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. To combat this, the International Energy Agency (IEA) predicts sales of up to 44 million electric vehicles (EVs) a year by 2030.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 10, 2023

The decline was attributable to record price levels in Europe and Asia in 2022, rising nearly threefold in Europe and doubling in the Asian LNG spot market. Russia’s disruption of energy imports skyrocketed natural gas and coal prices to all-time highs in Europe and Asia. Henry Hub prices rose over 50% to average $6.5/MMBtu

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The requirement for a battery passport, which is mandated in the EU Battery Regulation and set to come in others, is based on the need for a standardised traceability framework to promote circularity, efficiency and resilience in the supply chain as batteries proliferate, particularly with their use in electric vehicles. Have you read?

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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.

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Clean Energy Trust

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

100,000 electric vehicles represents about 20% of Hertz’ total vehicle fleet. It’s also a different approach than rental car companies usually take, which is to buy base model vehicles at deep discounts. Renting a car is an extremely low-commitment way to test out an electric vehicle.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Despite the growing popularity of electric vehicles , the slow charging time still puts off many from making the switch, while at the same time speeding up the charging process risks damaging the battery and reducing its lifespan. Propane – sustainable alternative for air conditioning.

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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. Do you think these types of alternatives might help prop Europe up for a competitive come-back? Let me know.

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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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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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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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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 10, 2023

Quantum computing to advance solar PV materials How light could boost performance of fuel cells and lithium-ion batteries. Ford’s focus has been on simulating the chemistry of lithium-ion batteries with the eventual goal to improve their performance and safety. Have you read? Ford and Li-ion batteries.

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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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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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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 15, 2022

Out with lithium, in with magnesium. Lithium is widely used in batteries in applications from small personal electronic devices up to electric vehicles and large-scale utility energy storage. But there are constant concerns about whether the supply can keep up with the growing demand as these technologies proliferate.

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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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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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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

At first glance, the electric vehicle (EV) sector appears to be an industry that has been able to avoid the worst of these supply chain challenges. There's two counterweights here: on the one hand supply is strained for Europe and the US; they have not been able to manufacture as quickly as they would need to," he said. "On

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Clean Energy Canada

OCTOBER 4, 2019

From our electric-bus manufacturers supplying buses across North America to the Canadian technology that turns trash into fuel now found across Europe, Canada’s clean-energy industries and technologies will keep us internationally competitive. Consider the hybrid- and electric-vehicle industry.

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Charged

JULY 9, 2020

electric vehicles), stationary energy storage and microgrids. Non-utility markets are showing up with six types of services: demand response; energy efficiency; distributed solar; electric vehicles (or mobile energy storage); and stationary energy storage. What do the utilities think of all this?

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

New blockchain startup CarbonEnfo hits the market running, the ChatGPT fusion ‘ambassador’ and a graphene nanotube facility in development in Europe for EV batteries are on the week’s technology radar.

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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. for the stable supply of batteries for the company’s electric vehicles. Register now.

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Mr. Sustainability

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Worldwide, DNV predicts that passenger electric vehicles are likely to start outselling their internal combustion engine counterparts from 2032 onwards. In North America, Europe and China this will take place well before 2030. Not just on the uptake of electric vehicles (EVs) but on the energy system as a whole.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

AUGUST 31, 2023

It is modular and clean, meaning that it allows for onsite assembly for powering industries in North America, using green energy that is also cost competitive with fossil fuels, according to GH Power. 300 miles 1600 miles 2800 miles Zero Hydrogen Pipelines Page 5 of 7 Is a fuel cell car considered to be an electric vehicle?

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Clean Energy Canada

MAY 26, 2021

Driven largely (though not exclusively) by the rapid growth of electric vehicle (EV) manufacturing and popularity, the global market for lithium-ion batteries is expected to exceed $100 billion by 2030. With Asia and Europe accelerating, North America needs to catch up—or lose global market share.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Enphase is a relative latecomer to this competition in North America, having delayed the launch of Encharge from an initial late 2019 target date. kilowatt-hour units or in a three-unit, 10 kWh configuration, and they use lithium-ion batteries from China-based manufacturer A123. Encharge systems come in 3.36

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

APAC, starting with China, Japan, Korea, Australia, and New Zealand as the first region; India, the Russian sub-continent as the second region; Europe, the Middle East, and Africa as the third region, and then North and South America as the fourth region. We have divided the world in four regions.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 1, 2021

public transit bus market consisted of electric buses at the end of 2017 — a nascent market when compared to deployment rates of 12-14 percent in Europe and Asia. Success for AB Volvo in Europe has been largely driven by regional emissions reduction goals. and Canada, making it the largest e-bus manufacturer in North America.

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Charged

JANUARY 18, 2023

I finished my career at PSA being an electric vehicle project manager. And whatever it is, a combustion engine or electric vehicle, the need for traceability will continue. I joined BV in 2016. Before that, I worked for the PSA Group [now Stellantis] for eleven years. You have Industry 4.0

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Cobalt-free cathodes for lithium-ion batteries, routes to new materials with quantum computing, space observations to understand the climate impacts of airborne mineral dusts and the XPENG X2 flying EV are on the week’s technology radar. Cobalt-free cathode for lithium-ion batteries. XPENG X2 EV takes to the sky.

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Charged

MAY 26, 2020

For those in the electric-car world, the question is more pointed: Will the pandemic hurt the growth of electric vehicles over the next year? A few pessimists suggest that low gas prices will slash consumer purchases of plug-in vehicles, just as hybrid sales vary directly with the cost of gasoline. Three years?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

At the site of a former coal power station on the Northumberland coast, work is underway on one of Britain's most ambitious industrial projects, a battery production plant expected to provide a hub for the UK's burgeoning electric vehicle (EV) industry and bring up to 8,000 jobs to the region.

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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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CleanTechnica

MARCH 16, 2023

The EU today unveiled two draft laws in response to the US subsidies that it fears are luring European cleantech companies to North America. T&E welcomes self-sufficiency targets for battery raw materials and production goals for clean tech.

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CleanTechnica

DECEMBER 8, 2019

CleanTechnica has a new report out today, one highlighting the results of several thousand surveys of electric vehicle drivers in the US, Canada, and Europe. This initial report covers findings from North America and the UK.

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CleanTechnica

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Tesla dominates the world’s electric vehicle market by any measure. The company’s Model 3 is currently the best-selling vehicle of any kind in Norway and the Netherlands, and it’s by far the best-selling electric vehicle just about everywhere in North America and Europe.

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