Charged

DECEMBER 27, 2021

BASF , a producer of cathode active materials (CAM), plans to consolidate some of its business into a new legal entity called BASF Automotive Catalysts and Recycling beginning in January of 2022. billion ($5 billion) in battery materials and recycling. BASF also plans to expand its CAM manufacturing in Asia, Europe and North America.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The Volkswagen Group and the Government of Canada have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) under which they will investigate opportunities for Canada to contribute to VW’s global and regional battery supply chains. Canada is committed to building a strong and reliable automotive and battery supply chain here in North America.”.

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Charged

JUNE 8, 2022

Battery cathode materials specialist Nano One has announced the acquisition of Johnson Matthey Battery Materials (JMBM), a Canadian company that operates one of the few LFP cathode production facilities in North America. The deal includes the company’s LFP battery production capacity in Candiac, Quebec.

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Charged

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The company broadcasts anti-EV misinformation in TV ads and executive speeches , and lobbies governments to water down support for EV adoption, but meanwhile it hedges its bets, developing new EVs for the Chinese market and doing battery research with partners such as Panasonic and BYD. Now Toyota has announced that it will invest some $3.4

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Built for virtual design and commissioning using proven automotive specific architecture and network guidelines reduces risk and accelerates the use of new technologies and innovations. Reserve your spot—it’s free! Additionally, solutions to the Top 5 challenges will be explored.

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Charged

JUNE 27, 2023

Applications include the LytCell lithium-sulfur EV battery, lightweight composites and unique on-board sensors. Lyten’s lithium-sulfur batteries have a 60% smaller carbon footprint than lithium-ion batteries since they do not contain nickel, cobalt, or manganese. Source: Stellantis

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Lithium Batteries North America Technology 52

Charged

MARCH 16, 2023

Around 15 big ones will reportedly be invested in battery production and raw material sourcing. The Group and its battery company PowerCo have selected St. Thomas in Ontario as the site of a new battery gigafactory. From left: Oliver Blume, CEO Volkswagen Group; Thomas Schmall, Group Board Member Technology; Hon.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Redwood Materials , the battery recycling venture founded by former Tesla CTO JB Straubel, has signed an agreement to recycle scrap and defective battery cells for Envision AESC, which manufactures batteries for the Nissan LEAF in Smyrna, Tennessee. To make the batteries the world needs in 10 years, the industry will need 1.5

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Charged

MAY 25, 2022

The company says its Plymouth facility offers “some of the most extensive EV battery and EVSE testing capabilities in North America to assist automotive OEM and tier suppliers.”. The facility’s footprint has been doubled, to 200,000 square feet. Source: Intertek.

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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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Batteries Cooling Electric vehicle North America 116

Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Digital transparency company Everledger has launched what they tout as a world-first battery passport pilot with automotive manufacturer Ford Motor Company to ensure responsible recycling of EV batteries. EV battery tracking. EV battery visibility.

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Recycling Recycling Batteries Blockchain 106

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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Clean Energy Canada

MAY 18, 2021

OTTAWA — As Canada’s largest trading partners transform their economies to be cleaner and more competitive, one aspect of that shift is clear: batteries will be the engines of the modern world. Canada has the right ingredients for a successful battery sector, the experts told Clean Energy Canada in a roundtable convened in March.

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Batteries North America Automotive Electric vehicle 115

Charged

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

For most car buyers, their technical automotive knowledge amounts to this: they know a car has an engine (or motor), and they want the biggest, most powerful one they can afford. LFP-based batteries have been the norm in the Chinese EV industry for years. Is this confirmation that the Asia/Europe LFP Model 3 is coming to North America?

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Batteries North America Patents Europe 126

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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Construction Batteries North America Electric vehicle 52

Charged

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

It’s equipped with 327 kWh of battery capacity, and the low battery placement results in a lower center of gravity, and thus enhanced stability while operating. The e-trucks were sold by authorized dealer Safetek Emergency Vehicles. REV Fire Group introduced the Vector fire truck in August 2021. Source: REV Group.

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Electricity North America Automotive Electric vehicle 132

Charged

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Automotive supplier Webasto showcased its modular battery system, thermal management system, and charging station at the recent SEMA show in Las Vegas. The CV standard battery system is available in 400 V and 800 V versions. Each battery features 35 kWh of energy. Up to 10 packs can be used for a combined 350 kWh.

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Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Batteries North America 67

Charged

MARCH 20, 2023

By Kevin Alberts Vice President and General Manager, Power Signal Solutions Business Unit at Molex An electrified vehicle future is on the horizon, as global automakers announce new electric fleets and invest in new technologies and EV battery plants to fuel next-generation innovations.

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Automotive 137

Charged

APRIL 12, 2022

Universal Technical Institute (UTI), an automotive-focused technical school with locations in nine states, has selected Bosch to support the development of new courseware covering battery-electric vehicles for students enrolled in the school’s automotive technician training programs. Source: Universal Technical Institute.

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Automotive North America Electric vehicle Demand 128

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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Charged

APRIL 8, 2022

GreenPower Motor Company (NASDAQ: GP), a manufacturer and distributor of electric medium- and heavy-duty vehicles, has launched the Nano BEAST: a purpose-built, battery-electric Type A school bus with a range of up to 150 miles. Various state vouchers and federal funding programs are available to help school districts go all-electric.

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Electricity North America Automotive Health 128

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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Green Living Guy

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

They are developing a domestic supply of this critical resource to the North America electric vehicle industry. For that reason, the global automotive and energy storage industries will be competing […]. Snow Lake Lithium shares a plan to develop the world’s first all-electric Lithium mine in Manitoba, Canada.

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Lithium North America Electricity Electric vehicle 98

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 6, 2020

Indiana-based Optimal has been providing engineering services to automotive OEMs for over 33 years. Optimal-EV’s S1LF will feature a battery system from Proterra, featuring 113 kWh of energy capacity and over 125 miles of driving range. The company’s Engineering group has focused on EV system design since 2015.

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Electric vehicle Batteries Electricity North America 80

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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North America Automotive Asia Europe 98

Charged

MAY 7, 2021

As demand for EVs escalates, the supply of batteries could become a bottleneck. Global firms are collectively planning to build 80 new battery gigafactories (sorry Tesla, but everyone’s calling them that now). That is because the kilowatt hour (KWh) battery capacity required per vehicle is likely to rise as well.

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Batteries North America Electric vehicle Demand 87

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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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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Batteries Electricity North America Electric vehicle 40

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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Electricity North America Automotive Batteries 120

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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Electricity Electric vehicle North America Hydrogen 545

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. It’s a very bold target,” said Yachiyo Tanaka, an analyst at automotive research company Fourin.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

A significant impediment to broader EV adoption is both a public charging infrastructure that can support long-distance travel and chargers that can recharge an EV battery in a time that drivers will accept. Currently, 300 kW chargers can recharge a battery in under 15 minutes. Figure 1 shows several types of charging stations.

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Automotive Batteries North America Organic 137

Smart Energy International

JULY 22, 2022

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. Hon Hai and NXP have outlined more than 10 automotive products for the first stage, which will soon be in development.

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

Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 29, 2023

has initiated its new hydrogen FCEV program for North America, making way for its next step to build a vehicle assembly facility and green hydrogen production plant in Shawinigan, Quebec. Stéphane Gagnon will be the lead engineer for the Quebec-based North American hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV) development program.

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North America Hydrogen Electric vehicle Technology 111

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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Fossil fuels North America Europe Automotive 91

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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