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JULY 1, 2021

Battery metal prices have recovered strongly in the first half of the year, incentivizing new projects to come online. China controls the battery chemical industry, with the biggest market share for all of the five main battery materials: lithium, nickel, manganese, cobalt and graphite.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2020

In its new Lithium Outlook to 2030 report, Roskill notes that the prolonged downward trend for lithium compound and mineral concentrate prices has caused a difficult environment for many lithium producers since 2018. In 2019, rechargeable batteries accounted for 54% of total lithium demand, almost entirely from Li-ion battery technologies.

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MAY 1, 2018

Researchers at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology & Engineering in China have developed new hybrid electrolytes to support high-voltage Li-ion batteries (e.g., ~5 O 4 /Li batteries are improved by using the hybrid electrolytes. The result combines the merits of both solid and liquid electrolytes.

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JULY 26, 2018

Researchers from the University of Cambridge, with colleagues from Argonne National Laboratory in the US and Diamond Light Source, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, UK, have identified a group of materials—niobium tungsten oxides—that could be used to make even higher power batteries. Griffith et al.

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DECEMBER 1, 2020

Magnesium batteries have long been considered a potentially safer and less expensive alternative to lithium-ion batteries, but previous versions have been severely limited in the power they delivered. The combination affords a Mg battery that delivers a specific power of up to 30.4?kW?kg —Dong et al.

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MAY 28, 2018

Researchers at the University of Akron have developed hierarchical porous Mn 3 O 4 /C nanospheres as anode materials for Li-ion batteries. mA/g), excellent ratability (425 mAh/g at 4 A/g), and extremely long cycle life (no significant capacity fading after 3000 cycles at 4A/g) as an anode in a Li-ion battery.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

S 0.5 ) nanoplates for use as Li-ion anodes. Thus, it is extremely important to develop new anode materials for batteries with high energy density. Tin, as a result of an alloying reaction with Li, delivers a high theoretical gravimetric capacity of 994 mA h g ? Electrochemical performance of a Li-ion full cell. (a)

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2012

Electric bicycle sales by region, world markets: 2012-2018. between 2012 and 2018, resulting in global sales of 47.6 million vehicles in 2018, up form more than 30 million units in 2012. billion revenue in 2018, Pike suggests. billion revenue in 2018, Pike suggests. Source: Pike Research. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2021

James Breyer founded Hercules Electric Vehicles in 2018 with a vision to bring luxury eco-utility products to market, beginning with an electric pickup truck and followed by other electric mobility products. Hercules vehicles will offer integrated solar charging, long-range batteries and optional fuel-cell range-extender options.

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MAY 15, 2018

ION Energy, a startup energy storage company, launched UDYR, an intelligent, modular and portable 48V, 32 Ah lithium-ion battery supported by ION’s proprietary battery management system, software platform, and backend analytics. UDYR is built with NMC cells from LG Chem.

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APRIL 16, 2018

Researchers led by a team at UC Berkeley have demonstrated high-capacity manganese-rich cathodes for advanced lithium-ion batteries. Low cost and low toxicity make the Mn 2+ /Mn 4+ couple particularly desirable for designing high-performance Li-ion batteries that are also inexpensive and eco-friendly. …

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AUGUST 16, 2023

Yaocai Bai and Yuzhang Li have received the 2023–2024 ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowships for projects in green energy technology. Dr Bai is the focus area lead for the Advanced Resource Recovery research thrust in DOE’s ReCell Center for Advanced Battery Recycling. Yuzhang Li, University of California, Los Angeles.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 18, 2024

GODI India Private Limited, a Hyderabad-based lithium-ion cell R&D and manufacturer, has become the first Indian company to attain LFP BIS certification for its Lithium Iron Phosphate (LFP) Li-ion cells. The company had earlier secured BIS certification for its NMC811 cathode material-based Li-ion cells in mid-2022.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2017

Germany-based Li-ion manufacturer AKASOL ( earlier post ) has signed a contract for the supply of Li-ion batteries to an unnamed international commercial vehicle manufacturer in Scandinavia for its entire electric bus fleet through 2023. and EDE R100. —Sven Schulz, Managing Director.

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OCTOBER 19, 2017

Bosch has introduced a new 48-volt battery for mild hybrids; similar to the Bosch e-axle, this 48-volt battery is standardized for easy integration into new vehicle models. Production of the battery is scheduled to start in late 2018. Both these factors bring costs down still further.

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AUGUST 31, 2016

Samsung SDI has decided to use Hungary as its Li-ion battery production base in Europe. The new battery plant will be built in Goed, north of Budapest in a 330,000 m 2 site, using existing facilities previously used for display production.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 19, 2024

This certification, confirming to IS 16046 Part-2:2018 / IEC 62133-2:2017 standards, is a testament to GODI’s commitment to innovation in the realm of advanced energy storage devices for electric vehicle (EV) and renewable energy storage system (ESS) applications, the company said.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2018

A team at Sichuan University in China is proposing a novel lithium-ion/oxygen hybrid battery system that exploits the advantages and minimizes the disadvantages of both lithium-ion batteries (LIB) and lithium-oxygen batteries (LOB). —Mu et al.

