Charged

JANUARY 29, 2024

Marshall County, Mississippi, is the future site of a planned joint venture of Accelera, the zero-emissions segment of Cummins; Daimler Trucks & Buses US Holding, a subsidiary of Daimler Trucks ; and US commercial truck maker PACCAR , which produces diesel and electric models under the Kenworth, Peterbilt and DAF brands. Source: PACCAR

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GreenBiz

JUNE 1, 2021

5 electric bus makers shifting into next gear. battery-electric buses are projected to remain the lowest-carbon option in every part of the country, even on current electricity grids. Transdev 7900 electric buses. . Shaandiin Cedar. Tue, 06/01/2021 - 00:05. What’s the most logical route? In the U.S., Courtesy of.

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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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ThinkGeoEnergy

AUGUST 17, 2023

Lithium produced at Hell’s Kitchen will support Stellantis vehicles’ battery electric vehicle (BEV) eligibility for consumer incentives under the U.S. This new agreement incorporates the original lithium supply agreement signed by both companies in June 2022 for up to 25,000 metric tons of LHM per year.

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Charged

JANUARY 17, 2023

Nevada-based Aqua Metals has begun operating a pilot battery recycling facility at the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center. Feedstock has been introduced into the automated system, enabling recovery of valuable critical minerals from spent lithium-ion batteries.

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Charged

APRIL 28, 2023

Motiv Power Systems has been in business for 14 years, providing electric step vans, box trucks and shuttle buses with payloads of 2-6 tons. The company has deployed more than 150 vehicles with fleets across North America. Now the company has announced its next-generation electric trucks for medium-duty fleets.

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Charged

JANUARY 17, 2023

The EV Metals Group acquired the battery materials and technology business of Johnson Matthey in 2022. Now subsidiary EV Metals Arabia has advanced its plans to build a battery material processing plant in Saudi Arabia. Construction is scheduled to commence in Q3 of this year.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

The commonly held view that lithium-ion batteries are not being recycled is not true. China recycled around 67,000 tons of lithium-ion batteries last year, or 69 percent of all the stock available for recycling worldwide, according to Hans Eric Melin, founder of U.K.-based based Circular Energy Storage.

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Charged

MARCH 14, 2023

Battery recycler Aqua Metals has demonstrated the recovery of high-purity lithium hydroxide from lithium-ion battery black mass at the company’s Li AquaRefining recycling facility in Nevada. This new capability can have a profound impact on the lithium battery industry in North America.

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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

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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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Department of Energy (US DOE) has published the results of a study done by the Lawrence Berkey National Laboratory quantifying the domestic lithium resources from the geothermal brine in the Salton Sea region in California. resource of lithium due to the brine-hosted lithium in the deep subsurface geothermal reservoir.

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Charged

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Sponsored by MK North America. The production of batteries for the electric vehicle industry is growing and changing rapidly, based on the expansion of knowledge within the industry. This stainless steel conveyor is used to convey raw product in the battery industry up an incline. So let’s get started.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

APRIL 29, 2024

The tax credits will support the critical development of the Hell’s Kitchen Lithium and Power Project in Imperial County. CTR had recently broken ground on the construction of the first of seven facilities for what would eventually be the “Lithium Valley Campus.” billion in private investment over the next five years.

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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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Charged

OCTOBER 26, 2022

It’s safe to say that, five years ago, few corporate leaders gave a thought to the supply of batteries. Nowadays the problems and opportunities of the battery supply chain are hot topics in executive suites far beyond the automotive industry, and a growing number of market research companies are churning out detailed reports on the sector.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 31, 2022

Lithium slim energy reserve (LiSER) has been introduced as a nickel and cobalt free cell technology platform. As such it is expected to significantly impact the electric vehicle market in particular among others, where these factors are important drivers of uptake in a burgeoning market.

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CleanTech San Diego

AUGUST 21, 2023

and Cleantech San Diego member Controlled Thermal Resources (CTR) announced a major investment of over $100 million from Stellantis to advance the development of CTR’s Hell’s Kitchen project, the world’s largest geothermal lithium project with a total resource capacity to produce up to 300,000 metric tons of lithium carbonate equivalent each year.

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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.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

In a filing Monday with the Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC), Dominion Energy Virginia proposed a groundbreaking battery storage pilot project that the company says could significantly increase the length of time batteries can discharge electricity to the grid.

