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.

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Charged

AUGUST 18, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced more than $192 million in additional financing for recycling consumer product batteries, forming an advanced battery R&D collaboration and continuing the 2019 Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling Prize. The Battery Recycling Prize launched in January 2019 has to date awarded $5.5

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Charged

JULY 22, 2021

BASF will build a prototype battery recycling plant in Schwarzheide, Germany, at the site of its existing cathode active materials plant. The new plant is expected to open in early 2023.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Battery recycling firm Li-Cycle expects to begin operating a battery recycling facility in Warren, Ohio in early 2023 as part of its hub-and-spoke model. Its output will be black mass—a powder-like substance composed of lithium, cobalt and nickel. Source: Li-Cycle.

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 23, 2023

PARTNERSHIPS + DEPLOYMENTS American Battery Technology Company (ABTC) started operating its lithium-ion battery recycling facility in Nevada. Greentown members Fervo Energy and Form Energy , alongside alum Sublime Systems , were named to MIT’s 2023 Climate Tech Companies to Watch.

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The Verge: Energy

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Illustration by Sisi Kim for The Verge Smarter tech and new recycling techniques might just mean our EVs get even greener. Here’s how Redwood Materials is putting recycling at the heart of the burgeoning battery belt. The solution, or part of it, might come from recycling. There’s a bit of a battery manufacturing boom going on.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Recycling company Elemental Holding has announced plans for a new facility to recycle batteries and other waste that contains precious metals, to be constructed in Zawiercie, Poland. The launch of the facility is planned for 2023. aw and Gliwice, as well as the ?ukasiewicz

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Charged

JANUARY 25, 2022

Primobius has reached an option and licensing agreement with Stelco Holdings to commercialize Primobius’s proprietary EV battery recycling and processing technologies in North America. Operations are expected to begin in 2023. Canada-based Stelco is a steelmaking company that supplies steel to automakers. Source: SMS group.

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CleanTech Group

JULY 11, 2023

Batteries in every form: Recycled lithium-ion for energy storage, battery swapping; alternative cement and alternative seafood – Recent deals worth looking at: Agriculture.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Plastics recycling, especially for mixed and contaminated plastics, remains a major pollution concern. At the same time but seemingly unrelatedly, we need more plentiful and sustainable sources of graphene (useful for everything from solar cells to battery storage) and graphite (a key component of lithium-ion batteries).

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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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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Department of Energy (DOE): a $57M contract for its first-of-kind, commercial-scale, lithium-hydroxide-manufacturing facility in Tonopah, NV, and a $20M contract to advance next-generation battery-recycling technologies. The post Greentown Labs Member Milestones — September 2023 first appeared on Greentown Labs.

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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. It is not only large auto manufacturers that can benefit from improved lifecycle management and verified claims of recycling.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 4, 2023

The EU is proposing a ban in 2026 and a ban in France is coming into force in December 2023. Single-use vapes are a particular bugbear – these are assembled as a single unit, so batteries can’t be separated easily from the plastic and they are almost impossible to recycle without going through special treatment.

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Greentown Labs

DECEMBER 19, 2023

In 2023, Greentown startups installed more than 1,000 EV chargers, secured plans to deliver up to 1 billion gallons of sustainable air fuel, kicked off production at the United States’ first rare-earth refinery, began operations at a geothermal plant in partnership with Google, and so much more.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Start-up picks North East as location for its plant as Business Secretary travels to region to visit site of planned lithium refinery plant. UK clean technology start-up Altilium has announced plans to build the "largest planned recycling facility" in the UK for end-of-life electric vehicle (EV) batteries at a site on Teesside.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Design for manufacturability (DFM) as well as design for serviceability and recyclability also have an inpact on cost. Design principles such as the commonization, consolidation, and deletion of components directly affect development time and cost. Reserve your spot—it’s free!

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Charged

AUGUST 12, 2022

Ascend Elements , a vertically integrated battery recycling and engineered materials company, has announced plans to invest $310 million in the first phase, and up to $1 billion total, to build a battery materials facility at the Commerce Industrial Park II in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. Source: Ascend Elements.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The company behind the UK's first battery gigafactory and mining giant Glencore have revealed they are are to partner on plans for a battery recycling facility in Kent that would be able to process 10,000 tonnes of lithium-ion batteries a year. Brocas added that the Kent recycling facility would help the UK reach its climate goals. "We

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Greentown Labs

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Next-generation battery recycling. These are just a few of the groundbreaking climate technologies showcased at Greentown Boston ’s 2023 Climatetech Summit, a gathering of hundreds of entrepreneurs, corporate leaders, investors, policymakers, and climate champions that took a multifaceted look at how to build a decarbonized, resilient future.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Meta-Headlines of 2023 As our beloved industry matures, our hope for when climate tech grows up is for it to “become boring.” Should we call 2023 the Year of IRA deployment? 💨 Private equity and O&G bet big on climate tech’s next frontiers: DAC and lithium. Not a subscriber yet?

