Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

As Hazer plans to increase operations throughout the first half of 2024, it aims to demonstrate continuous operation at a commercial scale. The resulting synthetic graphite is of high quality, suitable for use in lithium-ion batteries , among other applications.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 25, 2024

Between 2020 and 2024, investments in Canada’s EV battery supply chain have grown to a whopping $49 billion, blowing even some of the most optimistic growth projections out of the water. EV sales are continuing to smash records both globally and locally, with one in five cars sold globally in 2024 projected to be an electric vehicle.

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Charged

APRIL 18, 2023

It will extract such materials as nickel, cobalt and lithium in quantities sufficient to support production of 500,000 EV batteries annually. The company says it plans to invest more than $1 billion in the next five years to expand the infrastructure required to meet growing demand for these critical materials.

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Charged

MARCH 15, 2022

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has caused prices of nickel, lithium and other materials to soar, compounding the pain of the global chip shortage and other supply chain woes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Lithium prices have also risen, more than doubling since the end of 2021. Prices of nickel and aluminum have been breaking records.

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Charged

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Lithium-ion battery prices have been dropping for so long that industry players and pundits tend to factor ever-cheaper cells into their predictions, and many have made (dubious) comparisons to Moore’s Law, one of the core tenets of the computer industry. The results from @BloombergNEF 's 2022 lithium-ion battery price survey are out.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Apart from lithium, there is one material that is currently a fundamental part of all lithium-ion batteries, regardless of cathode chemistry: graphite. Graphite is a strangely unnoticed piece of the lithium-ion battery; it is the weightiest constituent of most installations. We need to talk about graphite.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The automaker will offer LFP (lithium iron phosphate) as a second battery chemistry option in addition to NCM (nickel cobalt manganese), allowing customers to choose an EV with battery performance characteristics aligned with their needs. Ford’s electric vehicle lineup has generated huge demand,” said Ford CEO Jim Farley. “To

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 30, 2022

Between 2021 and 2030, the yearly battery demand is anticipated to increase at a CAGR of 41%, reaching 142GWh. Lead-acid batteries continued to dominate the Indian EV ecosystem in 2021, accounting for 81% of the market; this is due to the high demand for e-rickshaws. The market is of 6.5GWh, just like in 2021. million automobiles.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

As the global Lithium-Ion (Li-Ion) battery market is forecast to grow from $57.4 The researcher’s predictions, they state in a release, suggest a sizeable global Li-Ion battery demand increase, skyrocketing from over 700GWh in 2022 to approximately 4.7TWh by 2030. billion in 2023 to $120.65

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 26, 2024

Growth in batteries outpaced almost all other clean energy technologies in 2023 as falling costs, advancing innovation and supportive industrial policies helped drive up demand for the crucial technology, finds the IEA’s Batteries and Secure Energy Transitions World Energy Outlook Special Report.

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The Verge: Energy

AUGUST 8, 2023

The first vehicle to be released with bidirectional V2H charging will be the 2024 Chevy Silverado EV , followed by the 2024 GMC Sierra EV Denali Edition 1 , 2024 Chevy Blazer EV , 2024 Chevy Equinox EV , 2024 Cadillac Lyriq , and the upcoming Cadillac Escalade IQ (which is getting a proper debut later this week).

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 23, 2022

Plans for mass production are slated for the second half of 2024 with a production capacity of 11GWh. The investment decision comes on the back of growing demand for cylindrical-type batteries in the North American market. The Korean battery manufacturer will be the cylindrical battery plant’s sole investor.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

This apparatus, in theory, allows for storing power economically on much longer timescales than is feasible with the lithium-ion batteries prevalent today. Malta has already submitted bids for storage solicitations, he added, and plans to have its first commercial project online in 2024 or 2025. The market is transitioning rapidly.".

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2022

Facility will be able to treat a sizeable tranche of the UK’s end-of-life vehicles when it comes online in 2024, according to firm. The company told S&P Platts it expected the plan to be able to process 1,000 mt a year of batteries by 2024, a figure expected to amount to 20 per cent of all the UK's end-of-life EV batteries.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Planning approval has been granted to EDF Renewables UK for three grid-scale lithium-ion battery sites strategically located in Kent, Norwich and Essex. In Swainsthorpe, Norwich, planning consent has been obtained for a 114MW/228MWh facility with construction expected to commence in early or late 2024.

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CleanTech San Diego

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Sodium ion is very compelling as it is a less-expensive and safer battery without the lithium supply chain uncertainties,” said UNIGRID CEO Darren H. The team is currently ramping up production in San Diego, California , in order to meet the rapidly growing interest and demand for their sodium-ion batteries. “The U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2021

With several lithium-ion battery installations to shift solar generation into later parts of the day, Kauai has gone for as long as nine hours in a day on entirely renewable electricity production. "It That pushes potential completion out to at least 2024, depending on how things go. We need long-duration storage.".

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Fike Blue – the response to battery thermal runaways Concerns about fires due to thermal runaway in lithium ion battery cells have been on the increase – but may now be allayed with what is stated as the “first third party tested solution” to stop such fires. Have you read?

