Business Green

MAY 25, 2022

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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Business Green

MARCH 19, 2020

UK-based redT energy and US Avalon Battery Corporation have merged to create a new company, named Invinity, which will produce vanadium redox flow batteries, a key competitor to conventional lithium-ion technology that is tipped to become a £3.5bn market by 2028.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Umicore started developing battery materials in Asia in the mid-1990s. The Inflation Reduction Act heavily incentivizes production of battery raw materials in North America, and OEMs and battery makers are rushing to establish production of cathode active materials and precursors in the region.

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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 is a platform that allows things like metallic lithium as an anode,” he said.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Applying machine learning techniques to data on the condition of lithium-ion batteries during their charging and discharging cycles, the scientists at Idaho National Laboratory report predicting lifetimes and the ways that different designs would eventually fail, which could then be fed back to identify and optimise new charging protocols.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 15, 2022

Other drivers include the rising use of energy storage systems based on lithium-ion batteries and use of grid energy storage solutions. Additional drivers include the modernisation of the grid, represented by novel technologies such as smart grids where batteries aid in the capabilities of such technology.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 22, 2022

New, easily fabricated, high performance carbon microlattice electrodes could soon be used to make cheaper batteries powered by readily available sodium ions as an alternative to lithium-ion, according to researchers at Japan’s Tohoku University. New materials to drive the energy transition.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 15, 2022

Out with lithium, in with magnesium. Lithium is widely used in batteries in applications from small personal electronic devices up to electric vehicles and large-scale utility energy storage. But there are constant concerns about whether the supply can keep up with the growing demand as these technologies proliferate.

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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. What is a VFB, and how does it differ from the more ubiquitous lithium-ion battery?

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Clean Energy Canada

MAY 26, 2021

Driven largely (though not exclusively) by the rapid growth of electric vehicle (EV) manufacturing and popularity, the global market for lithium-ion batteries is expected to exceed $100 billion by 2030. With Asia and Europe accelerating, North America needs to catch up—or lose global market share. Both the U.S.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

In broad terms, the LEEF approach, which is patent-pending, utilises a so-called Rydberg matter ultra-dense lithium ammonia liquid metal fuel that when triggered with an electrical arc results in fusion occurring.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Romanian battery company Prime Batteries Technology, which produces lithium-ion batteries and tailor-made battery systems for the energy, automotive and industrial sectors, is partnering with the sustainable energy innovation engine EIT Innoenergy to scale up its battery production to 8GWh annually. Scaling up battery production in Europe.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

According to Bloomberg , producing 100 GWh/year would make Redwood a major US producer of cathodes, the equal of the largest producers in Asia. For example, it would take 6,147 recycled iPhone batteries to provide enough lithium for a Tesla Model Y, but just 166 iPhones to provide enough cobalt, according to BNEF.

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Charged

MARCH 11, 2024

There’s much hand-wringing in the press these days about battery raw materials such as lithium, cobalt and nickel. When you look at the global supply chain for rare earths across all three stages, Asia is dominant, and China in particular. Q&A with MP Materials’ Matt Sloustcher.

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Elemental Excelerator

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

First of all, critical minerals such as cobalt, lithium, graphite, manganese, and others are the building blocks of many clean technology applications. Even if we recycled 100% of lithium-ion batteries in 2030, that only gives us 10% of the cobalt demand for that year,” Megan says. Market Opportunity.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Conglomerate Marubeni, which includes Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway as a significant shareholder, distributes Skeleton’s products in Asia and aids in acquiring customers for Skeleton’s SuperBattery in the region. With financial close, TagEnergy announced Tesla, Habitat Energy and RES as project partners.

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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 Trump administration’s fiscal year 2020 budget proposal devoted $158 million to establish an advanced energy storage initiative within the Department of Energy (DOE).

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

This is because all these giga factories are now looking at scaling the global manufacturing operations for advanced lithium-ion manufacturing from 1000GWh to more than 5,000 GWh to 7,000 GWh within the next seven years. One of the critical challenges which are going to come up in the next 4-5 years is related to the supply chain.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 1, 2021

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. While Asia Pacific accounts for the largest total share of the e-bus market, North America is expected to be the fastest-growing. However, just 0.5 Courtesy of.

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Charged

AUGUST 16, 2022

Qichao Hu, founder and CEO of Massachusetts-based battery maker SES, recently told us, “It takes about 2 years to build a new battery gigafactory, but it takes at least 8 years (sometimes more than 10 years) to build a new lithium mine.”. It’s across the whole spectrum of materials involved in the lithium-ion battery supply chain.”.

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Charged

JANUARY 18, 2023

It takes a long time to relocate some processes which are today located mostly in Asia. My perception is, for EVs, it will be very complicated to have 100% of battery components coming from the US with the current technology, meaning with the current chemistry based on nickel, lithium, cobalt, manganese, graphite. .

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 18, 2021

Related: Tesla: the real environmental impact Cobalt is used in the cathode — “negatively charged electrode by which electrons enter an electrical device,” according to Dictionary.com — of lithium -ion batteries. Via Nikkei Asia and Clean Technica Image via Dylan Scarsone. Read the rest here:Â .

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Veolia has and continues to strongly disagree with Antero’s allegations,” said Carrie Griffiths, executive vice president and chief communications officer for Veolia North America. “In In southeast Asia, Veolia has worked on water treatment solutions for the cosmetics industry, and has recently developed new desalination technology.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

An update last year from Benchmark Materials Intelligence group noted that 148 of the 200 lithium-ion battery mega factories planned around the world were in China, with Europe and North America boasting just 21 and 11, respectively. We really need to make sure we've got that recycling piece in place," Rolton acknowledges.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Side-by-side: BYD vs Tesla This news may come as a surprise to those focused on the EV market in North America, but in many ways, Tesla is borrowing BYD’s playbook. The company is expected to expand across Asia, Australia, and Europe and is also pushing into Latin American markets.

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