Business Green

JULY 27, 2020

UK developer secures investment to expand development of EV and grid storage batteries that can be repaired, reused and upgraded. Battery storage is set to play a central role in decarbonising the global economy, critical for renewable energy, electric vehicles and other key technologies.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 17, 2022

Jaguar Land Rover is partnering with Italian technology supplier Pramac on a portable energy storage unit with second-life I-PACE batteries. The Off Grid Battery Energy Storage System features lithium-ion cells from Jaguar I-PACE electric vehicle batteries taken from prototype and engineering test models. Have you read?

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The EMEA region (Europe, Middle East and Africa) currently lags behind its counterparts due to the lack of targeted storage policies and incentives, which BNEF finds surprising, considering Europe’s ambitious climate targets. Battery chemistries and technologies expand.

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Business Green

MARCH 19, 2020

Two major deals agreed this week, as new projections point to upbeat long term prospects for global battery sector. Two major deals between UK-based and international battery producers have been unveiled this week as companies move to seize on the opportunities created by the low carbon transition.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The report also noted that Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) currently lags behind its counterparts due an absence of targeted storage policies and incentives, but it added that a more supportive policy environment could emerge as European governments work to deliver on their ambitious decarbonisation goals.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Alstom to deliver new battery electric trains for Chemnitz-Leipzig line. Engineering giant Alstom has signed a landmark deal with two German rail operators that will see it manufacture, deliver and maintain eleven Coradia Continental battery-electric trains for the Leipzig-Chemnitz route.

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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. Certainly, if it can’t be addressed, then that would be an advantage in favor of lead-acid batteries. .

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Machine learning based battery charging protocols, propane as an energy efficient and environmentally friendly coolant for space cooling, the remotely controlled Robobug and a new light on nano-level electrical circuitry, satellite observations for energy development in Africa and a zero emission luxury catamaran are on the technology radar.

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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2020

UK tech start-up gains Innovate UK backing to assess South Africa's former gold mines for energy storage capability. UK tech start-up Gravitricity has unveiled plans to explore the energy storage potential of South Africa's former mine shafts, thanks to a £300,000 funding boost from government agency Innovate UK.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Rio Tinto says it will invest $98 million in a 34-megawatt PV array and 12-megawatt-hour lithium-ion battery system to help power its Koodaideri mine in Pilbara, Western Australia. Anglo American has also installed an 84-kilowatt floating solar array at its tailings pond at Los Bronces, a first for the industry, Martinez said.

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R-Squared Energy

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Lithium-ion batteries were excluded from the solicitation. The CEC selected four energy storage projects incorporating vanadium flow batteries (“VFBs”) from North America and UK-based Invinity Energy Systems plc. megawatt-hours (MWh) of batteries across the four projects. Invinity’s total scope is 7.8

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 20, 2023

This week’s Smart Energy Finances looks at Skeleton Technologies’ €108 million funding round, with investors such as Siemens Financial Services and Marubeni Corporation, for supercapacitor manufacturing and development of new high-power battery technology, namely the SuperBattery.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

APAC, starting with China, Japan, Korea, Australia, and New Zealand as the first region; India, the Russian sub-continent as the second region; Europe, the Middle East, and Africa as the third region, and then North and South America as the fourth region. We have divided the world in four regions.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Battery recycling attracts another big check with a $542M Series D, and food recycling attracts $70M. The summit also sought to highlight Africa as a destination for climate investments, rather than viewing the continent as predominantly a victim of droughts, famines, and floods. In deals this week, decarbonized steel secures $1.6B.

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Business Green

JULY 30, 2021

South Africa calls for global climate adaptation target. South Africa's environment minister Barbara Creecy has called for national leaders to ratify a global goal for climate adaptation, Climate Home News reported earlier this week. Rio Tinto ready to drop $2.4bn on Serbian lithium project. "I have no doubt," he told delegates.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

The EV supply chain dominated, with critical minerals, batteries, vehicle assembly and charging equipment making up 84% of Q4 investment. for a new fund that focuses on digitization and decarbonization investments in Europe. Manufacturing. Total 2023 investment was up 133% compared to the prior year. Energy & industry.

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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. McKinsey & Co. July 2023. [2] ” Report by Allianz Trade.

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

  In deals this week there’s $171m for battery recycling across two deals, $150m for thermal batteries, and $71m for green hydrogen.  Meanwhile five graphite companies in the US and Canada call for Biden to reinstate tariffs on natural and artificial graphite , the largest component in EV batteries.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 11, 2023

  In deals, major funding for battery recycling and dry electrodes, and additional late-stage funding for forestry projects and precision weed control. 🔋 Princeton NuEnergy , a Bordentown, New Jersey-based lithium-ion battery recycling developer, raised $16M in Series A funding from Wistron Corporation, Honda Motor Co.,

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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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CleanTechnica

OCTOBER 9, 2020

The Nissan RE-LEAF is a concept aimed at emergency response, providing power where there is none. Nissan's design shows the EV concept can simultaneously power an electric jackhammer (24 hours – 36 kWh), a pressure ventilation fan (24 hours – 21.6 kWh), a 10-liter soup kettle (24 hours – 9.6 kWh) as part of relief efforts.

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CleanTechnica

OCTOBER 6, 2020

As the number of EVs on the road grows, there is now an urgent need to train automotive technicians to be ready to work on all these EVs. Taurayi Raymond Sewera wants to help address this gap starting in Zimbabwe. He is setting up the International Institute of Automotive Technology Training (IIATT) with a major focus on PHEV and BEVs.

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CleanTechnica

JULY 4, 2020

Last Thursday, California made history by becoming the first state to mandate that truck makers move to zero-emission drivetrains. California Air Resources Board’s (CARB) new Advanced Clean Trucks regulation requires that half of the state’s trucks will need to be zero-emission by 2035, and the remaining half by 2045.

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CleanTechnica

JUNE 10, 2020

Bjorn Nyland (aka Teslabjorn) wanted to use the PlugShare App as a map for one of his now famous electric road trips, but he realized the map would just be too cluttered, as Norway has a lot of fast chargers! Ah yes, first world problems, in Bjorn’s words.

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CleanTechnica

APRIL 21, 2020

Stellenbosch-based MellowVans seeks to help firms across the globe in this space in their quest to unlock operational efficiencies and cost savings by providing them with low cost and emission-free transport.

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CleanTechnica

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Just like many EV brands blame the slow ramp-up of EV production on battery supply constraints, lithium-ion home batteries have not been produced in large volumes. With a huge world market to address, a limited quantity of the batteries from these global brands get to reach Africa.

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