July13, 2010 (Investorideas.com mining stocks newswire) Investorideas.com and its mining portals present a Q&A interview on the topic of investing in Lithium with Guillermo Trias, the founder and managing partner of MC CAPITAL. MC CAPITAL is a Miami-based venture-stage investment management firm.

  

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1. Lithium batteries currently are used in cell phones and PC's and other applications - can you explain to investors the role lithium batteries will play with electric vehicles?

 

A: Mr. Guillermo Trias

Lithium ion batteries are becoming the best choice for electric vehicles, among other reasons, because lithium-ion stores three times the amount of energy and is much lighter than existing competing technologies.

 

 As of today, almost an insignificant amount of the lithium consumption in the market is used in batteries for cars. That being said, according to a recent study from the Boston Consulting Group, 26% of the new cards sold in 2020 (approx. 14 million cars) will have Lithium ion-batteries.  The market for electric car batteries in that year will be worth some 25 billion. This will be about triple the size of today’s entire lithium-ion-battery market used for laptops and cell phones.

 

How this will impact the overall market?

 

Competition for that buoyant market is already going on all along the industry value chain. A strong current of alliances and joint ventures is underway too.  Innovation is spreading and will continue to spread throughout the value chain. Also, the government will play an important role to ensure that companies employ battery and electric car technology.

 

 Q: Investorideas.com

 

6. For investors sitting on the fence in this market - can you hi-lite some of the driving forces (including the Electric Vehicle Deployment Act) in the short term that might motivate them to step in?   

 

A: Mr. Guillermo Trias

 

The Lithium market will develop rapidly over the next 10 years as a consequence of the critical importance that this metal has to the clean tech, automotive, and tech industries. As it did in the last few decades, Lithium will continue to be a key resource in traditional industrial processes and products, which include aluminum, glass/ceramics, grease, air-conditioning, etc. World demand has almost doubled in the past 10 years as have tonnage prices. While demand has dropped by about 10% due to the worldwide recession, it is now back on a strong growth track.

 

However, the really exciting role for lithium is its use in the renewable energy market. Starting in the 1990’s, lithium ion was developed as an energy storage material. It is lighter and with more storage capacity by a factor of than any other materials. Lithium will become critical for the development of highly efficient storage systems for clean technologies: 

- Batteries for electric vehicles and for the computer systems that control the vehicles.

- Batteries to store excess energy produced by wind, solar and water systems

- Batteries for computer control systems in residential homes to efficiently manage electric usage - the “Smart Grid”, which is now a national priority

 

Market demand will also be driven by the development of new environmental policies in highly populated countries in Asia. Countries like China or India have the opportunity to establish and implement the regulatory framework to force a massive adoption of the electric vehicle among their citizens, in order to overcome the huge environmental challenges that their polluted cities face.

 

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North Arrow Minerals Inc.

North Arrow Minerals Inc. (TSX-V: NAR) manages a diversified portfolio of lithium, gold, base metal, and diamond properties. North Arrow's exploration activities are conducted under the direction of an experienced management team that has a record of successful mineral deposit and mine discovery.

 

North Arrow's current focuses are its lithium and diamond projects. Lithium projects include the North Carolina (Beaverdam), Nunuvut (Torp) and Northwest Territories (Phoenix) projects. Diamond projects include the Northwest Territories (Lac de Gras) and Nunavut (Hammer) projects.

 

 

Rodinia Lithium Inc. - Lithium for a Green Future

 

Rodinia Lithium Inc. (TSX-V: RM) (OTCQX: RDNAF) is a Canadian mineral exploration company with a primary focus on lithium exploration and development in North and South America. The Company is positioned to capitalize on the expected increase in demand for lithium carbonate that is projected to result from the anticipated paradigm shift to mass adoption and use of key lithium applications like lithium-ion batteries as well as glass ceramics, greases, pharmaceuticals etc.

 

Rodinia is currently exploring its Clayton Valley project in Nevada, USA, which surrounds the only lithium-brine producer in North America, and its Diablillos project in Salta, Argentina.

 

 

Bio for Mr. Guillermo Trias:

 

Guillermo Trias is the founder and managing partner of MC CAPITAL, a Miami-based venture-stage investment management firm focused on business opportunities in Latin America.

 

A serial entrepreneur, in 2003 he founded SOLEX PARTNERS, the largest importer and distributor of foods & wines from Spain in the American Midwest headquartered in Chicago. In 2008 he led the merger of the company with an American distributor.

 

Prior to this, he was an investment banker with DEUTSCHE BANK in London and Madrid where he worked advising large European multinational corporations (Telefonica, Sidenor, etc.) in their acquisitions in Latin America. During his tenure at the bank, Guillermo was involved in Mergers & Acquisitions transactions involving clients in telecommunications, finance, consumer goods and other industries.

 

Guillermo has also worked with ABN AMRO in private equity investing, analyzing investment opportunities in different industries.

 

He holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management where he majored in Entrepreneurship, Marketing and Non-profit Management. He received a scholarship from CAJAMADRID, which financed 100% of its education in the US.

 

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