R-Squared Energy

JANUARY 31, 2022

In two previous articles, I have discussed China’s commanding lead in the rapidly-growing lithium industry. In a nutshell, it’s because China has invested heavily into developing its lithium supply chain, while the U.S. However, a number of companies are working to commercialize a lithium industry in the U.S.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

General Motors CEO Mary Barra said Thursday the company is accelerating its electric-vehicle efforts, pulling forward the schedule on many future launches, and expanding the number of EV models it sells globally to 30 by the end of 2025—a larger number than the dozen future EVs shown to journalists in a no-cameras presentation in March.

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TechCrunch: Climate

AUGUST 17, 2023

billion (USD $890 million) joint investment will provide battery materials to supply future Ford electric vehicles. The credit offers consumers $7,500 if the vehicle they buy meets certain battery sourcing and production guidelines. In May, Tesla shared plans to build a lithium refinery plant in Texas. The CAD $1.2

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Charged

MARCH 19, 2021

He reiterated that during January’s earnings call, saying that cell supply was “the fundamental limit on electric vehicles right now.”. “We The European Commission recently approved a multi-billion-dollar investment to develop battery production on the Continent, and US policymakers are also taking tentative steps in this direction.

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Business Green

APRIL 12, 2022

Honda is aiming to sell two million electric vehicles (EVs) annually and expand its battery car offering to 30 models by the end of the decade, the Japanese carmaker announced today. Honda said the grouping of multiple products under the technologies that service them would enable it to offer greater value to customers.

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Clean Energy Canada

MAY 18, 2021

Each of the “Detroit Three” automakers have announced major electric vehicle assembly investments in Canada over the past eight months, and President Joe Biden’s proposed $2-trillion infrastructure plan would pour US$174 billion into developing the EV market. Stellantis (formerly Fiat Chrysler) will invest up to $1.5

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 22, 2022

billion from the US Infrastructure Law will expand domestic battery manufacturing for electric vehicles (EVs) and the electrical grid as well as for materials and components heretofore imported. The first set of projects funded by $2.8 Twenty companies will receive the combined $2.8 in 12 states.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

At the same time but seemingly unrelatedly, we need more plentiful and sustainable sources of graphene (useful for everything from solar cells to battery storage) and graphite (a key component of lithium-ion batteries). What if one technology could address both challenges? The minerals created are more than 99 percent pure.

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Charged

MAY 27, 2021

There was a big bundle of news, which will take the media some days to fully unpack, but the gist of it is that, under a plan dubbed Ford+, the automaker will be allocating capital to three priority areas: fully electric vehicles, commercial solutions and connected services.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 15, 2022

Other drivers include the rising use of energy storage systems based on lithium-ion batteries and use of grid energy storage solutions. Additional drivers include the modernisation of the grid, represented by novel technologies such as smart grids where batteries aid in the capabilities of such technology. billion by 2031.

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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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Greentown Labs

JULY 27, 2022

Cleartrace announced a $20M financing round , from several strategic investors, including Greentown partner EDF Energy North America. SiTration raised $2.35M in pre-seed funding , which will support its novel separation processes for extracting lithium, cobalt, nickel, and more from recycled EV batteries.

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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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ThinkGeoEnergy

AUGUST 17, 2023

has announced the investment of over USD 100 million to Controlled Thermal Resources Holdings Inc. Lithium produced at Hell’s Kitchen will support Stellantis vehicles’ battery electric vehicle (BEV) eligibility for consumer incentives under the U.S. With electric vehicle adoption growing rapidly in the U.S.

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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. The investment round was led by Stora Enso Oyj, joined by Amperex Technology Ltd (ATL) and other partners. billion) by 2030.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

Last year it invested $26bn - 37 per cent of its overall financing - to climate change, which the bank said marked an increase of 83 per cent compared with the 2019 financial year, during which it invested $14.2bn. Reports: Tesla breaks ground on $375m lithium factory in South Texas.

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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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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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Charged

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The Inflation Reduction Act heavily incentivizes production of battery raw materials in North America, and OEMs and battery makers are rushing to establish production of cathode active materials and precursors in the region. 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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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The investment covers 40% of the Texas facility’s $1.3B project cost and is one of the largest DAC investments to date.    🏭 Brickeye , a Toronto, Canada-based digital IoT platform for construction sensors, raised $10M from BDC Capital GreenSky Ventures, Brightspark, EDC, and MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund. 

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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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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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Clean Energy Canada

OCTOBER 4, 2019

In Ontario, 6,000 jobs and half-a-billion dollars of investment are thought to have been lost after the government cancelled renewable energy projects. Consider the hybrid- and electric-vehicle industry. It’s a choice about what we, as a nation, want to encourage and invest in. They’ll also keep many Canadians employed.

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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. The Tesla Model Y which is sold in Europe and North America costs over $60,000 - and they've increased their prices with seemingly no impact to demand.

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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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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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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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Charged

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

In July, it raised $700 million in new investment. By early 2022, Redwood will announce a site for our North American battery materials manufacturing facility, aiming to produce 100 GWh/year of cathode active materials and anode foil for one million electric vehicles by 2025,” says the company. “By

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Clean Energy Trust

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

As a reminder, NanoGraf developed a silicon-based anode battery material that enables electric vehicle (EV) batteries to run longer and charge faster than traditional lithium-ion batteries on the market.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

AUGUST 31, 2023

The $7 billion the federal government is investing in clean H2 is meant to clean up precisely this type of production. 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.

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Elemental Excelerator

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Solar panels, wind turbines, batteries, and electric vehicles are becoming mainstream and cost effective, allowing us to transition much faster away from fossil fuels. First of all, critical minerals such as cobalt, lithium, graphite, manganese, and others are the building blocks of many clean technology applications.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

According to Electric Fusion Systems in a statement , the AI Ambassador is grounded in peer-reviewed scientific research, particularly focusing on the intricacies of the LEEF technology, drawing from a database currently encompassing around 70 research papers and continuously being enhanced.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Romanian battery company Prime Batteries Technology, which produces lithium-ion batteries and tailor-made battery systems for the energy, automotive and industrial sectors, is partnering with the sustainable energy innovation engine EIT Innoenergy to scale up its battery production to 8GWh annually.

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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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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 8, 2024

  In deals,   $2.2bn in electric cars, $800m for Octopus’ expansion, and $34m for EVs in India. Overwhelmed by your new year inbox and missed our Friday 2023 Investment Trends report? Be sure to skim here , or download it directly. LevelTen , Granular ).  🌾 NewLeaf Symbiotics, a St. in Seed funding. 

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