Charged

AUGUST 15, 2021

Multinational oil giants are beginning to invest in companies in several different sectors of the EV industry. Phillips 66 manufactures specialty coke, a key precursor in the production of lithium-ion batteries. Phillips 66 will reportedly pay a total purchase price of $150 million, and will nominate one director to Novonix’s board.

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Batteries Investment Patents Lithium 116

Charged

APRIL 20, 2020

Enovix Corporation has secured an additional $45 million to produce and commercialize its 3D Silicon Lithium-ion Battery. Enovix CEO Harrold Rust said, “Anchoring the round is a $25-million strategic investment from a leading California technology company.

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Lithium Batteries Patents Technology 90

Charged

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Swiss technology startup Morand has launched a hybrid energy storage system that combines the characteristics of an ultracapacitor with that of a chemical battery to create “a durable and ultra-fast energy pack that can be usefully recharged in seconds.”. It does use some lithium, but the main components are aluminum, graphene and carbon.

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Startups Batteries Lithium Scooters 105

Smart Energy International

APRIL 1, 2022

Global lithium-sulphur cathode technology manufacturer Theion has launched its crystal battery for all mobile applications. Sulphur is 99% cheaper to source and is used in existing state-of-the-art lithium-ion batteries. The new battery boasts triple energy density and 90% less production energy requirements.

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Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Batteries 122

Energy Storage News

APRIL 9, 2024

Battery technology startup Alsym Energy is keeping the exact chemistry of its product under wraps for the time being, the company has confirmed to Energy-Storage.news.

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Startups Batteries Lithium Energy 61

Charged

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

In the past year, electric mobility and the demand for lithium-ion batteries has surged beyond expectations and this trend is set to continue. This is leading to a boom in lithium-ion cell production facilities all over the world. Munters’ patented Green PowerPurge technology reduces the required reactivation energy by up to 45%.

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Lithium Batteries Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 98

Charged

AUGUST 2, 2023

Yulho will make a strategic equity investment of $5 million in Aqua Metals, and Aqua will grant Yulho a license to deploy its patented AquaRefining technology in South Korea. We aim to expand our business model beyond a simple technology swap and joint venture establishment. Source: Aqua Metals

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Recycling Recycling Batteries Lithium 95

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

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Recycling Recycling Batteries North America 124

Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Katie Smith is a Technical Assistant with Reddie & Grose LLP, a firm of patent, trade mark and design attorneys. Last year the European Patent Office and the International Energy Agency published a detailed report on innovation in batteries and electricity storage. Energy storage is widely viewed as a potential solution.

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Cooling Patents Energy Energy 162

Charged

APRIL 21, 2022

Fennac is composed of sodium, iron carbon and nitrogen , and compared to alternatives, the company says its patented manufacturing method is low-cost and more environmentally friendly. Also, the company says Fennac-based batteries can be produced using existing lithium-ion manufacturing processes and equipment. Source: Altris.

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Patents Batteries Lithium Investment 111

CleanTech San Diego

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Since the first IGF, the effort has resulted in billions of dollars of investments into startup and early-stage companies. “It GridWrap is a women-owned enterprise is commercializing a patented novel technology that will structurally strengthen grid lines by using advanced hybrid composite materials.

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Startups Patents Energy Energy 52

CleanTech San Diego

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Since the first IGF, the effort has resulted in billions of dollars of investments into startup and early-stage companies. “It GridWrap is a women-owned enterprise is commercializing a patented novel technology that will structurally strengthen grid lines by using advanced hybrid composite materials.

Startups 52

Startups Patents Energy Energy 52

Charged

JANUARY 14, 2021

Group14 Technologies, a global provider of silicon-carbon composite materials for lithium-ion markets, has secured $17 million in a Series B funding round led by SK materials, a manufacturer of special gases and industrial gases. “Group14’s innovative battery material chemistry maximizes high-quality production at cost.”

Batteries 71

Batteries Lithium Patents Demand 71

Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 23, 2023

grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support smallholder farmers in East Africa through a collaboration with in-region technology and weather partners. Syzygy Plasmonics and Greentown partner Mitsubishi Heavy Industries signed an investment agreement. Salient Predictions , a Greentown alum, received a $2.9M

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Startups Lithium Waste Waste 73

Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Also of interest is new debt financing for 80 microgrids in India and a successful Series A for Silicon Anode Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries, aiming to bolster the market in Europe. Have you read: Italgas launches innovation drive in US #COP26 – Gresham House chief: ESG critical to investment processes.

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Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 95

CleanTech San Diego

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Funds Helping Regional Companies Advance Breakthrough Clean Energy Technologies for the Benefit of California Ratepayers. million represents a tripling of the capital that these companies came into the program with, and a 50-fold return on investment on the $4.95 This combined $268.5 million in total program expenditures.

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Innovation Patents Energy Energy 98

Charged

MARCH 17, 2022

Mercedes will establish a pilot plant for the recycling of lithium-ion battery systems, under a new wholly-owned subsidiary called LICULAR. Scientific support for the project will be provided by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the Technical Universities of Clausthal and Berlin. Construction will take place in two stages.

Recycling 119

Recycling Recycling Batteries Lithium 119

Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 26, 2022

American Battery Technology Company was awarded a $57M Department of Energy grant to build a $115M, first-of-kind commercial-scale facility to manufacture battery-grade lithium hydroxide from Nevada-based sedimentary resources. Raise Green , a marketplace for impact investing in climate solutions, closed a $1.2M seed round.

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Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring 98

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Elon Musk claims Tesla engineers have achieved a "major breakthrough" in battery technology, which he predicts could dramatically cut production costs, boost the range of electric vehicles and accelerate the shift towards renewable electricity. The battery stuff is truly revolutionary, and essential to Tesla's goal," explained Musk.

