Electricity made in Germany

31. Januar 2022

• Renews

In Germany, the main industries are emerging around electric power: On the upper Rhine grab, Vulcan Energy is building the climate-neutral promotion of lithium and a pilot plant is created in the black pump for the production of aluminium oxide.

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It's movement into the car market . Last year, the number of new approvals of pure electric cars increased In Germany, to about 356,000, as the figures of the Statistics Federal Office show. In 2020, it was about 194,000. The approvals for Hybrid vehicles even 754,600 (2021). With the number of electric cars on German roads are also growing the pan-European market. A market that now new companies also call for new companies, which are mainly in the field of battery production want to secure their share and develop exciting technologies.

One of these companies is Vulcan Energywhich is prescribed to lithium production for batteries has. With a procedure called Deep othermia and a lithium brine source, Europe's largest lithium in German Upper Rhine Valley is used. The during the production of the Zero Carbon Lithium Earth heat will also be used for electricity and heat production.

In contrast to the promotion of hard rock or in a evaporation basics need the zero carbon lithium much less water and does not meet CO₂ from. Only in January did Vw With vulcan energy to a withdrawal agreement over five years. This agreement becomes our Zero Carbon Lithium TM project an important Factor for Volkswagen's world leading target, CO₂free Producing electric vehicles, including all raw materials in the Battery supply chain“, says Dr. Francis Wedin, CEO of Vulcan.

Also with a view to the production of batteries also works The Australian company Altech Industries. In the Old Pump in the Lausitz plans the company to produce aluminium oxide for batteries. With the The coating of lithium ion batteries is intended to range of electric cars up to 1,300 kilometres can be increased.

The battery production itself also draws companies from a wide variety of regions of the world: In addition to Tesla in Green heide, there are CATL planning in Erfurt, Stellantis with Daimler and Total in Kaiserslautern, Gotion in Göttingen and Farasis in Bitterfeld – by only a few to name. Similarly, the number of people in Germany is also increasing installed Load columnsA total of 25,868 charger columns for 1 January 2022 were Electrical vehicles that go through the Federal Network Agency's display procedure had.