TechCrunch: Climate

MARCH 14, 2024

Coreshell, a battery materials startup, revealed a breakthrough this week that could lower the cost of lithium-ion batteries while reducing reliance on China. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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AUGUST 17, 2023

Amprius Technologies , a battery manufacturer in California, has announced a new ultra-high-power, high-energy lithium-ion battery cell that discharges at 10C and delivers 400 Wh/kg specific energy. Amprius aims to offer samples by the end of 2023 and commercialize the new cell in early 2024.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Geothermal Engineering Limited (GEL) has announced plans of producing around 10o tonnes of Lithium Carbon Equivalent (LCE) per year from the company’s geothermal projects in Cornwall, UK. The United Downs project is expected to start producing power in 2024 and represents the UK’s first integrated deep geothermal power and heat project.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The City Council of Landau in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany has approved an agreement with Vulcan Energy (Vulcan) to begin construction of an integrated geothermal energy generation and lithium extraction plant (G-LEP) at the site of the planned “Am Messegelände Südost” business park.

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JULY 14, 2023

US lithium-extraction company Controlled Thermal Resources (CTR) has selected US lithium processor Aquatech to deliver the engineering and process plants for the conversion of lithium chloride intermediate product to battery-grade lithium hydroxide monohydrate at CTR’s Stage 1 Lithium Hydroxide Facility.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

MARCH 1, 2024

Vulcan Energie Ressourcen GmbH (Vulcan Energy) has been awarded as the recipient of the prestigious Ruggero Bertani European Geothermal Innovation Award 2024. The LEOP is a critical milestone in Vulcan Energy’s roadmap of harnessing the geothermal lithium potential in the Upper Rhine Graben. It is very important for us.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Solid-state battery technology is widely expected to be the next big thing in the EV world, as it promises higher energy density, lower cost and more safety than current Li-ion designs. SEE ALSO – Solid-state battery tech: What’s close to commercialization, and what’s still years away? Source: SlashGear

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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

JANUARY 12, 2024

Battery manufacturing technology provider 24M has unveiled a new battery separator tech called 24M Impervio, which the company says can make EV batteries substantially safer by inhibiting the growth of dendrites (rootlike metal growths that can build up on the anode surface, potentially causing a short-circuit that can lead to a fire).

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TechCrunch: Climate

APRIL 3, 2024

The battery startup has raised $78 million to bring its alternative to lithium-ion cells to everything from scooters to steel mills. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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JANUARY 5, 2024

Sodium-ion batteries have long been touted as a possible successor to the lithium-ion kind—they may have lower energy density, but they rely on more abundant sodium rather than lithium, perform better in cold temperatures, and above all, tend to be cheaper. The model’s sodium battery version has a smaller battery pack (21.4

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JULY 20, 2023

Sion Power has reported a major development milestone for its Licerion EV technology—the company has produced more than 18,000 multilayer, 6 Ah to 20 Ah lithium metal cells for commercial evaluation. Sion says Licerion EV delivers high energy density, enabling longer range with lighter and smaller batteries. Source: Sion Power

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MARCH 14, 2022

Australia-based battery materials company Liontown Resources has agreed to supply Tesla with spodumene concentrate, a source of lithium. Liontown will supply Tesla with up to 150,000 dry metric tons (DMT) of spodumene concentrate per year, produced at Liontown’s Kathleen Valley Lithium Project in Western Australia.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2023

NOVONIX , a battery materials and technology company, and SandboxAQ, an enterprise software-as-a-service (SaaS) company that combines artificial intelligence (AI) with quantum analysis (AQ), will collaborate to predict the lifespan of lithium-ion batteries.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

In a filing Monday with the Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC), Dominion Energy Virginia proposed a groundbreaking battery storage pilot project that the company says could significantly increase the length of time batteries can discharge electricity to the grid.

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JANUARY 11, 2022

Global materials firm POSCO plans to spend $830 million on a lithium hydroxide plant in Argentina. The plant is to be built by the first half of 2024, and the company expects the 13.5 The plant is to be built by the first half of 2024, and the company expects the 13.5 Source: Yonhap News Agency.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 22, 2024

shares his expectations for the clean energy transition in 2024. In 2024, the race to set and achieve bold clean energy targets will intensify. In 2024, deployment of these decentralized models will accelerate as utilities and regulators continue to see the advantages. Have you read? GW of storage online by 2030.

