented in the future.

[passenger car market sales fell 12.5% year-on-year in November: December market can still look forward to] on December 8, the passenger car federation released data showing that retail sales in the broad passenger car market in November were 1.845 million, down 12.5% from a year earlier and an increase of 6.2% from the previous month. "the darkest moment of automotive chip supply in the third quarter has passed. It was expected that the improvement in chip supply would lead to a return to the November level of last year, with a real month-on-month increase of about 14 per cent, but it has not yet returned to last year's level, and the bottleneck of supply opacity is still there. "View details

[the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released the forty-ninth batch of tax-free new energy vehicle catalogues BYD Tang and Xiaopeng P5 in the list] December 8, The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced the catalogue of recommended models for the promotion and application of new energy vehicles (the 11th batch in 2021) and the catalogue of energy-saving new energy vehicles enjoying vehicle and vessel tax relief approved by the State Administration of Taxation (33rd batch) and vehicle purchase tax-exempt new energy vehicle catalogue (49th batch). Among them, in the forty-ninth batch of tax-free new energy model catalogue, BYD Tang, Xiaopeng P5 and other models are impressively listed. "View details

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