Charged

MAY 26, 2022

Battery cell pioneer Britishvolt has agreed to buy Monbat Group subsidiary EAS, a cell manufacturer based in Nordhausen, Germany. EAS has over 25 years of experience in developing and producing large-format cylindrical lithium-ion cells from 7.5 The deal values EAS at €36 million. Ah to 50 Ah. Prominent customers include NASA.

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Batteries North America Automotive Asia 126

Business Green

AUGUST 18, 2020

British Lithium Ltd secures backing from Innovate UK to help develop hard rock lithium extraction in the St Austell area of Cornwall. The project would make BLL the first company in the UK to explore for hard rock lithium. "We An on-site team of six is now preparing for a third phase of exploration, the firm said.

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Lithium Electric vehicle Batteries Europe 73

Charged

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The latest biannual report on the global EV market from Adamas Intelligence highlights expanding EV sales, as well as the growing popularity of LFP battery chemistries, in the first half of 2022. Growing EV sales translated to growing deployments of battery capacity and consumption of raw materials. In the first half of 2022, 6.23

Lithium 77

Lithium Asia Batteries Europe 77

Charged

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Early-adopting EV buyers seem likely to be a little more knowledgeable, and Tesla is taking the unprecedented step of giving buyers a choice between two alternative battery chemistries. LFP-based batteries have been the norm in the Chinese EV industry for years. I have a Model 3 on order and just got this about 10 minutes ago.

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Batteries North America Patents Europe 104

Mr. Sustainability

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

An introduction to the battery company NorthVolt and its strategy Summary - NortVolt, led by Tesla-Veteran Peter Carlsson, is building the very first European battery gigafactory. What is NorthVolt’s strategy to create a European battery power basis? He came back to build his own battery factory. million jobs, vulnerable.

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Batteries Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Europe 78

Charged

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Volkswagen and Swedish battery maker Northvolt have created a 50/50 joint venture to build a factory for lithium-ion batteries. By 2025, the automaker expects to have an annual demand of more than 150 GWh of battery capacity in Europe, and a similar amount in Asia. Source: Volkswagen.

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Batteries Asia Europe Construction 76

Charged

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Global EV sales and deliveries of battery raw materials fell on a monthly basis in July, but are still showing strong growth compared to July 2021, according to the latest Monthly Battery Raw Materials Deployment report from Adamas Intelligence. Similar trends were to be seen in battery deployments and raw material deliveries.

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Batteries Logging Asia Lithium 58

Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Also of interest is new debt financing for 80 microgrids in India and a successful Series A for Silicon Anode Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries, aiming to bolster the market in Europe. Series A for silicon Li-ion battery anode. ESG for utilities: decarbonisation on the up. Microgrid debt financing.

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Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 95

Business Green

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Start-up picks North East as location for its plant as Business Secretary travels to region to visit site of planned lithium refinery plant. UK clean technology start-up Altilium has announced plans to build the "largest planned recycling facility" in the UK for end-of-life electric vehicle (EV) batteries at a site on Teesside.

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Recycling Recycling Batteries Lithium 47

Smart Energy International

AUGUST 28, 2023

Superfast charging LFP batteries for EVs, improving Bitcoin mining efficiency and a maiden voyage with ‘Windwings’ are on the week’s technology radar. Superfast charging LFP batteries for EVs A 10 minute charge providing a driving range of 400km and a full charge delivering 700km?

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Technology Batteries Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 52

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.

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Batteries Automotive North America Lithium 41

Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Regionally, Asia-Pacific (APAC) will lead the storage build on a megawatt basis by 2030, but the Americas will build more on a megawatt-hour basis, because storage plants in the U.S. Growth in the region could accelerate as renewables penetration surges, more fossil-fuel generators exit and the battery supply chain becomes more localized.

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Education Lithium Energy Energy 95

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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Batteries Lithium Automotive North America 48

Greentown Labs

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Another example is the recent partnership between German behemoth BASF (the largest chemical producer in the world) and American Battery Technology Company (ABTC). These materials will then be sent back to Nanotech for battery production.