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DECEMBER 18, 2023

6K Energy , a provider of critical materials for lithium-ion batteries, has won a $50-million grant from the DOE’s Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains for its PlusCAM battery material production plant located in Jackson, Tennessee. The most critical item needed to break our reliance on China is CAM.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

JANUARY 19, 2024

The California Energy Commission (CEC) has announced a Grant Funding Opportunity for projects that seek to address corrosion and/or scaling in geothermal installations in California or advance technologies to enhance extraction of lithium and other valuable minerals from geothermal brine at the Salton Sea geothermal field.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Cirba Solutions and GM have extended an existing agreement to recycle battery scrap generated by manufacturing and research at selected GM facilities through 2024. The original agreement dates from 2021, and GM has already recycled more than a million pounds of batteries. Source: Cirba Solutions.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 26, 2024

Despite immense cost cuts and their deployment in the power sector last year more than doubling, batteries need to lead a sixfold increase in global energy storage deployments to enable the world to meet 2030 targets, says the International Energy Agency (IEA). But today, the energy sector accounts for over 90% of overall battery demand.

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JULY 3, 2023

Battery manufacturer Group14 Technologies has begun the construction of its second commercial-scale Battery Active Materials (BAM-2) factory in Moses Lake, Washington. The production lines for the two initial modules are expected to come online and begin manufacturing SCC55 for customers in 2024. Source: Group14

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OCTOBER 12, 2022

mMT of lithium carbonate equivalent (LCE). Compass will use $200 million of the proceeds to advance the first phase of its lithium development project. Securing funding to aggressively pursue phase one of our lithium growth opportunity has been an important focus for our management team,” said Compass CEO Kevin S. Crutchfield.

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JULY 25, 2022

Ford has executed an offtake agreement with Australia-based battery materials company Liontown Resources for the supply of the lithium-providing spodumene concentrate for a term of 5 years. Liontown will source spodumene concentrate from its Kathleen Valley Lithium Project in western Australia. Li 2 0 and 130 ppm of Ta 2 0 5.

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AUGUST 25, 2023

CATL , the world’s largest EV battery maker and a major Tesla supplier, has launched a new lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery that it claims can add 248 miles of range in 10 minutes of charging. According to the company, the Shenxing LFP battery can achieve fast charging even in temperatures as low as 14° F.

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JUNE 9, 2022

Silicon-carbon battery tech supplier Group14 Technologies has raised $400 million in Series C funding, which it plans to use to open its second battery active materials factory in the US. SCC55 is a silicon-carbon powder designed for anodes , and the company says it is “capable of turning any gigafactory into a 1.5

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JUNE 7, 2022

Battery materials maker Sila Nanotechnologies will open an anode material plant in Moses Lake, Washington. The company claims its anode material boosts the energy density of lithium-ion batteries by 20%.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Skeleton Technologies has introduced a new product that combines supercapacitors and batteries, and has joined a coalition of nine members, including Shell , that aims to electrify mining equipment. Skeleton’s patented Curved Graphene material allows for 100 times faster charging compared to standard lithium-ion batteries,” says the company.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

October’s SoftBank-led investment in iron flow battery startup ESS represented an unusual event in 2019: a piece of good news for the flow battery sector. Leading players such as Sumitomo Electric and Dalian Rongke Power, the latter of which once boasted the world’s largest vanadium flow battery project, have gone silent.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 1, 2022

Global lithium-sulphur cathode technology manufacturer Theion has launched its crystal battery for all mobile applications. The new battery boasts triple energy density and 90% less production energy requirements. Crystal battery benefits. Production & distribution. Theion’s new leadership.

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MAY 16, 2022

Sustainability is the raison d’etre of EVs, so it’s obviously important to find a way to document the sustainable nature of the raw materials that go into EV batteries. million) in government funding to develop standards for gathering and disclosing data on batteries, which could soon become mandatory under European Union regulations.

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MARCH 6, 2024

Battery manufacturer SK On is showcasing new fast-charging battery cells at this week’s InterBattery 2024 , a battery trade show in Seoul, South Korea. The Advanced SF and SF+ batteries are among several new technologies that SK On is displaying at the show.

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MAY 10, 2021

Geologists have estimated that an area in the Upper Rhine Valley, in the Black Forest area of southwestern Germany, holds enough lithium for more than 400 million electric cars, making it one of the world’s biggest deposits. The trove could reduce the reliance of the German car industry on imported lithium.

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JULY 17, 2023

BASF , a chemicals firm, has opened a battery material production and recycling site in Schwarzheide, Germany. The automated production plant makes cathode active materials, and mechanically processes end-of-life batteries and battery production waste for the production of black mass, which contains lithium, nickel, cobalt and manganese.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 25, 2024

Honda will bring to Ontario new manufacturing activities and jobs in the three highest value parts of the EV battery supply chain: battery materials production, battery cell manufacturing, and EV assembly. “The investment will be supported by both federal and Ontario government contributions of up to $2.5 billion each.

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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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APRIL 18, 2023

Battery recycling company Cirba Solutions has announced a Phase I investment of at least $300 million in a new battery recycling facility to be built near Columbia, South Carolina. It will extract such materials as nickel, cobalt and lithium in quantities sufficient to support production of 500,000 EV batteries annually.

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