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GM and POSCO Chemical to open cathode materials processing plant in North America

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GM has announced a plan to work with global materials firm POSCO Chemical on a battery material processing facility in North America, which is scheduled to open in 2024. POSCO Chemical manufactures anode and cathode materials. Source: GM.

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Honda hopes to go electric in North America by 2040, will develop solid-state batteries

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Following Toyota’s announcement of a new line of battery-electric vehicles , Honda now says it plans to make battery-electric and fuel cell vehicles 100% of its North American sales by 2040. Honda also announced a goal to make solid-state batteries available for new Honda EV models in the second half of the 2020s.

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American Battery Solutions to supply battery packs to electric bus manufacturer NFI Group

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American Battery Solutions (ABS) has signed a multi-year contract with bus manufacturer NFI Group to supply custom battery packs for NFI subsidiary New Flyer ’s newest 35-, 40- and 60-foot battery-electric transit buses. And plenty of cells will be needed—the market for electric buses in North America is heating up.

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ENGIE Puts Sun Valley Battery Storage into Commission

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ENGIE’s 100 MW Sun Valley Battery Storage project in Hill County, Texas has been commissioned. We have more than 2 GW of energy storage already under construction in Texas and other states expected to be commissioned by end of 2024,” says Dave Carroll, chief renewables officer of ENGIE North America. “We

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Greentown Labs Member Milestones — April 2024 

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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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Aqua Metals and 6K Energy collaborate to establish sustainable US battery supply chain

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Aqua Metals has developed a process for recycling lithium-ion batteries that it says is much cleaner, more efficient and more cost-effective than current methods (see our recent in-depth interview with company execs ). At full scale, Aqua will provide 30% of the nickel and lithium carbonate needed at 6K’s PlusCAM facility.

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Cirba Solutions to build EV battery recycling plant in South Carolina

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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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