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APRIL 5, 2020

The coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in China will impact the green energy sector, including renewable energy sources, battery energy storage, electric vehicles (EVs), and renewable heating and cooling, says data and analytics company GlobalData. —Sneha Susan Elias, Senior Power Analyst at GlobalData.

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JANUARY 20, 2023

RecycLiCo Battery Materials (formerly American Manganese), has delivered samples of its battery-grade lithium carbonate and lithium hydroxide to battery manufacturers in Japan and South Korea. 2020) “Experimental Study on Recycling of Spent Lithium-Ion Battery Cathode Materials” J. Electrochem.

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DECEMBER 29, 2021

China’s largest manufacturer specialized in two-wheel vehicles, Yadea has more than 50 million users in 80-plus countries around the world. 01(Huan Dian Shou 01), Yadea’s latest model, is part of the series corresponding to the battery replacement system of Gogoro Inc., in October 2021.

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JULY 7, 2021

Nearly 76 GWh of battery cell capacity was produced for the US plug-in vehicle market from 2010 to 2020, according to a recent analysis of the Li-ion battery supply chain by researchers at Argonne National Laboratory. United States: N. doi: 10.2172/1778934.

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OCTOBER 19, 2021

C2G emissions are a sum of WTW emissions and emissions associated with vehicle manufacturing. The vehicle manufacturing cycle includes impacts of raw material extraction, vehicle parts production, assembly, as well as its disposal and related materials recycling processes. Source: DOE program record Nº 21003.

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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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MAY 22, 2021

The Cobalt Institute has released its State of the Cobalt Market Report 2020. The Cobalt Institute commissioned Roskill to look at the global trends in cobalt consumption, supply and production in 2020. The major drive for this growth was the demand for cobalt in lithium-ion batteries. Source: Cobalt Institute.

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OCTOBER 10, 2020

Argonne National Laboratory’s Systems Assessment Center has released the 2020 version of the suite of GREET models and associated documentation. Vehicle technologies include conventional internal combustion engines, hybrid-electric systems, battery-electric vehicles, and fuel-cell-electric vehicles. PFAD to Renewable Diesel.

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MARCH 16, 2022

Sakuu , developer of the first 3D-printed solid-state battery ( earlier post ), reports achieving an energy-density of 800 Wh/L in its first-generation non-printed lithium-metal battery. In addition to the 800 Wh/L mark, the first-generation lithium-metal battery is demonstrating high energy retention at 97% after 200 cycles.

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APRIL 11, 2023

Mullen Automotive, an emerging EV manufacturer, has integrated solid-state polymer battery technology into Mullen’s commercial Class 1 EV cargo van program. Currently, the Mullen Class 1 EV cargo van features a 46 kWh lithium-ion battery pack with a 110-mile range. That development was disrupted in 2020 by the COVID outbreak.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

China dominates BloombergNEF’s (BNEF) lithium-ion battery supply chain ranking in 2020, having quickly surpassed Japan and Korea that were leaders for the majority of the previous decade. In 2020, Japan and Korea rank number two and three respectively. The US is in sixth place in 2020.

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DECEMBER 22, 2020

Announced in January 2020 by US Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette, the Energy Storage Grand Challenge (ESGC) seeks to create and sustain American leadership in energy storage. This is why the US Secretary of Energy announced the Energy Storage Grand Challenge in January 2020.

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AUGUST 21, 2020

Premium EV manufacturer NIO has launched Battery as a Service (BaaS) for customers in China. NIO BaaS users can purchase a car without the battery, making EVs more price competitive against existing powertrains, while also providing the flexibility to change battery capacity depending on their needs and pay accordingly.

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MARCH 6, 2020

In 2019, the market share of lithium-iron-phosphate (LFP) cathode chemistry fell to 6% in global passenger EV batteries by watt-hours deployed (i.e. installed in newly-sold EVs), down from 13% the year prior, according to data from Adamas Intelligence’s EV Battery Capacity and Battery Metals Tracker. Cell-to-pack.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Farasis Energy, a global developer and manufacturer of lithium-ion cells, modules and large battery systems, recently completed C-round financing exceeding 1 Billion US dollars. The compay will use the capital raised to accelerate the expansion of its global automotive battery manufacturing infrastructure.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

24M) has licensed its SemiSolid manufacturing platform ( earlier post ) to Fujifilm Corporation. The chemistry-agnostic 24M SemiSolid manufacturing platform enables higher energy densities, lower costs, unmatched recyclability and increased safety for next-generation batteries. 24M Technologies, Inc.

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DECEMBER 9, 2022

Leading China-based battery manufacturer Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., announced that from 2024 through 2030, Honda will purchase 123 GWh of batteries for pure electric vehicles in China from CATL. Limited (CATL) and Honda Motor (China) Investment Co., Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 7, 2020

Developing lithium from the Salton Sea in California can help anchor a multi-billion dollar domestic electric vehicle battery supply chain and inject thousands of jobs and billions of dollars into California’s economically disadvantaged Imperial Valley, according to a new report from New Energy Nexus. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 19, 2020

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is soliciting proposals from the National Laboratories and industry partners that pursue radical innovations for American battery manufacturing leadership. Full applications from the National Laboratories are due on 17 July 2020. Capabilities: Electrode Manufacturing; Battery Cell Testing.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Frost & Sullivan projects that the global Li-ion battery materials market will reach $51.60 billion in 2020 at a 15.6% The advancements in battery chemistries and technologies, upsurge in electric vehicle (EV) sales, evolving regulatory scenario, and increasing consumer preferences toward EVs are expediting market growth worldwide.