Startups 73

Startups North America Asia Batteries 73

Smart Energy International

AUGUST 15, 2022

A new advance opening the way for Mg-ion batteries, protections for birds around networks, Enel Green Power’s Sicily hydrogen lab and a plan to power Bitcoin mining with methane from landfills are in the technology radar. Out with lithium, in with magnesium. For the birds. The Safelines4birds project, with a €14 million ($14.4

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Methane Innovation Hydrogen Technology 52

GreenTechMedia

MARCH 1, 2021

Most of the early-stage work on hydrogen’s grid storage potential is happening in Europe and Asia, but the U.S. Today’s lithium-ion battery technologies are limited to about four to eight hours of storage capacity, and overbuilding enough battery capacity to cover longer periods of time would drastically expand costs.

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Hydrogen Energy Energy Natural gas 130

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.

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Batteries North America Sustainability Recycling 110

GreenTechMedia

JULY 8, 2020

may have fallen behind Asia and Europe in battery manufacturing, but a number of well-funded companies are looking to get the country back in the game with a technology that could supersede today’s lithium-ion chemistries. Solid-state battery commercialization still a few years off.

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Batteries Technology Lithium North America 235

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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Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor Technology Lithium 52

Business Green

MAY 19, 2020

A major driver behind the accelerating shift towards EVs is cost, and the report forecasts further falls in lithium ion battery prices is likely to see both the lifetime and upfront costs of an electric car become cheaper than petrol and diesel equivalents from around 2025 on average worldwide.

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Fossil fuels Transportation Demand Electric vehicle 97

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.

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Batteries Technology Europe Asia 105

Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 28, 2021

It includes a whole range of jobs, from the worker assembling battery packs for new electric buses to the insulator retrofitting homes so they waste less energy. Ontario-based Li-Cycle produces and sells recycled minerals from old car batteries to international clients like LG and General Motors.

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Energy Energy Fossil fuels Real Estate 52

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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Batteries Lithium Energy Energy 148

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.

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Batteries Automotive Asia Lithium 110

AutoGrid

OCTOBER 15, 2021

VPPs harness power from batteries, solar panels, electric vehicles and even thermostats – which all talk to one another virtually over the cloud. In the Asia Pacific region, we continued to work with market trailblazers such as Tata Power DDL in India, CLP in Hong Kong , and Eneres in Japan.

Energy 59

Energy Energy Fossil fuels Electricity 59

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

Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

New blockchain startup CarbonEnfo hits the market running, the ChatGPT fusion ‘ambassador’ and a graphene nanotube facility in development in Europe for EV batteries are on the week’s technology radar. We’re very interested in driving trust and transparency across the supply chain,” he said of the association to Energy Web.

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Startups Technology Blockchain Lithium 64

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.

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Startups Batteries Lithium Automotive 102

Charged

MARCH 11, 2024

There’s much hand-wringing in the press these days about battery raw materials such as lithium, cobalt and nickel. How many companies are providing rare earths from within the US or Europe? When you look at the global supply chain for rare earths across all three stages, Asia is dominant, and China in particular.

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Innovation Recycling Recycling Resilience 118

GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

ACES will provide up to 150,000 megawatt-hours of energy storage capacity, a scale that dwarfs the lithium-ion battery capacity being installed in California and across the Intermountain West. Mitsubishi also makes lithium-ion batteries for the rapidly growing global market, said Paul Browning, CEO of Mitsubishi Power America.

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Hydrogen Natural gas Lithium Batteries 130

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.

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Asia Europe Batteries North America 234

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.

Energy 98

Energy Energy Hydrogen Europe 98

GreenBiz

JUNE 1, 2021

battery-electric buses are projected to remain the lowest-carbon option in every part of the country, even on current electricity grids. public transit bus market consisted of electric buses at the end of 2017 — a nascent market when compared to deployment rates of 12-14 percent in Europe and Asia. In the U.S., However, just 0.5

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Electricity Transportation Batteries North America 538

Envirotec Magazine

JULY 11, 2023

An analysis by Stratas Advisors has predicted that in Europe the demand for biofuels based on animal fat will grow from 1.4 Animal fats and used cooking oil are to them what lithium, cobalt and copper are to battery makers,” said the group’s Juan Sacoto, Executive Director – Agribusiness Consulting.

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Aviation Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 100

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. Because EV and battery manufacturing is very complex and it’s a very long process.

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Batteries Logistics Automotive Sustainability 97

Charged

AUGUST 16, 2022

They simply can’t ramp up production quickly enough, and this is not only because of the time and investment it takes to build new factories and repurpose production lines—the companies are also dealing with frustrating shortages of batteries and other components. Farewell to falling prices.

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Lithium Recycling Recycling Batteries 68