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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 15, 2023

But will lithium follow that same trend? Last year saw lithium prices soar due to increased demand for lithium-ion batteries as well as supply chain impacts due to the Covid-19 pandemic. In February 2022, battery-grade lithium carbonate soared to $72,000 per metric ton, which was nine times higher than the 2020 price.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Mercedes has set the starting price for the eSprinter, its first all-electric van in North America, at $71,886.12. It is equipped with a 113 kWh lithium iron phosphate battery and offers a WLTP range of up to 249 miles.

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TechCrunch: Climate

AUGUST 17, 2023

Ford is partnering with South Korean battery manufacturers SK On and EcoPro BM to build a cathode manufacturing facility in Quebec, Canada. billion (USD $890 million) joint investment will provide battery materials to supply future Ford electric vehicles. The onshoring of battery factories in the U.S. The CAD $1.2

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ThinkGeoEnergy

JANUARY 19, 2024

The California Energy Commission (CEC) has announced a Grant Funding Opportunity for projects that seek to address corrosion and/or scaling in geothermal installations in California or advance technologies to enhance extraction of lithium and other valuable minerals from geothermal brine at the Salton Sea geothermal field.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Department of Energy (DOE) has announced the winning teams of the first-ever American-Made Geothermal Lithium Extraction Prize. The three teams will split a total of USD 2 million for prototyped innovations to directly extract lithium from geothermal brine. jobs and a strong domestic supply chain.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Redwood Materials , the battery materials firm founded by Tesla cofounder JB Straubel, has launched a battery recycling pilot in California that aims to “establish efficient, safe and effective recovery pathways for end-of-life hybrid and EV battery packs.” Source: Redwood Materials.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 20, 2022

North Carolina-based Pine Gate Renewables has announced the signing of two separate MoUs with EnerVenue and Urban Electric Power. The solar and energy storage developer will be purchasing 2.4GWh of EnerVenue’s nickel hydrogen BESS and 4.5GWh of Urban Electric’s zinc alkaline battery systems. Urban Electric Power.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 3, 2022

AI to monitor bird interactions with solar PV, lithium iron phosphate battery production coming in Europe, a lithium mine for EV batteries and the energy infrastructure requirements in the Moon to Mars exploration are on the week’s technology radar. First lithium iron phosphate battery cell prototype in Europe.

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Charged

MARCH 19, 2021

As global demand for EVs increases, many are questioning the adequacy of the existing battery supply chain. Elon Musk said in October that a shortage of battery cells is preventing Tesla from ramping production of its Semi. She noted that a phone has one battery cell, and a laptop has a dozen, whereas an EV may require thousands.

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Charged

JULY 12, 2023

Mack Trucks has announced that dealers are now taking orders for the Mack MD Electric, the brand’s first medium-duty electric vehicle. The MD Electric is designed to complement the diesel Mack MD, introduced in 2020. The company’s first EV was the Mack LR Electric, which began production in December 2021.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The BMW Group has confirmed that it will switch from prismatic battery cells to cylindrical cells for its next-gen Neue Klasse [New Class] architecture. Compared to the prismatic cells of the fifth BMW battery cell generation, the nickel content is higher on the cathode side, while the cobalt content is reduced.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The startup aims to boost the North American battery supply chain by producing an iron-based cathode. Iron-based battery chemistries have long dominated the market in China, while US and European automakers have mostly used nickel-based chemistries.

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R-Squared Energy

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The objective was to develop a clear understanding of the role that long-duration energy storage (10 hours or greater) can play in helping to meet the state’s mandates to decarbonize the electricity sector by 2045. Lithium-ion batteries were excluded from the solicitation. Invinity’s total scope is 7.8

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 19, 2020

Two flow battery companies are about to complete a months-long effort to combine forces. North America’s Avalon Battery will absorb publicly traded British company RedT Energy through a reverse takeover, pending shareholder approval. Lithium-ion batteries represent 99 percent of new grid storage capacity.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) has announced that its proprietary Detroit ePowertrain will power the upcoming Freightliner eCascadia and Freightliner eM2, as part of Daimler Trucks’ strategy to establish a uniform basic architecture for its global line-up of battery-electric 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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Charged

JUNE 2, 2021

BYD, a major manufacturer of transit buses, is introducing a battery-electric Type D school bus. The new e-bus will use BYD’s lithium iron phosphate battery, and BYD’s proprietary powertrain, which features dual in-wheel traction motors. It can seat up to 84, and can be equipped with an ADA-compliant liftgate.

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