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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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Under the terms of previously agreed deals, the miner is to supply cobalt for the lithium-ion batteries produced in Blyth, and the companies are to collaborate on a 100,000 tonnes per year capacity battery recycling plant in Kent that is expected to start processing used batteries by 2023.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Commercial and industrial customers with predictable, peaky loads are increasingly turning to storage to help manage demand charges. Over the next five years, system costs will decline further, with all-in costs falling by more than 27 percent by 2024, according to a new Wood Mackenzie report that looks at the pricing landscape for the U.S.

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Business Green

AUGUST 1, 2022

The net zero transition depends on copious amounts of graphite, lithium, cobalt, and other materials that provide the building blocks for energy efficient buildings, electricity transmission infrastructure, solar panels, electric vehicles, energy storage, wind turbines, and myriad other technologies.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

BloombergNEF also expects costs across the sector to remain high throughout 2023, due to high raw material and labour costs, soaring demand for battery packs from automakers, and cost increases across other parts of their supply chain, such as for power conversion systems and balancing services.

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Greentown Labs

DECEMBER 19, 2023

SWTCH installed 929 Level 2 EV chargers at apartment buildings across Canada; collaborated with Plugin Stations Online to deploy 100 public EV chargers throughout New York State; and partnered with AutoGrid to integrate 250 EV chargers in multi-tenant properties into an active-demand-response program with a Canadian utility.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

That means Southern Company intends to keep building new natural gas power plants to meet its supply needs, even as it grows its renewable energy portfolio from 9 gigawatts today to about 14 GW by 2024. To be sure, no U.S. utility has yet fully fleshed out how it intends to eliminate natural gas power plants from its generation portfolio.

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Business Green

MARCH 3, 2022

In order to capture efficiencies and cut down on production costs, Hyundai plans to invest in further EV manufacturing capacity in high-demand regions, as well as lithium-ion battery and software development, and is considering adding at least one new dedicated EV factory to its portfolio, it said.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 30, 2023

While oil demand seems to be nearing its peak , there’s no question that the need for critical metals is on the rise.    In August, a company called Lithium Americas logged what it expects could be a discovery of one of the world’s largest lithium repositories on the Nevada-Oregon border.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

It added that the zero-emission vehicle boasts a range of up to 500km thanks to its dual energy system, which combines lithium-ion batteries and a hydrogen fuel cell range extender. The tests will run in a demanding, harsh climate and it also give us a great opportunity for driving with heavy loads up 65 tonnes.".

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Smart Energy International

MAY 10, 2022

The report, Powering the Drive to Net Zero , highlights the opportunity for the UK to invest in the global demand for EV batteries, which are expected to underpin the future of road transport. This demand means new opportunities for investment in the UK, but only if the barriers to realising these opportunities are removed. Out now! ??

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Business Green

JUNE 11, 2021

Firstly, getting more people walking, on their bicycles, and onto trams and trains reduces demand for vehicles and vehicle miles, while also providing a health benefits through better air quality and exercise - after all, even EVs still produce particle pollution from brake and tyre wear.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

But the firm has set its sights on bringing down battery costs by 65 per cent by 2028, with a plan to accelerate lithium-ion technology innovation and introduce cobalt-free batteries, in a move that would help to make EVs more affordable for consumers.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Wood Mackenzie's latest Global Energy Storage Outlook projects that deployments will grow 13-fold over the next six years, from a 12 gigawatt-hour market in 2018 to a 158 gigawatt-hour market in 2024. This emerging market represents a huge opportunity.

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Charged

MAY 2, 2024

Since no renewable energy resource is available 100% of the time, you will probably need to incorporate a backup generator to supply an AC-input charger, but the good news is that this generator can be a lot smaller than if it were sized to power the house directly, because the inverter and storage battery will handle the peak power demands.

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Mr. Sustainability

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The demand for lithium-ion batteries is therefore going to 'explode', says Carlsson. In baking ovens, materials for batteries such as lithium are dried. We too have the entire chain - from processing raw materials such as lithium and cobalt to developing software for battery management - within one company.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Look forward to 2024 predictions from many of your favorite clairvoyant climate voices. 💨 Private equity and O&G bet big on climate tech’s next frontiers: DAC and lithium. Blackrock injected $550M into Oxy’s DAC plant and ExxonMobil unveiled its first-ever lithium mining operation.

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Charged

MARCH 3, 2020

Introducing silicon into automotive-grade lithium-ion cells has been a major topic in the EV industry in the past decade. This is due to a fundamental difference in the way that silicon “stores” lithium. For example, if a particle of silicon absorbs as much lithium as thermodynamically possible, its volume increases by about 300%.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

installations are expected to triple in 2020, on a megawatt basis, and increase 12 times from 2019 to 2024, although commercial batteries represent a fraction of the overall market. The energy storage market has grown since then, posting record deployments and revenue in 2019, according to data from research firm Wood Mackenzie. Overall U.S.

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