Charged

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Battery recycler Li-Cycle has announced that its Alabama Spoke plant in Tuscaloosa has started commercial operations. The Alabama Spoke uses Li-Cycle’s patented technology to recycle and directly process full EV battery packs without any dismantling through a submerged shredding process that produces no wastewater.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Battery recycling and manufacturing company Ascend Elements (formerly known as Battery Resourcers ) is planning to open a battery recycling plant in Georgia by August of 2022, where it will recycle lithium, cobalt and nickel. Source: Ascend Elements.

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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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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

MAY 10, 2021

In 2020, Tesla deployed 18,700 tons of lithium carbonate equivalent (LCE) in the batteries of its new EVs, more than the next four EV makers (BYD, VW, Renault and Audi) combined, according to the report EV Battery Capacity and Battery Metals Tracker by Adamas Intelligence.

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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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Batteries Electric vehicle North America Automotive 114

Charged

MAY 26, 2022

Battery cell pioneer Britishvolt has agreed to buy Monbat Group subsidiary EAS, a cell manufacturer based in Nordhausen, Germany. EAS has over 25 years of experience in developing and producing large-format cylindrical lithium-ion cells from 7.5 The deal values EAS at €36 million. Ah to 50 Ah. Prominent customers include NASA.

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Charged

OCTOBER 5, 2022

As EV adoption grows, it’s plain that more EV raw materials will need to be mined and processed in North America (and Europe). A lithium mine in the pine forests northwest of Montreal provides an example of the challenges, as reported by the New York Times. The La Corne mine provides some examples of what could go wrong.

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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

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

As demand for lithium-ion batteries accelerates, recycling of raw materials will be an essential part of the circular EV ecosystem. However, in the near term, the primary source of recyclable battery material will be scrap material from battery production, according to Benchmark Mineral Intelligence ’s latest Recycling Report.

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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 2, 2022

Battery materials company Euro Manganese has announced that pilot plant samples of its HPEMM manganese metal have been validated as feedstock for battery cathode specialist Nano One ’s One-Pot and M2CAM cathode production technologies. The samples were produced at the Chvaletice Manganese Project in the Czech Republic.

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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

JANUARY 18, 2023

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, traceability is becoming a critical function in the EV industry. Q&A with OPTEL’s Ken Fallu.

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Batteries Medicine North America Europe 129

Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Protecting satellite imagery from fraud, Citopia network for a global battery passport and a high performance non-flammable battery option for warm climates are on the week’s technology radar. For example, the Battery Pass initiative has identified no less than 90 data attributes that could be included in a battery passport.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Early-adopting EV buyers seem likely to be a little more knowledgeable, and Tesla is taking the unprecedented step of giving buyers a choice between two alternative battery chemistries. LFP-based batteries have been the norm in the Chinese EV industry for years. I have a Model 3 on order and just got this about 10 minutes ago.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 30, 2020

A new partnership aims to demonstrate how bespoke circular-economy batteries can tackle the mounting problem of e-waste, specifically in relation to electric vehicles. This will enable Aceleron to repurpose over 90% of Eco Charger’s batteries for a second-life through an innovative ‘buy-back’ scheme.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Leading this week’s Smart Energy Finances is investment into CarbonScape, which will bring biographite – a wood chips-based alternative to graphite, sourced from forest waste – to Europe. EDF UK to develop three new grid-scale battery sites RTEi’s US Subsidiary RTEi has launched RTE international Inc.

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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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Greentown Labs

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Another example is the recent partnership between German behemoth BASF (the largest chemical producer in the world) and American Battery Technology Company (ABTC). These materials will then be sent back to Nanotech for battery production.

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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

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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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 15, 2022

A new advance opening the way for Mg-ion batteries, protections for birds around networks, Enel Green Power’s Sicily hydrogen lab and a plan to power Bitcoin mining with methane from landfills are in the technology radar. Out with lithium, in with magnesium. For the birds. The Safelines4birds project, with a €14 million ($14.4

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Methane Innovation Hydrogen Technology 52

Smart Energy International

JANUARY 29, 2023

A novel carbon-oxygen battery for long duration storage, harvesting energy in space and a thermometer that measures energy changes in semiconductors are in the week’s technology radar. Compared with Li-ion batteries , Graves anticipates that the CO battery will have a cost of about one tenth and a footprint three times smaller.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Energy harvesting brings carbon benefits, Fike Blue to quench battery thermal runaways and a quantum-space collaboration are on the week’s technology radar. They are battery-free, eliminating the need for regular servicing and battery replacement and they are easy to install without any special cabling or power source setups.

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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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Smart Energy International

MAY 15, 2022

New, grid-scale battery projects may be the best available solution to this problem. Grid operators can integrate massive batteries or a CAES system to increase capacity to support the grid. Honeywell announced last year that it had developed a new flow battery for long-duration ESS. The Department of Energy has secured $1.16

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 18, 2019

“As painful as it was to lose, it gave us confidence because we’d valued the market pretty closely,” Bill White, managing director of EnBW North America, told Greentech Media in the summer, adding that the demand from New York and New Jersey equates to “the largest regional offshore wind market in the world right now.”

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Clean Energy Canada

JULY 13, 2023

Lifecycle emissions commonly include emissions from mineral sourcing like mining or recycling, mineral processing, vehicle and battery manufacturing, car use and, in some cases, disposal and recycling at end of life. and Europe and 37% to 45% in China, depending largely on the emissions intensity of the electricity used to charge the vehicle.

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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 battery commercialization still a few years off. According to Wood Mackenzie, U.S.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Machine learning based battery charging protocols, propane as an energy efficient and environmentally friendly coolant for space cooling, the remotely controlled Robobug and a new light on nano-level electrical circuitry, satellite observations for energy development in Africa and a zero emission luxury catamaran are on the technology radar.

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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 Link Bloomberg’s Hyperdrive newsletter recently highlighted how lithium ion has come to dominate the stationary storage sector.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Rio Tinto says it will invest $98 million in a 34-megawatt PV array and 12-megawatt-hour lithium-ion battery system to help power its Koodaideri mine in Pilbara, Western Australia. The sector is also moving towards renewables because they are cheaper than fossil-fuel energy sources.

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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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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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R-Squared Energy

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Lithium-ion batteries were excluded from the solicitation. The CEC selected four energy storage projects incorporating vanadium flow batteries (“VFBs”) from North America and UK-based Invinity Energy Systems plc. megawatt-hours (MWh) of batteries across the four projects. Invinity’s total scope is 7.8

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