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ZeroHedge:

Summarizing The "Long Dollar Trade" In One Chart

With the USD experiencing its longest stretch of weekly gains since Bretton Woods, it appears, as SocGen notes, that recent currency movements have triggered nostalgia of the pre-crisis world when dollar strength was synonymous with a prosperous global economy. However, given the extreme positioning and potential for policy-maker complacency, SocGen warns the paradox is thus that a strong dollar tantrum could be a more worrying scenario than a Fed tightening tantrum. Read more on ZeroHedge."

Trees never grow all the way up into the sky, but sometimes for a while it seems just like this.

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And who is buying Gold now:

In Gold We Trust @KoosJansen.

TNR Gold Shotgun: NOVAGOLD Reports Major Progress in Advancing Donlin Gold up the Value Chain.

  "We have the major news for Alaska Gold mining industry from our neighbours - Donlin Gold is moving forward! NOVAGOLD and TNR Gold were developing Shotgun Gold project together and in 2010 our company has consolidated the project and now owns 100% of it. NOVAGOLD has received TNR Gold's shares and warrants. Greg Johnson - one of the founders of NOVAGOLD has joined TNR Gold board after our very impressive results from the drilling program in the Fall 2012. Please watch the video to find out his personal statement:

"The mineralization style observed at Shotgun Ridge bears a strong resemblance to the 40 million ounce deposit at the Donlin Gold project operated by Barrick and NovaGold," stated recently appointed director Greg Johnson, "The similar age and host intrusive rocks suggest that, with continued exploration, there is significant potential to locate larger volumes of mineralization in and around Shotgun Ridge."

  This development by NOVAGOLD will put Alaska back on the radar screens of Gold investors as the safe mining jurisdiction and stronger Gold prices will drive the next stage of projects development. Please read my legal disclaimer. Read more."

TNR Gold Shotgun Gold Presentation, Alaska - April 2014 from Kirill Klip

Lithium Race: LG Dominating Electric Car Lithium Batteries Market.

  While we are discussing a lot of groundbreaking developments with Tesla Gigafactory, Asian players are taking the largest auto-market in China by storm. Korean companies are taking over the Japanese battery makers in China now. LG Chem has announced its own plans to build its Megafactory in Nanjing and has signed a few very important contracts with Chinese automakers, including the largest one - SAIC.

  China is already the leading force in the lithium materials production. Our strategic partner - one of the  top world-wide lithium  materials producer - Ganfeng Lithium now moves into Lithium Battery market by acquiring lithium battery maker in China. 

China Rolls Out Welcome Mat for Electric Cars: Ganfeng Lithium Partners with International Lithium in Argentina and Ireland.

International Lithium Presentation September 2014 from Kirill Klip

International Lithium: Ganfeng Lithium Acquisition of Lithium Battery Company To Build The Vertically Integrated Industry Chain.

  

  "I have the public report from China to share with you today. Our strategic partner Ganfeng Lithium has announced this week the major acquisition in China in order to build The Vertically Integrated Lithium Battery Business. It is the very exciting time for Electric Cars with Elon Musk giving this market another ignition with his Open Source move. Mobile Devices is another very fast growing market and I am looking forward that our Lithium projects will deliver the further confirmation of their economic potential to become in the future the raw materials supply base for this Vertically Integrated Lithium Industry Chain.

  Please read carefully my legal disclaimer and Do Not rely on any information provided here in your investment decisions. This information, particularly provided from the third parties, could be incomplete, misleading and not up to date. Always consult your qualified investment adviser before making any decisions. You can find more information on our website: International Lithium Corp. Read more."

   

International Lithium: Presentation Of Our Strategic Partner - Ganfeng Lithium May 2014 from Kirill Klip

LG Chem Megafactory Will Produce Lithium Batteries For More Than 100k EVs A Year In Nanjing.

  

  "LG Chem makes its move in China with its own Megafactory for Lithium Batteries in response to the Tesla Motors Gigafactory and its ambitious plans to ignite the Electric rEvolution. Now we can talk about the real prospects for the mass market for electric cars. Increased Volume in production of Lithium Batteries for Electric Cars will allow to reduce the prices per 1 kWN and increase the reliability and capacity of the batteries making "The Range Anxiety" another myth fading into the history.

