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H&T Recharge to supply EV battery cylindrical cans to Panasonic Energy

Charged

There’s more to a lithium-ion battery cell than a handful of lithium in a little metal can. Battery supplier Panasonic Energy has signed a long-term agreement with H&T Recharge, a German battery component manufacturer, for the supply of battery cans in North America.

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Kiwi Power Looks to Bring European Virtual Power Plant Expertise to North America

GreenTechMedia

More recently, it’s added 80 megawatts of behind-the-meter batteries to its virtual power plant portfolio. Kiwi is far from the only European company targeting distributed energy market opportunities in North America. French energy giant EDF’s North American renewables subsidiary has acquired U.S.

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There’s gold (and lithium and cobalt) in all those EV battery packs

The Verge: Energy

Here’s how Redwood Materials is putting recycling at the heart of the burgeoning battery belt. There’s a bit of a battery manufacturing boom going on. In 2021, battery manufacturing in the United States totaled approximately 55 gigawatt-hours’ worth of cells, or roughly enough batteries to produce 700,000 EVs.

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Webinar: How Canada Can Become a Global Battery Powerhouse 

Clean Energy Canada

Batteries are evolving. No longer just something that needs changing in your TV remote, batteries are fast becoming the engines of the global economy. In a decade’s time, a battery will likely power your car or the electricity grid that lights your home. Perhaps the biggest opportunity lies in electric vehicles. Andrew Miller.

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Lucid Air demonstrates 500-mile range

Charged

The tests were conducted by FEV North America in Auburn Hills, Michigan, using the EPA’s Multicycle Test procedure. As John Voelcker writes in IEEE Spectrum , the Air has gone through several rounds of improvement since its original unveiling in 2017. Lucid hasn’t specified the size, but the 2017 prototype had a 130 kWh pack.

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Davids and Goliaths Need Each Other More than Ever

Greentown Labs

However, Cemvita , a Greentown member based in Houston that was founded in 2017, discovered a way to create an SAF that uses specially engineered microbes that convert carbon dioxide into clean fuel, making it more reliable, sustainable, and (critically) scalable than traditional alternatives.

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Keep your eyes on these 9 electric truck and van companies in 2021

GreenBiz

These new vehicles are quickly bumping up against familiar challenges of battery range, production capacity and charging, or fueling, infrastructure. delivered its 100th battery-electric truck in the U.S BYD delivered its 100th battery-electric truck in the U.S BYD delivered its 100th battery-electric truck in the U.S