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Energy Storage News

MARCH 19, 2024

Executives from Northvolt discussed the gigafactory company's ramp-up after a slow 2023 and how the company intends to be competitive in the global market, as well as cell technology, recycling, sourcing from China and an eventual IPO.

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 21, 2023

Eighteen startups joined our community in the first months of 2023, working on innovations as diverse as an ammonia-based energy system, sneakers made from food waste, and nano-filters that reduce energy consumption in chemical separations. This system has 5x higher system-level energy densities compared to lithium batteries.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Warnings of an impending shortage of key metals and minerals – including things like copper, nickel and lithium – have been forthcoming from a number of commmentators in recent months, including consultancy groups with an interest in the area, such as McKinsey. The plan also targets meeting at least 15% of annual consumption via recycling.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 22, 2024

Acknowledging that the world at the end of 2023 is an increasingly challenging one, Eric Dresselhuys of ESS Inc. The year 2023 was a record-setting year for investment and growth in clean energy, with the International Energy Agency projecting over 500GW of new renewable capacity to come online by year-end globally.

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Charged

MARCH 7, 2024

In hindsight, the move may have been premature— the new Ultium EVs that were supposed to replace the Bolt in GM’s lineup have been delayed, causing the company to post embarrassingly low EV sales figures for 2023. But fear not! A new and improved Bolt is in the works, and is due to appear in 2025.

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 28, 2023

In 2017, fewer than one per cent of new vehicle registrations in Canada were for EVs; by the third quarter of 2023, that figure was 13 per cent. We also have the sixth-largest proven reserves of lithium in the world, as well as significant amounts of other minerals that are critical in battery cell production, like nickel and cobalt.

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Charged

OCTOBER 16, 2021

A sustainable circular supply chain includes not only recycling batteries at the end of their lives, but also managing waste during manufacturing. The existing system for recycling scrap is extremely inefficient, often involving shipping materials back and forth between continents on carbon-belching ships.

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Charged

JANUARY 11, 2022

Chinese battery cell manufacturer Gotion High-Tech reports that it has agreed to supply 200 GWh of LFP battery cells to an unnamed “large US automaker” between 2023 and 2028. Well, there is a certain automaker that recently announced plans to phase in lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery cells for its Standard Range vehicles in the US.

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Greentown Labs

MAY 22, 2024

Funding Active Surfaces , a Go Build 2023 participant and ACCEL Year 1 alum that’s commercializing ultra-thin-film solar technology, raised a $5.6M American Battery Technology Company , a lithium resource exploration and development company, surpassed capacity at its commercial-scale lithium-ion battery recycling facility.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In May 2023, wind and solar produced more electricity than fossil fuels in the European Union for the first full month on record. For example, analysis from BloombergNEF shows a near-80% decline in lithium-ion battery prices over the last 10 years across applications ranging from vehicles to stationary storage. Looking ahead, the U.S.

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Greentown Labs

APRIL 24, 2024

Funding American Battery Technology Company —a startup with technologies for lithium-ion battery recycling, battery-metal extraction, and primary mineral resource development—was awarded $60M in tax credits to accelerate the construction of its next-generation battery recycling facility.

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Charged

AUGUST 16, 2022

OEMs and startups are also working diligently to develop a circular battery supply chain that prioritizes recycling and sustainability. Our experts all said that lithium is the material that’s experiencing the worst supply crunch, and the market seems to agree. What’s the scarcest of them all?

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R-Squared Energy

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Following my recent article – Lead-Acid Batteries Are On A Path To Extinction – I received an email from Battery Council International (BCI), the trade association for lead battery manufacturers, recyclers and suppliers. To summarize my view, I agree that the recycling issue must be addressed. jobs and make a $ 26.3 They agreed.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

  This week, we get nerdy mining ExxonMobil’s lithium announcement - is this lithium’s shale moment? Lithium Mobil-ization Source: Company presentations, Bloomberg Last week, ExxonMobil unveiled its first-ever lithium mining operation in Arkansas, marking its first major foray into lithium production.

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Business Green

AUGUST 17, 2021

Mining giant Glencore has snapped up a stake in start-up Britishvolt, with the two firms today announcing a long-term partnership for the supply of "responsibly-sourced" cobalt to support manufacture of lithium-ion battery cells in Northumberland.

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Clean Energy Canada

MAY 18, 2021

Dunsky Energy Consulting, Lithion Recycling, the Mining Association of Canada, Li-Cycle, E3 Metals, the Transition Accelerator, General Motors Canada, E-One Moli Energy (Canada), Magna International, Propulsion Québec, Blue Solutions Canada, and Polaris Strategy + Insight.

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