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Ascend Elements to open battery recycling facility in Georgia

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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. It selected the Covington, Georgia site due to the proximity of EV manufacturing hubs and battery factories.

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Li-Cycle opens battery recycling facility in Alabama

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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. Battery recycler Li-Cycle has announced that its Alabama Spoke plant in Tuscaloosa has started commercial operations.

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Tesla buyers offered a choice between LFP or NCA battery packs

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Tesla has reportedly been contacting Model 3 reservation holders in the US, and offering the option of choosing Lithium Iron Phosphate (LFP) battery cells instead of the usual Nickel Cobalt Aluminum Oxide (NCA) cells. Is this confirmation that the Asia/Europe LFP Model 3 is coming to North America?

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Li-Cycle recovers usable battery-grade materials from shredded Li-ion batteries

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We come from the lithium industry,” Kochhar told Charged. “We We used to work for companies that produced lithium chemicals that go into cathodes, cells and, ultimately, battery packs. And we’d be asked as lithium consultants and experts to look into these looming questions: “How environmentally friendly are batteries?

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Technology Trending: CarbonEnfo startup, ChatGPT ambassador, graphene nanotube facility

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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 Finances: €108m for supercapacitors and the SuperBattery

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Commented Skeleton Technologies’ CEO and Co-Founder Taavi Madiberk on the SuperBattery funding round: “Securing an investment from one of Europe’s largest tech companies is a significant milestone for Skeleton. million), ranking it among Europe’s top-financed deep tech firms.

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