Charged

MARCH 8, 2024

Media coverage of EVs tends to focus on the world’s largest auto markets: North America, Europe and Asia. kWh battery pack, and starts at around $22,500 in Mexico. China’s export onslaught is causing some concern (not to say panic) in automotive boardrooms around the world, and European automakers are beginning to respond.

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South America North America Automotive Asia 56

Business Green

MAY 25, 2022

UK battery maker expands its presence internationally with proposed deal for Monbat Group subsidiary. Britishvolt has agreed to purchase German lithium-ion battery cell technology developer EAS for €36m, as the UK-based firm looks to continue its rapid expansion in the energy storage and electric vehicle (EV) battery market.

Batteries 44

Batteries Automotive North America Lithium 44

Smart Energy International

JULY 22, 2022

The company plans to deploy an additional seven million meters in the Asia-Pacific region through local partnerships over the next three years. According to Trilliant, the announcement is a reflection of the company’s growing commitment to the Asia-Pacific region, with more than 3.5 135m equity investment into ESS developer.

Building Energy Monitoring 96

Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring 96

Charged

AUGUST 15, 2023

As Bob Kacergis of Momentum Dynamics explained to Charged in a 2022 feature article , wireless charging, done properly, can be truly transformative for EV fleets, delivering longer vehicle range, longer battery life and a more efficient use of charging stations—to say nothing of enabling the deployment of autonomous vehicles.

North America 76

North America Automotive Asia Europe 76

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.

Batteries 51

Batteries Lithium Automotive North America 51

Charged

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Now, the technology is increasingly specified by carmakers for use in EVs for weight control, battery packaging, cable to terminal connections, bus bars, battery manufacturing and power electronics. Telsonic Torsional SONIQTWIST provides the maximum movement (amplitude) in the outer edge.

Plastics 91

Plastics Batteries Packaging Innovation 91

GreenBiz

JANUARY 4, 2021

These new vehicles are quickly bumping up against familiar challenges of battery range, production capacity and charging, or fueling, infrastructure. delivered its 100th battery-electric truck in the U.S BYD delivered its 100th battery-electric truck in the U.S BYD delivered its 100th battery-electric truck in the U.S

Electricity 545

Electricity Electric vehicle North America Hydrogen 545

Charged

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

For EVs to deliver their full emission-reducing potential, the battery supply chain must be as clean as possible, and cathode active materials (CAM) are a key part of the sustainability equation. Automakers have high hopes for solid-state batteries, mainly because of their improved safety characteristics.

Batteries 101

Batteries North America Sustainability Recycling 101

Smart Energy International

AUGUST 3, 2022

We are excited to implement the customer centric demand response solutions tailored to demand types and capable of sub second reaction which we have experience of in Europe, USA and Australia. As a new entrant to Japan, GridBeyond is excited to work in this changing regulatory environment. Image: GridBeyond. Demand side measures.

Solar Energy Monitor 98

Solar Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 98

Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Scaling up battery production in Europe, advancing e-mobility with battery supply in Japan and a new community solar project in New York, are on the week’s technology radar. Scaling up battery production in Europe. As part of the plan, Prime Batteries Technology intends to attract and access new talent.

Batteries 105

Batteries Technology Europe Asia 105

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.

Energy 115

Energy Energy Packaging Batteries 115

Charged

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Three German firms– GROB , Manz and Dürr , have partnered to provide lithium-ion battery producers with production technologies. According to GROB, the partnership will “offer customers a powerful alternative to existing suppliers, who are mostly based in Asia. GROB manufactures production systems for electric drives. “In

Batteries 101

Batteries Automotive Asia Lithium 101

Charged

MAY 14, 2024

Car Wars Han Feizi, writing in Asia Times , offers a colorful assessment of the current EV scene in China, which he compares to the notorious Japanese “motorcycle wars.” Michael Dunne , a long-time watcher of the Chinese automotive industry, writing in Dunne Insights , asks us to imagine “a world in which China builds every single car.”

Asia 95

Asia Europe Automotive Africa 95

Clean Energy Canada

MAY 26, 2021

As our largest trading partners rapidly reimagine their economies, one thing is clear: Batteries will be the literal engines of the modern world—powering our cars, our trucks, our ferries, our commutes to work, and the delivery of our next FedEx package. Right now, 80% of the world’s batteries are produced in Japan, South Korea, and China.