  Nissan Leaf has announced that new Lithium Battery for Nissan Leaf will cost $5,500 bringing the cost per 1 kWh to $270 in the new breakthrough for the Lithium Technology.Elon Musk is talking about Lithium Batteries to be produced at Gigafactory with 400 miles range for Tesla Model S and X and $35,000 price tag for Tesla model E with 200 miles range.  Maybe now my dream for The Electric Apple iCar will not be so far fetched after all? For International Lithium this news is an another validation of our strategy of Vertical Integration with Ganfeng Lithium into the Lithium Battery Business in China. Read more."

Powered By Lithium: Meet STRATI - The First 3D Printed Electric Car From Local Motors.

  Who will be the first to tap into Elon Musk "Open Source For Electric Cars"? Is it the way Foxconn  can go with Tesla for its $15k Electric Car to be built in China? I am speculating here, but 3D technology brings totally new perception for at least the urban mobility. 

  I can easily envision the power-train supplied by Tesla with lithium batteries from its Gigafactory, standardised safety frame to meet the necessary safety requirements and everything else can be really customised in this case.

  We can talk about the solution for the urban mobility at least and if the range can reach 150 miles - we can have the real game changer. Mass volume production will be the key here, but these dreams can be much closer to reality, than a lot of people think.  

  Lithium Technology meets 3D printing - it can be really interesting. You can find more information about Local Motors here.

China Rolls Out Welcome Mat for Electric Cars: Ganfeng Lithium Partners with International Lithium in Argentina and Ireland.

International Lithium Presentation September 2014 from Kirill Klip

Will We See Electric Car For $15k? Foxconn to Invest 5 Billion Yuan in Its Shanxi Factories.

  

  "We have very interesting report today from Bloomberg on Foxconn. It is all the same web: electric cars, China, Tesla and Apple. Will we see electric car for $15k produced by Foxconn in China after all? Today we get one step closer to this groundbreaking development for the mass market for electric cars.

  China moves very fast now to fight the air pollution and ignite the next industrial revolution. This collaboration with Tesla will allow it to acquire the latest technology in electric cars space. Lithium batteries and materials are already the very important foundation for this advance being built in China right now. Read more."

Climate Change: We Have The Solution - Lithium Technology For Electric Cars Is Here.

AutoBlogGreen.

  Sebastian Blanco reports on the biggest climate march ever spanning the globe and I continue to discuss with you that lithium technology to save us all is already here.

Electric Cars and Lithium Race: China to take action on Climate Change.

"Now you can see the confirmation of Chinese strategy to combat the air pollution and climate change. Electric cars are made the strategic industry and lithium supply is the matter of state level planning.   Companies like Tesla Motors and Daimler will provide the lithium based technology and local manufacturing base will take it to the masses. Still under the radar screens of a lot of investors, China become the powerhouse for lithium industry starting with lithium materials and moving fast into lithium batteries and electric cars. Read more."

International Lithium And Ganfeng Lithium: Avalonia Lithium Project, Ireland.

  "Recent world-wide public awareness about the climate change and lithium technology advance demonstrated by Tesla Motors, present to us the unique opportunity to capitalise on this trends advancing the development of lithium supply chain. The largest world auto-market is based now in China. The Chinese Premier has announced the war on pollution and electric cars are at the forefront of this development. Our strategic partnership with Ganfeng Lithium opens the doors for our company to participate in these global development in electrification of our transportation. Read more."

International Lithium Presentation September 2014 from Kirill Klip

China Rolls Out Welcome Mat for Electric Cars: Ganfeng Lithium Partners with International Lithium in Argentina and Ireland.

AutoBlogGreen:

Biggest climate change march in NYC feels like something even bigger

Is it just us, or did something happen at that 2014 United Nations Climate Summit in New York City this week? The largest-ever climate change march took place in the city and the headlines were full of interesting items, from the famous oil family the Rockefellers divesting their charity from fossil fuels toGoogle telling ALEC goodbye over climate change lies. World leaders from wildly different countries gave speeches detailing what they plan to do on the issue of climate change. US president Obama said today that, "the climate is changing faster than our efforts to address it," and said that the US recognizes its role in creating the problem (see a video of his speech below). 

