Charged

JULY 5, 2022

Stellantis and LG Energy Solution have named their new joint venture battery company NextStar Energy, and have appointed Danies Lee as CEO. billion in setting up production, NextStar Energy will begin constructing a lithium-ion battery production plant in Windsor, Ontario later in 2022.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Exxon Mobil is targeting a different segment of the EV ecosystem—the oil giant has announced plans to set up a lithium production facility in Arkansas. Be that as it may, Exxon has the expertise and the capital to become a major player as the industry scrambles to establish sources of lithium in North America.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

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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Charged

JANUARY 17, 2023

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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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 15, 2023

But will lithium follow that same trend? Last year saw lithium prices soar due to increased demand for lithium-ion batteries as well as supply chain impacts due to the Covid-19 pandemic. In February 2022, battery-grade lithium carbonate soared to $72,000 per metric ton, which was nine times higher than the 2020 price.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 23, 2022

billion) investment in a cylindrical battery plant. It is said to be the first-ever cylindrical-type battery manufacturing plant in North America. The Korean battery manufacturer will be the cylindrical battery plant’s sole investor. Construction is to begin in the second quarter of 2022.

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TechCrunch: Climate

AUGUST 17, 2023

Ford is partnering with South Korean battery manufacturers SK On and EcoPro BM to build a cathode manufacturing facility in Quebec, Canada. billion (USD $890 million) joint investment will provide battery materials to supply future Ford electric vehicles. The onshoring of battery factories in the U.S. The CAD $1.2

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Charged

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Redwood Materials , the battery recycling company founded by Tesla co-founder JB Straubel, is focused on two of the most critical battery components: cathode active materials (CAM) and anode copper foil. Redwood and Toyota began working together to build a closed-loop battery ecosystem in 2022.

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Greentown Labs

JULY 27, 2022

Cleartrace announced a $20M financing round , from several strategic investors, including Greentown partner EDF Energy North America. Energy Dome closed an $11M convertible round to accelerate the commercial development of its CO 2 battery. Department of Energy’s Battery Recycling Prize. Awards + Recognition.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Li-Cycle has announced plans to build a fourth commercial battery recycling facility in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Univar Solutions will be an anchor battery feed supply customer for the new facility. It is projected to commence operations by 2022. The company’s Gilbert, Arizona facility is still under construction.

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Greentown Labs

DECEMBER 14, 2022

When the history books tell the story of how society took climate action to decarbonize our economy and build a cleaner world for society, 2022 will have a headlining role in that narrative! And we couldn’t be more proud of our 200 members’ hard work and accomplishments throughout 2022. Partnerships + Deployments.

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 26, 2022

American Battery Technology Company was awarded a $57M Department of Energy grant to build a $115M, first-of-kind commercial-scale facility to manufacture battery-grade lithium hydroxide from Nevada-based sedimentary resources. Kanin Energy CEO Janice Tran was selected for the 2022 Mária Telkes Fellowship Cohort.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The startup aims to boost the North American battery supply chain by producing an iron-based cathode. Iron-based battery chemistries have long dominated the market in China, while US and European automakers have mostly used nickel-based chemistries. We see the same happening right now.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Battery materials company Euro Manganese has announced that pilot plant samples of its HPEMM manganese metal have been validated as feedstock for battery cathode specialist Nano One ’s One-Pot and M2CAM cathode production technologies. We look forward to commissioning our larger demonstration plant at our Chvaletice site in Q4 2022.”.

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The Verge: Energy

APRIL 18, 2024

GM has been teasing its new home energy products for months , including a home EV charger and vehicle-to-home (V2H) kit that enables a home to pull energy from an EV battery in the event of a blackout. GM launched GM Energy , its energy spinoff, in 2022 as a way to compete in the rapidly expanding home energy market.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

First Cobalt is expanding its plans to provide battery-grade nickel and cobalt, recycled battery materials and precursor material to the North American supply chain. First Cobalt is also changing its name to Electra Battery Materials. The company has also been testing black mass feeds from recycled batteries.

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Charged

MAY 21, 2021

Li-Cycle, the developer of a novel battery recycling system , has announced an agreement with Ultium Cells, a joint venture of GM and LG Energy Solution, to recycle up to 100% of the scrap generated by battery cell manufacturing at Ultium’s Lordstown, Ohio mega-factory. When fully operational in 2022, the $2.3-billion

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Early-adopting EV buyers seem likely to be a little more knowledgeable, and Tesla is taking the unprecedented step of giving buyers a choice between two alternative battery chemistries. LFP-based batteries have been the norm in the Chinese EV industry for years. I have a Model 3 on order and just got this about 10 minutes ago.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Digital transparency company Everledger has launched what they tout as a world-first battery passport pilot with automotive manufacturer Ford Motor Company to ensure responsible recycling of EV batteries. EV battery tracking. EV battery visibility.

