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NOVEMBER 21, 2023

When a new technology is in the process of replacing an old one, it’s not uncommon for industry incumbents to experiment with the new tech. Exxon Mobil is targeting a different segment of the EV ecosystem—the oil giant has announced plans to set up a lithium production facility in Arkansas.

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JUNE 27, 2023

Applications include the LytCell lithium-sulfur EV battery, lightweight composites and unique on-board sensors. Lyten’s lithium-sulfur batteries have a 60% smaller carbon footprint than lithium-ion batteries since they do not contain nickel, cobalt, or manganese.

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AUGUST 14, 2023

The facility, including its two main lines and planned ancillary capacity, is expected to have a total annual processing capacity of 33,069 tons of lithium-ion battery material. The Spokes also produce black mass, an intermediate product that contains lithium, nickel and cobalt.

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Charged

MARCH 24, 2022

Lithium battery recycling company Retriev Technologies has purchased battery recycling management firm Battery Solutions. According to Retriev, the acquisition makes the expanded company “the first and only comprehensive battery management solution in North America.”. Source: Retriev Technologies.

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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. Tailwind from EVs.

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altenergymag

MAY 17, 2022

-Li-Cycle’s third operational Spoke facility in North America commences operations, with capacity to process up to 10,000 tonnes of manufacturing scrap and end-of-life batteries per year -Arizona Spoke is the first to utilize Li-Cycle’s proprietary technology to directly process full EV battery packs -Facility can process equivalent of batteries required (..)

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ThinkGeoEnergy

JANUARY 19, 2024

The California Energy Commission (CEC) has announced a Grant Funding Opportunity for projects that seek to address corrosion and/or scaling in geothermal installations in California or advance technologies to enhance extraction of lithium and other valuable minerals from geothermal brine at the Salton Sea geothermal field.

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OCTOBER 18, 2022

Snow Lake Resources—doing business as Snow Lake Lithium —has signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with LG Energy Solution (LGES) to collaborate on a lithium supply chain for the EV market in North America. million metric tons indicated and inferred resource at 1% Li 2 O,” says Snow Lake Lithium.

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MAY 2, 2023

Volkswagen and lithium-ion battery recycler Redwood Materials have partnered to offer US consumers a convenient way to recycle rechargeable devices or lithium-ion batteries. The collaboration between Volkswagen Group of America and Redwood began last year with a recycling deal for all Volkswagen and Audi EV battery packs.

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Charged

JANUARY 29, 2024

Plans call for the 21 GWh facility to begin production of lithium-iron-phosphate battery cells in 2027 for use in medium- and heavy-duty commercial electric trucks. China-headquartered battery maker EVE Energy has 10% ownership and will serve as technology partner, contributing its battery cell design. Source: PACCAR

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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

MARCH 14, 2023

Battery recycler Aqua Metals has demonstrated the recovery of high-purity lithium hydroxide from lithium-ion battery black mass at the company’s Li AquaRefining recycling facility in Nevada. This new capability can have a profound impact on the lithium battery industry in North America. Source: Aqua Metals

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Charged

JUNE 8, 2022

Battery cathode materials specialist Nano One has announced the acquisition of Johnson Matthey Battery Materials (JMBM), a Canadian company that operates one of the few LFP cathode production facilities in North America. Hopefully Nano One can help to build a more substantial LFP supply chain in North America.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 3, 2022

South 8 Technologies has raised $12 million in Series A financing to commercialise next-generation electrolytes for lithium-ion batteries. The financing round was led by industrial venture investor Anzu Ventures along with LG Technology Ventures and Shell Ventures as well as Foothill Ventures and Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corporation.

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Charged

JANUARY 17, 2023

Feedstock has been introduced into the automated system, enabling recovery of valuable critical minerals from spent lithium-ion batteries. Recovering battery-grade lithium hydroxide from spent batteries in commercial quantities. “We Ramping of the pilot facility to process metric tons of black mass per month.

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Charged

JANUARY 17, 2023

The EV Metals Group acquired the battery materials and technology business of Johnson Matthey in 2022. This will be used for the first two processing trains in the Lithium Chemicals Plant to produce lithium hydroxide monohydrate (LHM). Construction is scheduled to commence in Q3 of this year. Source: EV Metals Group.