Batteries 52

Batteries North America Asia Lithium 52

Smart Energy International

MARCH 23, 2022

Sparkz, a cobalt-free lithium-ion battery manufacturing startup, wants to hire displaced coal miners to staff a gigafactory it plans to build in West Virginia. The startup aims to reduce demand for battery components produced in China, which controls much of the world’s mine production for lithium-ion batteries.

Startups 102

Startups Batteries Lithium Automotive 102

AGreenLiving

JANUARY 4, 2021

These new vehicles are quickly bumping up against familiar challenges of battery range, production capacity and charging, or fueling, infrastructure. BYD delivered its 100th battery-electric truck in the U.S BYD delivered its 100th battery-electric truck in the U.S The vans are expected to start rolling out for delivery in 2022.

Electricity 28

Electricity Electric vehicle North America Hydrogen 28

The Verge: Energy

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

It’s got a battery in it.” How are you protecting the batteries? How are you sourcing the batteries? The shock loads that a tractor sees on a day-to-day basis would set off the alarms on your car, set off the airbags, and would turn off your battery system right away for safety. How durable is this battery?

Agriculture 87

Agriculture Batteries Electricity Technology 87

Charged

MARCH 11, 2024

There’s much hand-wringing in the press these days about battery raw materials such as lithium, cobalt and nickel. Establishing extraction and processing of rare earths closer to the places where automotive components are made is a high priority, but it’s not something that can be rushed.

Innovation 109

Innovation Recycling Recycling Resilience 109

Hydrogen Fuel News

APRIL 25, 2024

The company has been diligently applying for many patents in the USA, Europe and Asia, with some already having been granted. Hyzon’s patent registrations are reportedly focused on both fuel cells and on battery systems. Among these strategies is several patent registrations.

Patents 77

Patents Hydrogen North America Electric vehicle 77

GreenTechMedia

APRIL 15, 2020

Europe is sinking billions of dollars into research in an attempt to overturn Asia’s dominance of the battery market, but analysts believe it could be in vain. The investment will support battery research and innovation across Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Sweden. Dwarfing U.S.

Asia 234

Asia Europe Batteries North America 234

GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 22, 2021

percent of global automotive and heavy-duty vehicle sales last year, that share is set to grow to nearly 14 percent by 2030, according to Wood Mackenzie. Government mandates to electrify transportation to meet decarbonization goals are the primary driver, including in much of Europe and Asia and a growing number of U.S.

Energy Monitor 130

Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Electric vehicle 130

Business Green

JANUARY 27, 2022

However, it was electrified transport, which includes spending on electric vehicles (EVs) and associated infrastructure, that saw the most rapid growth as the world's automotive giants rushed to expand their electric fleets. Investment in renewable energy continued to dominate the market, with a record of $366bn committed in 2021, up 6.5

Investment 93

Investment Energy Energy Transportation 93

Charged

JANUARY 18, 2023

Traceability is becoming a critical function in the EV industry, thanks to the “Buy American” requirements of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) and Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), and similar provisions in the EU’s new Battery Directive. We have been operating in the automotive industry for a long time. I joined BV in 2016.

Batteries 88

Batteries Logistics Automotive Sustainability 88

Business Green

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Rolton and chief governance officer Tom Cowling sit down with BusinessGreen to discuss the company's plans to 'kickstart the UK's battery ecosyste. The company behind the scheme, Britishvolt, is only two years old and yet to commercialise a single battery. Battery technology is only at the start of its evolutionary journey.

Batteries 69

Batteries Recycling Recycling Lithium 69

Clean Energy Canada

OCTOBER 6, 2023

A number of pundits were suggesting that the clean economic transition would need to take a backseat to energy security and that it would not yet be economically viable, pointing to increased coal use in Asia and Europe, soaring LNG prices, and predicting a deadly European winter without heat.

Fossil fuels 52

Fossil fuels Investment Natural gas Batteries 52

Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 10, 2023

  By the numbers: Chinese battery and EV powerhouse BYD is now just ~3,000 vehicles shy of Tesla’s sales over the last three months, according to analysis by Bloomberg. In fact, Tesla buys batteries from BYD , which makes its own batteries and semiconductors. sold in Europe during the first half of the year.

Energy Monitor 57

Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 57