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Charged

AUGUST 5, 2022

LG Chem and GM have announced a binding agreement for the supply of cathode active material (CAM), a key battery material consisting of processed nickel, lithium and other materials that represents about 40% of the cost of a battery cell. Source: LG Chem.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

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. October 12, 2022, at 8am PT / 11am ET (1 hour). Register here.

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Charged

MAY 27, 2021

Ford has boosted its planned EV investment by more than a third—it now expects to spend more than $30 billion on electrification, including battery development, by 2030, and aims to increase pure EV sales to 40 percent of its global volume by 2030. Ford hopes to cut battery costs by 40 percent by 2025.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

They sat silently next to the 2022 GMC Hummer EV revealed a few weeks ago, a vehicle whose audaciousness is meant to reset the image of EVs among U.S. Fully 40 percent of the models GM sells by the end of 2025 will be battery-electric, she said. General Motors is already at work on the next evolution of its Ultium battery cells.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Refining the circular economy for battery materials. Increasing the efficiency of recycling offers a way to “close the loop,” creating a circular supply chain that can provide the needed raw materials for batteries and other components and minimizing the need to expand the world’s mining operations.

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Clean Energy Canada

JULY 13, 2023

Lifecycle emissions commonly include emissions from mineral sourcing like mining or recycling, mineral processing, vehicle and battery manufacturing, car use and, in some cases, disposal and recycling at end of life. Many automakers, like Tesla , Ford , and General Motors , are investing in battery materials recycling.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 15, 2022

New, grid-scale battery projects may be the best available solution to this problem. Grid operators can integrate massive batteries or a CAES system to increase capacity to support the grid. Honeywell announced last year that it had developed a new flow battery for long-duration ESS. The Department of Energy has secured $1.16

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2022

US and Japanese car firms step up collaboration on battery technology and manufacturing development in bid to drive down cost of EVs. First established as a battery firm in 1995, BYD - which stands for Build Your Dreams - has expanded to become the biggest EV manufacturer in China, which is also the world's biggest EV market.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 18, 2019

To begin the climb, the Italian utility group is committing half of its annual investments for the period 2020-2022 to the build-out of 14.1 Former SolarReserve CEO Kevin Smith joined as Lightsource BP's CEO for Americas this year. Its North America pipeline of projects in development or construction now stands at 3 gigawatts.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

million – To develop, design and construct two stand-alone energy storage systems and perform field demonstrations of a six-hour zinc hybrid cathode energy storage system in New York City to help demonstrate that zinc hybrid technology is economically competitive with lithium-ion. Proposals will be accepted through October 17, 2022.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

Reports: Tesla breaks ground on $375m lithium factory in South Texas. Tesla's plans for a new $375m lithium factory in Corpus Christi, South Texas, appear to be progressing, with signs of construction preparation having been reported at the site. Zimbabwe bans lithium exports to crack down on artisanal miners.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

AUGUST 17, 2023

Lithium produced at Hell’s Kitchen will support Stellantis vehicles’ battery electric vehicle (BEV) eligibility for consumer incentives under the U.S. This new agreement incorporates the original lithium supply agreement signed by both companies in June 2022 for up to 25,000 metric tons of LHM per year.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 5, 2022

ESS, manufacturer of long-duration iron flow batteries for commercial and utility-scale energy storage applications, released the brief in partnership with Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions (CRES) Forum and the United States Energy Association (USEA). In August 2022, energy generation within CAISO emitted approximately 233mTCO2/GWh.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Department of Energy (US DOE) has published the results of a study done by the Lawrence Berkey National Laboratory quantifying the domestic lithium resources from the geothermal brine in the Salton Sea region in California. resource of lithium due to the brine-hosted lithium in the deep subsurface geothermal reservoir.

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CleanTech San Diego

AUGUST 21, 2023

and Cleantech San Diego member Controlled Thermal Resources (CTR) announced a major investment of over $100 million from Stellantis to advance the development of CTR’s Hell’s Kitchen project, the world’s largest geothermal lithium project with a total resource capacity to produce up to 300,000 metric tons of lithium carbonate equivalent each year.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Department of Energy (DOE) has announced the winning teams of the first-ever American-Made Geothermal Lithium Extraction Prize. The three teams will split a total of USD 2 million for prototyped innovations to directly extract lithium from geothermal brine. jobs and a strong domestic supply chain.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Redwood Materials , the battery recycling venture founded by former Tesla CTO JB Straubel, came out of stealth mode last year, and announced that it is recycling scrap from Panasonic’s battery cell production at Tesla’s Gigafactory Nevada. In July, it raised $700 million in new investment.

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Mr. Sustainability

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Tesla’s success could spill over into adjacent transport sectors Summary - Using Tesla’s announcements of Battery Day, DNV expects the cost of batteries to be reduced by 56% (measured in $/kWh) by 2025. In North America, Europe and China this will take place well before 2030. Tesla Battery Day event finally happened.

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