Charged

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Tees Valley Lithium (TVL), a subsidiary of Alkemy Capital Investments, has received planning permission to build a lithium hydroxide refinery at the Wilton International Chemicals Park in Teesside, UK, following an environmental impact assessment and local consultation over an 18-month period.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Geothermal Engineering Limited (GEL) has announced plans of producing around 10o tonnes of Lithium Carbon Equivalent (LCE) per year from the company’s geothermal projects in Cornwall, UK. High lithium concentrations at the United Downs site had been reported as early as 2021. GEL was recently awarded £1.8m

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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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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The demand for electric vehicles has never been higher. Government leaders see the elimination of internal combustion vehicles as a crucial step to reduce global emissions and slow the effects of climate change. electric vehicle market at one time by an automaker. Courtesy: Ford). billion by 2027 , up from $16.19

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Business Green

JANUARY 5, 2022

Achievement marks major step forward in ongoing push to build a homegrown supply of lithium for burgeoning electric vehicle market. The mining company yesterday announced it has produced commercial-grade lithium from mica minerals found in granite rock at its government-backed pilot plant near Roche.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

A new study finds that investments in R&D on materials and chemistry were key, while economies of scale contributed less. Their work suggests that there is still considerable room for further improvement in electrochemical battery technologies, she says. The R&D contribution didn’t end when commercialization began.

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Charged

APRIL 5, 2024

Afraid there won’t be enough recycling plants to recycle EV batteries when they start reaching end of life in large numbers? Encouraged by generous government incentives, companies have been investing heavily in battery plants. Current plans for recycling plants see capacity greatly outstripping the supplies of waste batteries.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Miner says funds will go towards feasibility studies for its flagship Trealour hard rock lithium mining project and further prospecting in Cornwall. Specialist technology metals investor TechNet has agreed to invest an initial £9m at 13.5p

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Charged

JUNE 2, 2021

Solid Power, a producer of solid-state EV batteries, has announced a $130-million Series B investment round led by the BMW Group, Ford and Volta Energy Technologies. Ford and BMW have also expanded existing joint development agreements with Solid Power to secure all-solid-state batteries for future EVs.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

billion in funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law has been awarded to 20 companies across 12 states for extracting and processing lithium and graphite, battery manufacturing and the demonstration of new approaches. The DOE has announced that a total of $2.8 million EVs per year and enough nickel for 400,000 EVs per year.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 3, 2022

South 8 Technologies has raised $12 million in Series A financing to commercialise next-generation electrolytes for lithium-ion batteries. NYPA seeks to replace gas peaker plants with battery storage Basque gigafactory can unlock the holy grail of energy storage says research boss. Have you read? Have you read?

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 26, 2024

In an exclusive interview with CarbonScape’s Oliver Foster, Yusuf Latief discusses the company’s success to date and what their alternative to graphite signals for the battery market going forward. I was fortunate enough to receive a job offer from a boutique investment bank in Perth that needed someone with my expertise.

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Clean Energy Canada

JULY 13, 2023

Electric vehicles now make up 9% of new car sales in Canada. and Quebec, the market share is even higher, with electric vehicles making up around 20% and 14% of new cars sold in each province, respectively. Canada’s electricity grid is currently 84% non-emitting.

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Global Renewable News

AUGUST 20, 2023

Highlights Stellantis invests over $100 million to advance the development of geothermal lithium project in California and encourage decarbonization of battery electric vehicle supply chains N.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 23, 2022

billion) investment in a cylindrical battery plant. It is said to be the first-ever cylindrical-type battery manufacturing plant in North America. The Korean battery manufacturer will be the cylindrical battery plant’s sole investor. New EV start-ups using cylindrical batteries are on the rise. trillion ($1.4

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 26, 2024

Despite immense cost cuts and their deployment in the power sector last year more than doubling, batteries need to lead a sixfold increase in global energy storage deployments to enable the world to meet 2030 targets, says the International Energy Agency (IEA). But today, the energy sector accounts for over 90% of overall battery demand.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Ford plans to invest $3.5 billion to build an LFP battery plant in Marshall, Michigan. BlueOval Battery Park Michigan will initially employ 2,500 people when production begins in 2026. As the company rapidly scales EV production, introducing LFP batteries will also enable Ford to produce more vehicles.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

While the cost of gas has been steadily rising for more than a week in many states, those who want to avoid exorbitant gasoline prices altogether may be considering alternative transportation options — such as electric vehicles (EVs). Over time, EV batteries will slowly lose their capacity. The Environmental Concerns Involved.

