Smart Energy International

MAY 27, 2022

and Samsung SDI have announced agreements to establish an EV battery manufacturing facility in Kokomo, Indiana, US. The joint venture company – which consists of automotive manufacturing company Stellantis alongside battery and electronic materials manufacturer Samsung SDI – will invest over $2.5 Stellantis N.V.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

DuPont Supports You from Concept to Commercialization You have many choices when it comes to suppliers and material selection when considering electric vehicle battery pack assembly and thermal management. BETAMATE structural adhesives help ensure battery pack structural integrity by demonstrating stiffness, durability, and crash performance.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

This undisclosed manufacturing facility, recognized as one of the largest electric vehicle and battery production campuses in the country, plans to leverage Plug’s hydrogen fuel cells for effective and sustainable handling of its material fleet. The unveiling of Plug Power Inc.’s car manufacturer accelerates this shift. .’s

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Charged

MARCH 8, 2024

Media coverage of EVs tends to focus on the world’s largest auto markets: North America, Europe and Asia. JAC is also shipping thousands of JAC E10X and JAC Yiwei 3 EVs to Central and South America. kWh battery pack, and starts at around $22,500 in Mexico. The JAC E10X sports a 31.4

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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.

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Charged

AUGUST 24, 2020

It’s usually one of the first objections cited by EV naysayers: batteries can’t or won’t be recycled, and they contain hazardous materials that will end up in landfills. In fact, no such sinister scenario is likely—most of the components of Li-ion batteries are valuable, and it’s quite feasible, technically and economically, to recycle them.

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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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The Verge: Energy

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Here’s how Redwood Materials is putting recycling at the heart of the burgeoning battery belt. There’s a bit of a battery manufacturing boom going on. In 2021, battery manufacturing in the United States totaled approximately 55 gigawatt-hours’ worth of cells, or roughly enough batteries to produce 700,000 EVs.

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Charged

JULY 19, 2021

In 2020, the company partnered with GM to develop two new EVs based on GM’s Ultium batteries. Honda has already announced plans to sell only electrified vehicles in Europe by 2022, and to go all-electric in North America by 2040.

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Charged

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Chinese automakers have long dreamed of the day they would start exporting vehicles to Europe (and North America) in volume. The new G3 sports a battery pack from CATL with an energy density of 180 Wh/kg. Thanks to the Continent’s burgeoning interest in EVs, that day may be at hand.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 22, 2022

This new raise is hoped to assist Sympower in transforming Europe’s electricity grid. The funds will allow Sympower to serve more industrial and commercial customers across Europe, including demand-side loads, renewable energy production, EV charging, and battery storage facilities. million) pumped into the company.

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2023

Part of the expansion is set to include the opening an advanced battery manufacturing plant later this year in Kidlington, Oxfordshire, Forrest told the broadcaster, as he highlighted the potential for up to 300 new jobs. I want to expand it from there and I want to take that technology to Australia, to North America.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Analyst cautions that demand for fossil fuel from automotive market will only drop by 24 per cent by 2050, despite bullish predictions for EV market. By mid-century, 86 per cent of automobile sales in Europe, 81 per cent of sales in China and 78 per cent of sales in North America will be EVs, it said.

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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

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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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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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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Swedish automotive Polestar, alongside a consortium of grid sector stakeholders, is launching a large-scale vehicle-to-grid (V2G) project in Gothenburg, Sweden, piloting a fleet of Polestar 3 cars. The owner plugs in their vehicle and the VPP and smart charging tech opimises battery use for their transport needs while supporting the grid.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Additionally, bidirectional charging – when electricity flows from the EV battery to the grid and then back to the vehicle – is a core component of this system and was analysed by ARC to grow at the fastest CAGR of 5.12% among the entire segment of charging types for electric vehicles over the forecast period.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 10, 2023

Ford and BMW have been investigating how quantum computing can advance the development of their respective battery and fuel cell vehicles. As such new materials for batteries for example is one of the early use cases for quantum computing and the automotive industry also is one of the early adopters of the method. Have you read?

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Lithium Batteries Hydrogen Automotive 106

Clean Energy Trust

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

More North American Battery Materials Supply Chain News As we discussed last month , there has been a surge in activity lately in the North American battery materials supply chain. “As h/t Trucks FoT Link Research suggests using recycled battery cathodes can actually make better batteries?—?the

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Sales of plug-in cars soar in 'plate change’ month of September, as automotive sector continues to battle supply chain issues. Battery electric vehicles make up but a small fraction of cars on the road, so we need to ensure every lever is pulled to encourage motorists to make the shift if our green goals are to be met.".

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Charged

MAY 13, 2020

Over the first 10 years of their existence, most modern battery-electric cars have been compact hatchbacks or Teslas. What follows is a list of battery-electric pickup models expected to go on sale in the US over the next two to three years. The blue-oval company has lagged in battery-electric vehicles for a decade.

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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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Charged

JANUARY 12, 2023

Electrifying transportation is going to require beaucoup batteries, and for a raft of reasons, those batteries need to be built near the vehicle markets they serve (not shipped halfway around the world, as is often the case today). Atlas Public Policy (via NPR ) puts the figure at $73 billion for US battery plants in 2022.

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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 106

Charged

JANUARY 23, 2023

The next generation of high-power automotive interconnects include those for vehicle batteries/drive trains, and other internal systems; as well as external connectors for EV charging stations designed to handle the larger vehicle batteries with higher amperages that deliver faster charging speeds.

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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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Charged

JANUARY 23, 2024

When it comes to the EV race, China hasn’t just lapped the US and Europe—they’re running circles around us. As Michael Barnard reports in a recent CleanTechnica article, China currently has around 600,000 battery-electric buses operating in its cities. No segment illustrates this embarrassment better than the electric bus market.

Electricity 119

Electricity North America Organic Automotive 119

Hydrogen Fuel News

APRIL 25, 2024

Initially serving as President of Vehicle Operations for Hyzon Motors when first coming on board October 2021, Griffin stepped into the role of President for North America in April of last year. The company has been diligently applying for many patents in the USA, Europe and Asia, with some already having been granted.

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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.

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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. 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.

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Charged

JANUARY 5, 2024

Moreover, it won the 2024 North American Utility of the Year award this month, voted on by a panel of 50 automotive journalists from the U.S. That clears the first hurdle to qualify Kia’s electric three-row utility for the $7,500 federal purchase incentive (details on battery minerals and assembly are yet to be revealed).

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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.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 5, 2020

and Europe, including home chargers and public charging stations, making it the single largest EV charging system provider in the world. 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.  million in North America.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

In both the UK and mainland Europe, rates of EV adoption have struggled to keep pace with soaring demand, especially from corporate customers, as a shortage of battery metals and components has further complicated manufacturers' multi-billion dollar efforts to boost their EV production capacity.

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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 investment will support battery research and innovation across Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Sweden. Dwarfing U.S.

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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.

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