BMW To Stop Purchasing Congo Cobalt In 2020/21

BMW To Stop Purchasing Congo Cobalt In 2020/21. The news agency Reuters reported on the development. For this reason as part of its corporate due diligence the BMW Group is actively taking responsibility and participating in local projects based on the principle of empowerment before withdrawal.

Therefore the BMW Group aspires to achieve the greatest possible transparency in its battery supply chain in order to continue in future to obtain cobalt from. CO2 emissions reduced by 17 in BMW iX Wendt. Cobalt for Development project started trainings for mining cooperatives in Kolwezi Democratic Republic of Congo The cross-industry initiative Cobalt for Development has.

BMW to Buy Cobalt From Morocco Instead of Congo to Prevent Child Labor Morocco is the 12th-biggest cobalt exporting country with 2081 metric tons produced in 2016.

After Andreas Wendt the Board Member responsible for purchasing recently announced that BMW will no longer purchase cobalt from Congo for the introduction of the fifth generation of electric vehicles from 202021 it is now clear that the raw material will instead come from Australia and Morocco. Andreas Wendt BMW board member responsible for procurement told a briefing in Paris that the new supply of cobalt would be used in the carmakers next generation of EVs in 2020. Cobalt is an essential requirement for a powerful battery in an electric vehicle. BMW promised to make sure it uses only sustainably-sourced cobalt in its cars and in order to do that it signed only certain partners as providers partners that.