Towards the lithium-ion battery production network: Thinking beyond mineral supply chains

Bridge, Gavin; Faigen, Erika

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2022.102659

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“…A shift to public transit to lower emissions would not only deeply affect consumer patterns but also labor’s dependence on spatial configurations defined by said patterns. Moreover, a change to electric vehicles will modify work conditions in the automobile industry (Barthel et al, 2010; Krzywdzinski, 2020) and elicit a new international division of labor and competition across new global production networks around battery production (see Bridge and Faigen (2022) on the geographies of battery production). Geographers’ analytical tools and concepts such as labor agency and scale can add new insights into these clean energy landscapes.…”

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The case for an environmental labor geography: The role of organized labor in the climate crisis

Kleinheisterkamp-González

2023

Progress in Human Geography

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Geographers have increasingly studied labor and climate change, albeit not in a unitary field. I propose to address this by outlining an environmental labor geography – that draws from labor geography’s tenets. Moreover, I agree with other scholars that organized worker-led mass movements will be key to solving the climate crisis. Thus, I argue that labor agency is a useful tool that centers workers’ actions. However, to derive useful generalizations for struggles on the ground, the concept should be delimited to organized expressions of agency. Finally, I examine past and present conversion debates as cases of interest in ELG.

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The case for an environmental labor geography: The role of organized labor in the climate crisis

Kleinheisterkamp-González

2023

Progress in Human Geography

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“…In 2017, for example, China alone accounted for nearly half of renewable energy investment. In addition to the traditional 'big four' lithium companies (Albemarle, FMC, Tianqui Lithium, SQM), the lithium market today is primarily shaped and dominated by the entry of new Asian players (Bridge & Faigen, 2022). Thus, green colonialism and the reproduction of North-South relations are only one side of the coin.…”

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Green colonialism in Latin America? Towards a new research agenda for the global energy transition

Dorn

2022

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Drawing on various empirical examples (e.g. lithium, green hydrogen, REDD+), several studies point out that the global energy transition continues to be based on the geographic externalization of labour, natural resources, and sinks. The energy transition thus increases the pressure on natural resources in Latin America and reproduces the continent's position as the world's raw material supplier. This is increasingly referred to as 'green colonialism' by (scholar) activists. Moving past a merely provocative catchphrase, in this paper, I discuss the analytical implications and value of the term green colonialism for normative politicalecological research. In so doing, it becomes evident that the coloniality of the energy transition has to be understood as a political-epistemological project. This is of particular relevance for Latin America. Embedded in the hegemonic Euro-North American-centered modernity, the energy transition advances techno-optimist solutions and reproduces patterns of thought, knowledge and action. However, it soon becomes evident that the geographies of decarbonization are significantly more complex and shaped by multiple actors, policies, and strategies. Therefore, further research is needed on the geopolitics and geopolitical economy of the energy transition, going beyond the North-South dichotomy.

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“…According to studies, lack of awareness, financial benefits, and knowledge of vehicular technology contains a direct impact on the approval of EVs [47].…”

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Emerging Intelligent Bidirectional Charging Strategy Based on Recurrent Neural Network Accosting EMI and Temperature Effects for Electric Vehicle

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Transportation is currently advancing towards Electric Vehicle (EV) technology. This paper presents a brief and systematic analysis of the real-time issues obtained in Electric Vehicles (EVs) due to the various ranges of energy storage devices. In general, EV energy management system is integrated with power electronic circuits for effective power conversion and reliable operation. Some issues are addressed while using the batteries in EV systems such as charging time, efficiency of battery, and raw materials. Not only battery issues but also real-time non-technical issues and operational issues are also discussed in this paper. During energy conversion with power electronic circuits, the system attains extreme temperature levels which in turn reduces the performance of the system. To maintain an optimum temperature level, it is important to study the temperature effect of the system at the most prior levels. Due to the adaption of power electronic components, some extent of noise is generated, technically treated as Electromagnetic Interference (EMI), as system capacity increases the EMI content also improved proportionately. Therefore, to mitigate the EMI effect, the low pass filter-based EMI filter is introduced in the system such that the noise level is suppressed. Bidirectional Charging System (BCS) is one of the emerging technologies in EV to obtain autonomous power supply systems in the form of Vehicle to Grid (V2G), Grid to Vehicle (G2V), and Vehicle to Load (V2L). To know the behaviour of BCS the proposed RNN controller is employed and is compared with ANN bidirectional charging model. BCS charging system with RNN controller has better dynamic response to exchange the power via DC/DC converter and AC/DC converter as compared to ANN controller.

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Towards the lithium-ion battery production network: Thinking beyond mineral supply chains

Cited by 98 publications

References 81 publications

The case for an environmental labor geography: The role of organized labor in the climate crisis

The case for an environmental labor geography: The role of organized labor in the climate crisis

Green colonialism in Latin America? Towards a new research agenda for the global energy transition

Emerging Intelligent Bidirectional Charging Strategy Based on Recurrent Neural Network Accosting EMI and Temperature Effects for Electric Vehicle

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