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JANUARY 25, 2020

Audi is pricing its 2020 A8 TFSI e plug-in hybrid with a MSRP of $94,000 in the US. By comparison, the starting MSRP for a 2020 Audi A8 55 TFSI quattro with automatic transmission is $85,200. Audi anticipates that customers purchasing the 2020 Audi A8 TFSI e will be eligible for a federal tax credit of up to $6,795.

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APRIL 14, 2023

The Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have launched a new joint battery center at SLAC. It will bring together the resources and expertise of the national lab, the university and Silicon Valley to accelerate the deployment of batteries and other energy storage solutions.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2019

AKASOL AG, a leading German producer of high-performance lithium-ion battery systems, is expanding its long-term framework agreement to supply a Swedish commercial vehicle manufacturer with high-performance battery systems for electric buses and trucks. AKASOL Production in Langen, Germany Foto Akasol - Alexander Heimann 14.

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JANUARY 13, 2021

In 2020, Volkswagen Passenger Cars delivered more than 212,000 electric cars in total (+158 percent versus 2019), including nearly 134,000 battery electric vehicles (+197 percent versus 2019). 3 were ordered in 2020. 3 was the top-selling car in December 2020 in absolute numbers—regardless of the type of drive.

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JUNE 23, 2021

A new report from IDTechEX forecasts the solid-state battery market will grow to $8 billion by 2031. Under most of the mass-production plans, the solid-state battery will likely take off after 2025, although small-scale production may happen even earlier, IDTechEX said. Major solid-state battery players globally.

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MAY 1, 2021

The BMW Group is launching production of battery components at its plants in Leipzig and Regensburg and expanding its e-drive production network. BMW Group Plant Leipzig will launch series production of battery modules on Monday, 3 May 2021, while BMW Group Plant Regensburg began coating battery cells for high-voltage batteries in April 2021.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Tesla announced today on Twitter that it had successfully manufactured the one-millionth 4680 battery cell at the Kato Road pilot facility in January. Tesla’s 4680 battery cell is one of the company’s most significant developments in its history. The 4680 cell has been one of Tesla’s best-kept secrets as well.

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JULY 3, 2020

The BMW Group has opened the Competence Center for E-Drive Production at its largest European manufacturing location in Dingolfing. At the Competence Centre in Dingolfing, the BMW Group will produce electric powertrain components such as battery modules, high-voltage batteries and electric motors on eight production lines.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2023

billion to build the country’s first automaker-backed LFP battery plant, offering customers a second battery technology within Ford’s EV lineup. Ford is now commited to build both nickel cobalt manganese (NCM) and lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries in the US. Limited (CATL), the world’s leading battery manufacturer.

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AUGUST 4, 2022

LG Energy Solution (LGES)—the company’s dedicated cell subsidiary—plans to use 100% renewable energy in all its battery manufacturing plants worldwide by 2025. In 2020, LGES reported a conversion rate of 33% across its business sites. In 2020, LGES reported a conversion rate of 33% across its business sites.

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DECEMBER 2, 2022

Honeywell and Nexceris will co-develop sensor-based solutions to help prevent conditions leading to thermal runaway in EV batteries. To help mitigate these risks, automobile manufacturers are looking to incorporate technology to provide enhanced safety. Global sales of EVs doubled in 2021 from the previous year to nearly 7 million.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

In the second quarter of 2020, the market share of electrically-chargeable vehicles increased to 7.2% share during the same period last year, according to figures from ACEA (European Automobile Manufacturers Association). From April to June 2020, registrations of electrically-chargeable vehicles (ECV) rose by 53.3% Source: ACEA.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

6K, a developer of microwave plasma technology for the production of advanced materials for energy storage and additive manufacturing powders ( earlier post ), closed a $51M Series C financing round. 6K’s UniMelt platform offers multifaceted sustainability benefits.

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APRIL 23, 2021

A new report sponsored by ABB Robotics and authored by the automotive intelligence unit of Ultima Media auggests that concerns over EV battery supply to meet the escalation in demand poses serious risk to the growth of market share of electric vehicles, despite plans for 80 new global battery gigafactories.

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AUGUST 21, 2021

General Motors is voluntarily expanding the current Chevrolet Bolt EV recall ( earlier post ) to cover the remaining 2019 and all 2020-2022 model year vehicles, including the new Bolt EUV. GM will replace defective battery modules in Chevrolet Bolt EVs and EUVs with new modules, with an expected additional cost of approximately $1 billion.

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DECEMBER 15, 2021

Proterra has committed to a minimum investment of at least $76 million, with additional investments planned over the next several years, and expects to create more than 200 new jobs over the next several years at the 327,000 square foot battery system production plant. Rendering of factory concept.

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DECEMBER 30, 2021

Northvolt has assembled the first battery cell at the newly commissioned Ett gigafactory in northern Sweden. The cell is the first to have been fully designed, developed and assembled at a gigafactory by a homegrown European battery company.

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