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. Mining giant Glencore has also snapped up a stake in Britishvolt, which was last year valued at over $1bn.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 10, 2023

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. Quantum computing to advance solar PV materials How light could boost performance of fuel cells and lithium-ion batteries. Have you read?

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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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R-Squared Energy

OCTOBER 31, 2019

A key point they made in the email was that lead-acid batteries are 99% recyclable, while lithium-ion batteries are recycled at a rate below 5%. However, when I look at the trajectory, I see lithium-ion batteries steadily declining in price, while the price of lead-acid batteries is relatively stagnant. They agreed. Several things.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

It has since built a complete battery materials supply chain in Europe, and is about to build a new cathode and precursor production facility near Kingston, Ontario, which will be its fourth global gigafactory. Charged spoke with Robert Privette, Umicore’s Business Development Manager for North America.

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Clean Energy Trust

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Of note in October, GM and GE are collaborating to develop a rare earth materials supply chain for electric vehicles and renewable energy input materials, with a focus on setting up supply chains in North America and Europe (and, specifically, not in China, which dominates them today).

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 20, 2023

SuperBattery & supercapacitor financing Skeleton Technologies, which develops fast-charging energy storage for transportation, grid, automotive and industrial applications, has announced the closing of a €108 million ($114 million) funding round to develop next-generation tech, including new high-power battery technology.

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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. Join Enlit Europe in Frankfurt and be part of the conversation about the energy transition in Europe and beyond.

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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. Q&A with MP Materials’ Matt Sloustcher.

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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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Clean Energy Canada

MAY 26, 2021

This was the conclusion of an industry roundtable convened in the spring by Clean Energy Canada and attended by stakeholders across the supply chain: General Motors Canada, Lion Electric, the Mining Association of Canada, the Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association, Unifor, and others. In the Roadmap for a Renewed U.S.-Canada

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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. Outgunned on manufacturing scale, Europe is betting on research to uncover a homegrown secret sauce that could allow it to undercut Asian battery makers on price.

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Charged

JANUARY 18, 2023

We have been operating in the automotive industry for a long time. We are a recognized certification body for the IATF 16949, which is a major standard in automotive, and we are working with almost all the OEMs around the globe for different types of services. I joined BV in 2016. Why in the 1980s?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Automotive innovation in the UK has long been driven by internal combustion engine design, a craft that is set to become increasingly redundant as the EV transition gathers pace. Coventry Airport's [project] has an outline plan but no operator, everywhere else in Europe is getting precisely nowhere at the moment," he notes.

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Charged

MAY 26, 2020

From 90 million vehicles in 2019, LMC Automotive projects this year’s total could be as low as 70 million if the slowdown endures or new Covid outbreaks erupt. Those will be high-dollar, large luxury vehicles—the GMC Hummer EV pickup truck and the Cadillac Lyriq luxury crossover utility will be the first two launches for North America.

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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. sold in Europe during the first half of the year. sold in Europe during the first half of the year.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

  This week, we get nerdy mining ExxonMobil’s lithium announcement - is this lithium’s shale moment? Lithium Mobil-ization Source: Company presentations, Bloomberg Last week, ExxonMobil unveiled its first-ever lithium mining operation in Arkansas, marking its first major foray into lithium production.

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