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Volkswagen and PowerCo SE to search for a battery cell factory site in Canada

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The Volkswagen Group and its recently founded battery company PowerCo SE intend to rapidly expand their global battery business to North America. To that end, Volkswagen and the Canadian government have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to identify suitable sites for a battery cell factory in Canada.

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Automakers are shifting battery plant plans from Europe to the US. Does the European Commission have a solution?

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In my latest Charging Forward column, which appears in the current print issue of Charged , I wrote of “a pointless fight between the US and Europe over the Buy American provisions of the IRA/BIL,” and opined that “as the details of the new rules are worked out, they’ll surely be brought into harmony with existing free-trade agreements.”

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EV Metals Group clears the way to build a battery material processing plant in Saudi Arabia

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The EV Metals Group acquired the battery materials and technology business of Johnson Matthey in 2022. Now subsidiary EV Metals Arabia has advanced its plans to build a battery material processing plant in Saudi Arabia. Construction is scheduled to commence in Q3 of this year.

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Ascend Elements to open battery recycling facility in Georgia

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Battery recycling and manufacturing company Ascend Elements (formerly known as Battery Resourcers ) is planning to open a battery recycling plant in Georgia by August of 2022, where it will recycle lithium, cobalt and nickel. Source: Ascend Elements.

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Stellantis and Samsung SDI form JV to build battery plant in Indiana

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Stellantis and Samsung SDI have agreed to establish an EV battery manufacturing facility in Kokomo, Indiana. The new facility will supply battery modules for a range of vehicles produced at Stellantis’s North American assembly plants. Samsung SDI will apply its new PRiMX technology, which was unveiled at CES 2022 in January.

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John Deere, Kreisel to build EV batteries and chargers in North Carolina

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The new factory will expand production capacity of Kreisel Electric products to serve the off-highway market in North America. Kreisel, which John Deere acquired in 2022, produces battery technology for e-mobility and stationary systems as well as DC fast charging solutions.

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BASF consolidates business, will invest $5 billion in battery materials and recycling

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BASF , a producer of cathode active materials (CAM), plans to consolidate some of its business into a new legal entity called BASF Automotive Catalysts and Recycling beginning in January of 2022. billion ($5 billion) in battery materials and recycling. BASF also plans to expand its CAM manufacturing in Asia, Europe and North America.

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