Accelerating the route to lower emissions
Supporting the transportation industry's commitment to reducing emissions
The transportation industry is at a crossroads. To achieve emission reduction goals while continuing its vital role in getting people and goods where they need to go, the sector must innovate and evolve.
For passenger vehicles, ExxonMobil offers a range of products — including lightweight materials, advanced lubricants and fuels, electric vehicle lubricants, and critical elements like lithium — that help drive down emissions.
The commercial transportation industry, however, faces some unique hurdles on the path to reducing emissions. Heavy-duty trucks, aircraft and vessels require significant energy to get from point A to point B, making them a challenge to power with electricity, wind or solar. Instead, they require alternative fuel sources with high energy density. These fuel sources also must be consistently available and economically viable for customers that are making the switch from conventional to low-emission fuels.
Given these complex challenges, no single technology can get us to net zero.
Supporting our customers
ExxonMobil provides a comprehensive mix of low-carbon energy products and solutions to support you on your path to a lower-emission future.
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How we're different: Practical solutions for heavy-duty transportation
Low Carbon Solutions is focused on delivering practical solutions to the commercial transportation sector that are lower-carbon alternatives to today's conventional fuels. Developed over decades of research, testing and technological breakthroughs, these products include hydrogen and lithium. The team is committed to ensuring these solutions are scalable to help you meet your energy transition goals. Here's what makes us different:
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1. End-to-end approach
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3. Agile solutions
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4. Robust analysis
We look at the challenge from every angle, supporting our approach through robust technical and economic analysis.
More efficient, environmentally friendly lithium to meet EV targets
To address the auto industry's growing demand for lithium – a critical component of electric vehicle batteries – our team is developing an innovative production process that extracts the critical mineral from subsurface brine while minimizing emissions and environmental impact. Leveraging our decades-long relationships with auto manufacturers, we aim to consistently supply the growing EV market with sustainable, reliable and localized lithium volumes.
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Lithium pathway
Deep lithium-rich brines: Around the world some underground rock formations contain lithium-rich brine. Our existing capabilities in geoscience, reservoir engineering, drilling and production operations enable us to target the most advantaged brines and efficiently bring them to the surface to be processed.
Direct Lithium Extraction: Using Direct Lithium Extraction – a less carbon intensive method of production than hard rock mining1 – we’re safely tapping into these sources to separate the lithium from brine. We then upgrade the lithium to battery-grade material. The process requires expertise in geoscience, reservoir engineering, chemical processing, and drilling and production – all areas ExxonMobil has decades of experience executing.
Electric vehicle (EV) batteries: We’re helping to meet our customers’ growing demand for lithium, a critical component of electronic vehicle (EV) batteries.
Passenger car: In the first half of the 2030's, we aim to produce enough lithium to supply the manufacturing needs of about 1 million EVs a year.
Lower emissions: Direct Lithium Extraction technology is shown to have lower carbon intensity compared to traditional mining methods. By providing a more reliable, less carbon intensive source of lithium for EVs, we strengthen the role of EVs in reducing transportation emissions.
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“We want to lead the way when it comes to ensuring our customers have the right tools to achieve their emissions reduction goals.”
Mark Klewpatinond
Global Business Manager, Hydrogen
ExxonMobil Low Carbon Solutions
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Mark Klewpatinond
Global Business Manager, Hydrogen
ExxonMobil Low Carbon Solutions
Solutions
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Carbon capture and storage
Technologies like carbon capture and storage are critical to help accelerate the world’s path to net zero.
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Hydrogen
Alternative fuel solutions for power generation and industrial clients, as well as low-carbon transportation fuel.
FOOTNOTES:
- Expected smaller footprint of lithium mining and expected lower carbon and water impacts: EM analysis of external sources and third party life-cycle analyses. a) Vulcan Energy, 2022 https://v-er.eu/app/uploads/2023/11/LCA.pdf, Minviro publication. Grant, A., Deak, D., & Pell, R.(2020). b) The CO2 Impact of the 2020s Battery Quality Lithium Hydroxide Supply Chain-Jade Cove Partners. https://www.jadecove.com/research/liohco2impact. Kelly, J. C., Wang, M., Dai, Q., & Winjobi, O. (2021). c) Energy, greenhouse gas, and water life cycle analysis of lithium carbonate and lithium hydroxide monohydrate from brine and ore resources and their use in lithium ion battery cathodes and lithium ion batteries. Resources, Conservation and Recycling,174, 105762.