"The climate is changing faster than our efforts to address it." – President Obama 

Now, we know that climate change and automobiles are connected. That's not news. Still, the march and Summit let the Diesel Technology Forum take advantage of the moment to say that diesel vehicles can be a "key solution" in working to minimize climate change. We haven't heard anything specific from any of the major automakers tied in to the Summit, but that's par for the course. Still, there have been numerous announcements and reams of data issued this week. All important, of course, but sometimes doing all this reading about climate change just can't prepare you for seeing it in person.Now, we've seen lots of activists in the streets before and we've seen world leaders and powerful organizations (like, say, the Pentagon) issue dire warnings and promise action, but there's something about the discussion regarding climate change this week that feels different than it has before. So, we ask again, it is just us, or did something just happen? Read more on AutoBlogGreen"

Future Technology: Cars, Lithium Batteries and Hydrogen.

  To know the future let's study the history. The time of controlled explosions under the hood driving our cars has come and gone. Now it is time for electrification, when thanks to lithium technology you can store enough energy produced somewhere else on the cost effective industrial scale basis ideally  from the renewable sources. We can produce, transmit and now store energy in the form of electricity in the most efficient way compare to other forms.

Electric Cars Vs Hydrogen: There Are Just 12 Public Hydrogen Stations in the United States.

  

  "I continue my research into Hydrogen and Electric Cars. Technically Hydrogen cars are electric as well, instead of only storing energy in the lithium battery you have the small energy producing plan on board called Hydrogen fuel cell. You can sense the trouble already - the full energy cycle has a very low efficiency as the chat above shows. After further research you will realise that Hydrogen cars are the same EVs with the fuel cell range extender, Lithium battery is still needed for the specific power compensation and regenerative breaking.

  Hydrogen is the future ... and will always be. Electric cars are already here and pouring onto our streets in numbers now, Hydrogen based are still just a few prototypes with total lack of infrastructure. Tesla Superchargers will allow 98% of US population to cross the country from coast to coast by 2015. We have sun and wind with other alternative energy to power all our electric cars theoretically, where the Hydrogen will come from? The reports show that the cheap natural gas is the only answer here and it meansFracking in US and UK - so much for the green part of this dream and its sustainability. Apart from huge lost of energy in the full cycle, we will stay with the same old boys from the big oil who is behind this push. No energy security, no distributed energy generation, just the same old needle provided by the same people.

  Hydrogen will be viable as the additional source of energy once its economics improves, but why distract the attention now instead of focusing on electric cars available lithium technology? This is what Elon Musk at Tesla and China are doing now. Tesla Gigafactory will bring even more reliable, cheaper lithium batteries to power EVs with Tesla Model S and X reaching 400 miles range. It will allow to build Tesla Model III - 35k electric car with 200 miles range to ignite the mass market. Read more."

China Rolls Out Welcome Mat for Electric Cars: Ganfeng Lithium Partners with International Lithium in Argentina and Ireland.

International Lithium And Ganfeng Lithium: Avalonia Lithium Project, Ireland.

International Lithium Presentation September 2014 from Kirill Klip

Tesla Gigafactory: "Elon Musk Can Convert the Unthinkable Into Reality."

  

  Governor of Nevada Brian Sandoval has put it all in one sentence: "Elon Musk Can Convert The Unthinkable Into Reality." This Gigafactory will allow Tesla to produce the mass volume electric car. Tesla Model III is promised to be priced at $35k and will have 200 miles range. Tesla Model S and X will have 400 miles range with the new lithium batteries made at Gigafactory.

  It will be the largest lithium battery factory in the world and will alone produce more batteries than all lithium battery makers have produced last year all over the world.

  

All You Need To Know About Tesla's Nevada Lithium Batteries Gigafactory.

