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CATL reaches deal to supply energy storage systems to US firm HGP

CN EV Post

The two companies will also establish a long-term partnership to drive the implementation of utility-scale and distributed energy storage projects up to 5 GWh in size, according to the release. HGP is based in Dallas, Texas, and has decades of market experience deploying grid investment-grade energy storage assets.

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Tesla shows off new Megapack production facility in California

Teslarati

The new Lathrop facility is likely a dramatic increase in production rate, considering Giga-Nevada, which produces numerous Tesla products , was previously the only production location for the Megapack. What is more apparent is that Tesla is far from alone in the energy storage business. What do you think of the article?

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Opinion: Could A Lithium Shortage De-Rail The Electric Car Boom?

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We have all heard about Tesla’s Nevada facility that will at full capacity produce enough batteries to power 500,000 electric cars per year by 2020. there is already one gigafactory—Tesla’s, in Nevada—operating. Brine-based lithium production in the country is concentrated in one place only, at least for now, and this place is Nevada.

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Tesla opens new possibilities for Giga Nevada, halts Megapack production

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Tesla has stopped Megapack production at Giga Nevada, but this is just the beginning for Tesla’s most underrated facility. Now, the Nevada plant is being dramatically shaken up, potentially for the better, as it will no longer be producing the Megapack. NEWS: @Tesla has built its last Megapack at Giga Nevada.

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The Top 10 EV Battery Makers

Cars That Think

To have any shot, the United States alone may need 20 to 40 gigafactories over 15 years, with a combined terawatt of new battery capacity, to meet projected demand, says Venkat Srinivasan, director of the Argonne Collaborative Center for Energy Storage Science.

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Tesla And Other Tech Giants Scramble For Lithium As Prices Double

Green Car Congress

Driven by the rise of battery gigafactories and game-changing Powerwall and energy storage businesses, the world now finds itself at the beginning of a lithium super cycle that is all about securing new supply, much of which is poised to come from lithium superstar Argentina. Link to original article: [link].

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Yellen visits US lithium site in Chile, eyes progress on green transition – ET Auto

Baua Electric

With 30% of global market share and the largest lithium reserves, Chile is also the world’s second biggest producer of lithium, which is expected to see a tripling of demand by 2030 given its key role in energy storage, such as for EV batteries. There would be shifts in the medium- to long-term as the U.S.

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