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Green Living Guy

JANUARY 3, 2022

There are many environmentally friendly and futuristic reasons why investing in an electric vehicle is an excellent idea. The post Buying An Electric Vehicle: Crucial Things To Consider appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The French mining company Eramet and Électricité de Strasbourg (ÉS) have inaugurated a new pilot project for the direct extraction of lithium from geothermal brine at the Rittershoffen geothermal heat plant operated by ES in Eastern France.

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Charged

MAY 2, 2022

Startup Statevolt, a sister company of Britishvolt and Italvolt , plans to invest $4 billion to construct a new battery factory in California’s Imperial Valley. Once fully operational, the new gigafactory will have an annual battery production capacity of 54 GWh—enough to equip around 650,000 EVs. Source: Statevolt.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

A seemingly ground-breaking project to create a circular end-of-life supply chain for the electric vehicle industry is being led by EMR Metals Recycling. Under current EU law and also post Brexit, manufacturers retain responsibility for the safe disposal of electric car batteries.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

October’s SoftBank-led investment in iron flow battery startup ESS represented an unusual event in 2019: a piece of good news for the flow battery sector. EnSync Energy Systems pivoted away from flow batteries last year and folded in March. kilowatt, 30-kilowatt-hour flow battery in Brussels.

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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 15, 2023

When prices are high, oil companies tend to invest a lot more into increasing production. But there is a lag between those investments and additional supply. That often results in a price crash in which investments dry up. But will lithium follow that same trend? So, prices may be high for a while, which can also 1).

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Charged

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Lithium-ion battery prices have been dropping for so long that industry players and pundits tend to factor ever-cheaper cells into their predictions, and many have made (dubious) comparisons to Moore’s Law, one of the core tenets of the computer industry.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Technology companies continued to curb their ambitions for manufacturing electric vehicles in 2019. At one point, Apple was reportedly planning to launch an electric vehicle by 2019 , but after much hype around its secretive initiative called Project Titan, the iPhone maker shifted gears on EVs several years ago.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Redwood Materials , the battery materials firm founded by Tesla cofounder JB Straubel, has announced a partnership with Ford. The two companies will work together to “create a closed loop for battery recycling and a domestic supply chain for critical battery materials.”.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 10, 2022

A report from the Green Finance Institute’s Coalition for the Decarbonisation of Road Transport (CDRT) illustrates how the UK can become a global player in electric vehicle (EV) batteries if billions of pounds are invested now to build a battery supply chain. EVs and financing the drive to net zero.

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Financial Times: Energy

AUGUST 31, 2023

Industry executives say stance on lithium chemicals should bolster investment in electric vehicle supply chain

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Green Living Guy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Then twin Battery Plants In Kentucky. Investment? 27, 2021 – Ford Motor Company is announcing big build your own electric vehicle plans. All to bring electric vehicles at scale. The post Ford To Go In on America’s Shift To Electric Vehicles appeared first on Green Living Guy. Can you say $11.4B

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Advanced Propulsion Centre hands out grants to 22 projects aimed at developing a UK supply chain for batteries and other EV components. These successful projects will support the UK automotive industry, by increasing confidence in large-scale manufacturing investments and building electrified supply chains," he said. "It

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Charged

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Lithium-ion battery firm NOVONIX has received 1.675 million Canadian dollars ($1.3 million US) from Next Generation Manufacturing Canada (NGen) as part of a larger investment in building a battery development and manufacturing facility in Nova Scotia.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2022

Dutch carmaker behind brands such as Fiat, Chrysler, and Vauxhall invests in Vulcan, which aims to extract lithium in Germany without using fossil fuels. The firm's technique involves using renewable energy to separate lithium from geothermal brines.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

BMW i Ventures will invest in Our Next Energy (ONE), a Michigan-based energy storage company that’s working to develop longer-range, lower-cost batteries. ONE will use the investment to scale production of its first products. ONE has demonstrated two proprietary technologies.

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Charged

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Stellantis and Massachusetts-based solid-state battery developer Factorial Energy have signed a joint development agreement to advance Factorial’s high-voltage solid-state battery technology. The agreement also includes a strategic investment from Stellantis. Source: Stellantis.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 12, 2022

PNE), an emerging growth company engaged in the regeneration of lithium-ion battery (LIB) material, announced its closure of a seed funding round at $7 million for LIB recycling. Their recycling recovers much of the structure and composition of the used cathode, along with the materials (cobalt and lithium). PNE’s LIB recycling.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Mining giant announces investment in Slovakian R&D centre in support of plans to develop European 'battery ecosystem'. The investment, financial details for which were not disclosed, will support the completion of InoBat's research and development centre and pilot battery line in Voderady, Slovakia.

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