Türkiye Seek To Cooperate With China To Jointly Develop Rare Earth Elements Of Electric Vehicles

Gaishi Automobile News According to Bloomberg, Turkey is committed to cooperating with China to jointly minimize rare earth element mines. This potential partnership may make Turkey more attractive to Chinese electric vehicles and battery manufacturers.

People familiar with the matter said that the Turkish government has plans to send its energy ministerAlparslan Bayraktar led a delegation to China in October this year to further negotiate.Previously,Türkiye has officially applied to join the BRICS Group composed of emerging market countries such as China and Russia.

People familiar with the matter said that Turkey hopes that potential cooperation with China can encourage Chinese companies, including BYD, to produce batteries in Turkey.Recently, Turkey has just reached an agreement to produce electric vehicles in Turkey.

In response to the above reports, the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources of Turkey has refused to comment, and the Chinese Ministry of Commerce has not responded to the request for comment.

Last month, the Minister of Industry and Technology of TürkiyeFATIH KAcir said: We will continue to establish an industrial facility to make Turkey play an important role in global rare earth element supply chain.In fact, not only rare earths, Turkey wants to play an active role in the entire supply chain from raw materials to finished electric vehicles and batteries.

Two years ago, Türkiye in central AnatoliaBeylikova near Eskisehir discovered its so -called large amount of rare earth elements.The Ministry of Energy of Türkiye stated that it is planned to build a refined plant to process these raw materials.

It is reported that Türkiye expectsThe compounds discovered by Beylikova are refined into a single element that is as high as possible.At that time, the Global Times reported that this created opportunities for cooperation between China and Turkey.

In the pastIn 30 years, China has dominated the mining, especially the refining of rare earth.Rare earth consists of 17 elements, which can be used for wind turbine, military hardware and electric vehicles.

However, China's influence has caused more and more panic in the United States and the European Union, but foreign countries have strengthened a series of challenges in terms of strengthening rare earth and other key mineral replacement supplies, such as technical setbacks, regulatory delays, and social opposition.

The European Union has begun to impose tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles. Given that the Turkish and EU's taxation alliance agreement, BYD has signed an agreement to build a factory in Turkey.Türkiye also negotiated with Chery Motors, SAIC Group and Great Wall Motors.