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AUGUST 17, 2018

Rolls-Royce is launching a lithium-ion based energy storage system for ships. Illustration of a ship system setup with batteries. Rolls-Royce now offers SAVe Energy, a cost-competitive, highly efficient and liquid-cooled battery system with a modular design that enables the product to scale according to energy and power requirements.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

has exclusively licensed five battery technologies from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) designed to eliminate the use of cobalt metal in lithium-ion batteries. The metal is specifically used in a battery’s cathode, the positively charged end that determines much of a battery’s performance.

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AUGUST 20, 2012

Pike Research forecasts that the global market for all electric-drive buses—including hybrid, battery electric, and fuel cell buses—grow steadily over the next. from 2012 to 2018. would purchase 500 battery electric buses. Since 2009, hundreds of battery buses have been deployed.

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JULY 6, 2018

The team fabricated large-size lithium-ion batteries using the HD-TNO anode and a LiNi 0.6 Development of large-size lithium-ion batteries for automotive applications such as electric vehicles (EVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) has focused on enhancement of energy density. Ah for automotive applications.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Dürr is positioning itself in the growing Li-ion battery market as a supplier of production technology and is expanding its market access to battery manufacturers through a cooperation with Techno Smart, a leading Japanese manufacturer of coating systems. Dürr Megtec is part of the Clean Technology Systems division.

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JUNE 29, 2018

A team at Sichuan University in China is proposing a novel lithium-ion/oxygen hybrid battery system that exploits the advantages and minimizes the disadvantages of both lithium-ion batteries (LIB) and lithium-oxygen batteries (LOB). —Mu et al.

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OCTOBER 22, 2009

Of the eleven competing energy storage technologies analyzed in a recent report from Pike Research, the cleantech industry analyst firm forecasts that Li-ion batteries will be the fastest growing category for the Stationary Utility Energy Storage (SUES) sector, growing to a $1.1 billion worldwide business by 2018.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2018

Nano One Materials has launched a project focused on improving the durability of lithium-ion cathode materials with the support of the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC IRAP). Results from the project will be applied to other high nickel materials including NMC622. —Dan Blondal, CEO.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2018

The VSPC facility is a 2 to 4 tonnes-per-annum pilot plant that incorporates an integrated laboratory, coin-cell production facility and battery-testing equipment. The particle genesis is directly compatible with energy-metal technologies under development by LIT and will improve the production process and cost.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2018

A team of researchers from institutions in China and the US report the design of a negatively charged graphene composite separator for the effective suppression of the polysulfide shuttling effect in Li-sulfur batteries. —Lei et al. 2018.07.022.

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APRIL 30, 2012

Electric two-wheel vehicle sales by country, Asia Pacific: 2012-2018. Pike Research forecasts that annual sales of electric two-wheel vehicles (e-scooters, e-motorcycles, and e-bicycles) will show robust growth and reach more than 65 million units in 2018. more than 60 million units in 2018 at a CAGR of 6.6%. Click to enlarge.

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JUNE 8, 2016

Li-sulfur battery developer OXIS Energy UK ( earlier post ) and Lithium Balance of Denmark are partnering to build a prototype Lithium-sulfur battery system primarily for the e-scooter market in China. Lithium Balance is a battery management expert which has supplied its BMS systems for Li-ion based e-scooters for a decade.

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MARCH 15, 2018

Lithium and cobalt are fundamental components of present lithium-ion batteries. Analysis by researchers at the Helmholtz Institute Ulm (HIU) of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) suggests that, given the foreseen scaling of battery demand up to 2050, each may face supply risks, albeit for different reasons.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2018

A team at Penn State has developed a three-dimensional, cross-linked polyethylenimine lithium-ion-affinity sponge as the lithium metal anode host to mitigate the problem of dendritic growth of the metal anode. —Li et al. A paper on their work is published in Nature Energy. at a commercial-level areal capacity.

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MAY 18, 2018

Hydro-Québec (HQ) and Nouveau Monde Graphite (NMG) have signed a license and a research and development agreements respecting the processing of graphite for use in lithium-ion batteries. The partners hope that this collaboration will enable NMG to commercialize battery material technologies developed by HQ over the past 30 years.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

The Faraday Institution will award up to £55 million (US$67 million) to five UK-based consortia to conduct application-inspired research to make step changes in battery chemistries, systems and manufacturing methods. Next generation lithium ion cathode materials.

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OCTOBER 22, 2018

Researchers in Drexel’s College of Engineering report the ability of stabilized titanium monoxide (TiO) nanoparticles in nanofibers to support high conductivity and to bind polysulfides in Li-S batteries. We have created freestanding porous titanium monoxide nanofiber mat as a cathode host material in lithium-sulfur batteries.

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JANUARY 5, 2017

Tesla and Panasonic have begun mass production of high-performance cylindrical “2170” (21mm diameter, 70mm height) lithium-ion battery cells at the Gigafactory in Nevada. By 2018, the Gigafactory will produce 35 GWh/year of lithium-ion battery cells, nearly as much as the rest of the entire world’s battery production combined.

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JULY 6, 2018

The team fabricated large-size lithium-ion batteries using the HD-TNO anode and a LiNi 0.6 Development of large-size lithium-ion batteries for automotive applications such as electric vehicles (EVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) has focused on enhancement of energy density. Ah for automotive applications.

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