VW Turns into Buyer of Lithium Developer Vulcan

Vulcan Vitality Assets added Volkswagen as a buyer for the developer’s lithium hydroxide for automotive batteries, Reuters stories.

The settlement has an preliminary time period of 5 years and business supply is scheduled to start in 2026.  

Volkswagen plans to construct six battery cell crops by 2030 in a bid to turn out to be the highest vendor of EVs on this planet. 

Vulcan additionally has lithium provide offers with automakers Stellantis and Renault. 

Vulcan makes use of geothermal vitality to extract its lithium from Germany’s Higher Rhine Valley area. 

Thought-about environment-friendly, the German-Austrian firm says its extraction of lithium makes use of much less vitality, land and groundwater than brine evaporation ponds and open-pit mines.