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Batteries Patents Lithium Electric vehicle 94

Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

Four of the six projects to have been awarded funding are from the University of Birmingham, including the Reuse and Recycling of Lithium Ion Batteries (ReLIB) project which is being led by Professor Paul Anderson, co-director of the Birmingham Centre for Strategic Elements and Critical Materials at Birmingham's School of Chemistry.

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Batteries Lithium Recycling Recycling 40

Smart Energy International

JUNE 12, 2022

The basis for the initiative is the belief that liquid electrolyte lithium batteries are reaching a state of maturity and that the next technological breakthrough required to unlock the true potential of energy storage must come from the solid state with its potential to provide an increased energy density.

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Batteries Patents Automotive Lithium 52

GreenTechMedia

JULY 28, 2020

Jason Dreisbach fields at least half a dozen calls every week from people trying to sell him a technology to lower his energy costs. When Viking Cold Solutions reached out in 2017 with a thermal energy storage technology, his interest was piqued because, even though he had many questions, “it was not a foreign concept,” he said.

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Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 239

GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Technology companies continued to curb their ambitions for manufacturing electric vehicles in 2019. While Apple continues to file automotive-related patents, its efforts now appear focused on infotainment and autonomous driving software rather than building a car from scratch. In October of this year, U.K. billion ($3.2

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Electric vehicle Electricity Automotive Startups 130

Greentown Labs

JULY 27, 2022

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. Radical Plastics is conducting field trials of mulch film produced by its patented technology with Johnny’s Selected Seeds. Deployments + Partnerships.

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Startups Plastics Innovation North America 98

Business Green

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Firm reveals it has secured a promise of a further £40m investment from miner Glencore as it unveils plans for a new funding round and Canadian expansion. It noted that as its "key strategic partner", British-Swiss mining giant Glencore had committed to provide the cornerstone for the latest funding round with a £40m investment.

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Lithium Recycling Recycling Electric vehicle 36

Charged

MAY 18, 2021

The lithium-ion battery has proven to be an excellent fuel tank for EVs, but there remains much room for improvement. Armed with dozens of patents and sophisticated tools, Wildcat’s team of scientists has spent the past decade partnering with other companies to use its advanced techniques to help them accelerate battery development.

Lithium 52

Lithium Batteries Automotive Technology 52

Charged

MARCH 3, 2020

Introducing silicon into automotive-grade lithium-ion cells has been a major topic in the EV industry in the past decade. Silicon is widely considered to be the next big thing in anode technology, because it has a theoretical charge capacity ten times higher than that of typical graphite anodes.

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Technology Lithium Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring 130

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. But that is changing with OCSiAI’s development of the declared first industrial-scale production.

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Startups Technology Blockchain Lithium 65

Business Green

APRIL 9, 2020

The good news is many of the biggest cloud computing and data center providers have continued to focus on improving energy efficiency alongside their investments in sourcing renewable energy. It's moving to lithium-ion battery technologies and deploying artificial intelligence to help with that mission, he said.

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Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 51

Clean Energy Trust

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

MITO’s advanced material technology can transition transportation vehicles away from metal and into composites, which significantly decreases the weight of the vehicle. This is because it is challenging to take new technology out of the lab and into the market. Ask a Climate Innovator?—?Haley This is how I got started in cleantech.

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Innovation Startups Technology Climate change 52

Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 20, 2023

This week’s Smart Energy Finances looks at Skeleton Technologies’ €108 million funding round, with investors such as Siemens Financial Services and Marubeni Corporation, for supercapacitor manufacturing and development of new high-power battery technology, namely the SuperBattery.

Energy 116

Energy Energy Packaging Batteries 116

Charged

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Battery technology developer Enevate has partnered with Lightning Motorcycles to equip Lightning’s Strike Carbon motorcycle with Enevate’s EV-size fast-charging lithium-ion cells. As part of product validation, Lightning integrated a 24 kWh battery pack with Enevate technology into the Strike Carbon e-motorcycle.

Electricity 131

Electricity Patents Lithium Batteries 131

CleanTech San Diego

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

SAN DIEGO, CA, November 1, 2022 – Cleantech San Diego today announced the graduation of ten local clean energy companies – Chilldyne , Controlled Thermal Resources , Ivy Energy , NeoCharge , Occuspace , South 8 Technologies , Qubitekk , UCAP Power , VLI-EV , and XENDEE – from its Southern California Energy Innovation Network (SCEIN).

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Incubators Incubators Business Energy Monitoring Startups 52

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

This installation is the latest investment by Scottish Water Horizons, the public utility’s commercial subsidiary, who are developing a programme of opportunities for battery storage across Scottish Water’s asset portfolio. Invinity Energy Systems is providing key components of the energy storage project.

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Batteries Lithium Waste Waste 241

Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The collaboration will also help SMEs tackle scalability with go-to-market support and access to potential clients, funders and investment. LiNa Energy , which is developing and commercialising low-cost, solid-state sodium batteries as a safer, more sustainable alternative to lithium-ion.

Transportation 52

Transportation Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 52

Greentown Labs

JANUARY 11, 2021

Black Mountain Metals is a global battery metals mining company, specifically focused on sustainable nickel and copper mining for lithium-ion battery cathodes. Eclipse Solar Projects finances, develops, owns, and operates utility-scale solar projects in North America through newly developed technology and potential battery storage operations.

Startups 97

Startups Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 97

Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Black Mountain Metals is a global battery metals mining company, specifically focused on sustainable nickel and copper mining for lithium-ion battery cathodes. Renu Energy focuses on “Renuable” energy technologies to create efficiency and economic advantages with a responsible and accountable future.

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