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Charged

APRIL 9, 2024

Aqua Metals has developed a process for recycling lithium-ion batteries that it says is much cleaner, more efficient and more cost-effective than current methods (see our recent in-depth interview with company execs ). At full scale, Aqua will provide 30% of the nickel and lithium carbonate needed at 6K’s PlusCAM facility.

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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.

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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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The Verge: Energy

DECEMBER 7, 2023

With billions invested in some literally explosive recycling technology, Redwood Materials is poised to become a significant factor in meeting that need. Well, not literal gold, at least not much, but there is plenty of lithium, cobalt, and other materials that are good for batteries but hard to find in the earth.

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Charged

OCTOBER 31, 2022

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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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. This collaboration has been long in the making,” explains Rima Kasia Oueid, who is the lead and Commercialisation Executive in the DOE’s Office of Technology Transitions. “We

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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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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The Darbytown Storage Pilot Project will test two new technologies as potential alternatives to traditional lithium-ion batteries, both of which could offer strengthened safety features for battery storage. One of the technologies could discharge energy for multiple days.

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Charged

AUGUST 21, 2023

American Battery Factory (ABF), a battery manufacturer that plans to build a network of lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery cell gigafactories in the US, has raised significant development capital in Series A funding. Investor FNA Group is a hybrid manufacturing partner that will provide its technology to ABF’s battery cell production.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Sensata Technologies debuted a new battery management systems at the Battery Show North America in Novi, Michigan. . Source: Sensata Technologies. The BMS CREATOR configuration software allows the battery designer to create a unique battery by defining application-specific BMS parameters and safety strategies.

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Charged

JULY 31, 2023

BCA’s systems offer various processing outcomes that include options for progressively smaller sizes of material shredding, as well as additional processing steps to generate higher-value, battery-grade precursor cathode active material (pCAM) and black mass , which contains high amounts of graphite, lithium, manganese, cobalt and nickel.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 20, 2022

The deals were signed within days of each other, signalling Pine Gate Renewables’ attempts to look into and invest in lithium-ion alternatives for their battery storage systems. The zinc alkaline cells avoid several issues, that are otherwise known challenges with other battery chemistries, including lithium. Urban Electric Power.

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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. However, expensive, fire-prone battery technologies are serious impediments to ambitious plans for rapid growth.

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Charged

MARCH 19, 2021

“We are scaling a supply chain that was capable of supplying the consumer electronics industry to supply the transportation industry,” Celina Mikolajczak, VP of Battery Technology at Panasonic Energy of North America, told Transport Dive. There’s plenty of lithium around in the ground. Source: Transport Dive.

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The Verge: Energy

APRIL 18, 2024

In essence, it treats high-capacity lithium-ion batteries not only as tools to power EVs but also as backup storage cells to charge other electric devices, an entire home, or even to send power to the electrical grid for possible energy savings. Tesla will likely bring the technology to its lineup by 2025.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

As CNBC reports, cobalt, lithium, nickel, and other raw materials used in EV batteries have become hot commodities, and prices have soared to 52-week highs. “To million tons of lithium, 1.5 Redwood recycles all types of lithium-ion batteries, not just EV battery packs.

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Greentown Labs

APRIL 24, 2024

Funding American Battery Technology Company —a startup with technologies for lithium-ion battery recycling, battery-metal extraction, and primary mineral resource development—was awarded $60M in tax credits to accelerate the construction of its next-generation battery recycling facility. tax credit allocation from the U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 19, 2022

The latest funding round boosts Viridi’s value to $700 million, and supports the company’s aim to manufacture point-of-use lithium-ion battery technology at scale. . Viridi said that its Green Machine brand is a lithium-ion pack system intended to meet demands of the construction and heavy industrial markets.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 7, 2024

Form Energy’s technology, offering storage and discharge capacity for 100 hours at system costs declared competitive with legacy power plants is based in essence on reversible rusting. Have you read?

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Charged

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Mitra Future Technologies, also known as Mitra Chem, has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round led by Social Capital Holdings. The startup aims to boost the North American battery supply chain by producing an iron-based cathode.

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Charged

MAY 21, 2021

Using its patented Spoke & Hub Technologies at facilities in the US, Li-Cycle will transform Ultium’s battery manufacturing scrap into new battery-grade materials, including lithium carbonate, cobalt sulphate and nickel sulphate, helping to close the battery supply chain loop and enable sustainable production of new EV batteries.

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