  

  "The deal of the century or at least its first decade for electric cars is signed by Elon Musk. Gigafactory will open the doors for the mass market for electric cars and $35k Tesla Model III will be the first one rolling out. I will provide links in addition to the report by Damon Lavrinc so that you can get the full picture of this groundbreaking development for our industry. Read more."

China Rolls Out Welcome Mat for Electric Cars: Ganfeng Lithium Partners with International Lithium in Argentina and Ireland.

Elon Musk With Tesla Gigafactory Starts The Race To Secure Supply Of Lithium Batteries And Lithium.

International Lithium Presentation September 2014 from Kirill Klip

Tesla's Elon Musk Expects 'Hundreds' Of Gigafactories As Lithium Battery Production For EVs Triples In Three Years.

Lithium Batteries Gigafactory: Why Morgan Stanley Is Betting That Tesla Will Kill Your Power Company

Tesla Battery Gigafactory, Lithium Materials Industry And Lithium Miners.

  

The Largest Ever Lithium Deal: Tesla Gigafactory, Smartphones And China's Race To Electric rEvolution.

Electric rEvolution: Elon Musk Goes Open Source - Opens Tesla's Electric Cars Patents To All.

GreenTechGrid:

The Local and Global Impact of Tesla’s Giga Factory.

Tesla CTO on Energy Storage: ‘We Should All Be Thinking Bigger’

Lithium Race: Germany Proposes Free Parking to Spur Electric-Car Sales.

  

  Now electric cars are getting more and more geopolitical significance and, actually, already have become the matter of national energy security. Germany has banned fracking and depends on Oil and Gas import as no other industrial country. Solar and other alternative sources of energy are developing very fast in Germany and electric cars with distributed lithium storage facilities can be integrated into the smart grid.

  Latest developments are very positive for electric cars and can ignite the manufacturing renaissance in Europe.

Powered By Lithium: Electric Car - Documentary on Advanced Electric Vehicles in Germany.

"BMW i3 is outselling Tesla Model S in US now, Mercedes B was rolled out and Audi is making the whole line of its own electric cars. German auto-makers are ego to get into the largest auto-market in the world as well. Daimler and BYD J/V has produced DENZA electric car and BMW has its own J/V partnership ion the country.  Germany is already the very important market for our strategic partner Ganfeng Lithium. Our Avalonia Lithium project in Ireland will bring potential source of lithium close to the heart of manufacturing base in Europe. Read more."

International Lithium And Ganfeng Lithium: Avalonia Lithium Project, Ireland.

  "Recent world-wide public awareness about the climate change and lithium technology advance demonstrated by Tesla Motors, present to us the unique opportunity to capitalise on this trends advancing the development of lithium supply chain. The largest world auto-market is based now in China. The Chinese Premier has announced the war on pollution and electric cars are at the forefront of this development. Our strategic partnership with Ganfeng Lithium opens the doors for our company to participate in these global development in electrification of our transportation. Read more."

International Lithium Presentation September 2014 from Kirill Klip

Bloomberg:

Germany Proposes Free Parking to Spur Electric-Car Sales

"Germany is offering electric-car buyers the prospect of free parking as Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government seeks to boost demand for the vehicles.

The German cabinet today backed a bill that would enable municipalities to offer drivers of battery-powered cars, fuel cell vehicles and some plug-in hybrids privileges including parking and the right to use bus lanes, the Environment Ministry said today in an e-mailed statement.

“Electric cars will get their own labels so they’re recognizable to everyone,” Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt said in the statement. “Sales will rise amid an increasing selection of electric models and a growing number of e-cars on the roads.”

Germany, the focal point of the European auto industry, has set a goal of having 1 million electric vehicles on its roads by 2020, from about 21,000 at the start of the year. The goal is aimed at underscoring the country’s prowess in auto manufacturing as well as reducing greenhouse gas emissions to meet climate-protection targets.

Transport, which accounts for about 16 percent of the country’s carbon-dioxide emissions, generated about 140 million metric tons of CO2 in 2012, from about 161 million tons in 2001.

The measures “can boost electric mobility,” Matthias Wissmann, president of the VDA auto industry group, said today in an e-mailed statement. The rules have to take effect quickly and apply nationally to convince customers, he said. Read more on Bloomberg."