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Fortum Battery Recycling exploring new hub devel­opment in Germany

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Fortum Battery Recycling has started to examine the feasibility of installing a production facility for sustainable secondary battery materials in the industrial area of Artern, Thuringia, Germany. The black mass facility will be Fortum Battery Recycling’s second hub in Central Europe.

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GM’s Ultium Battery System Scavenges Waste Heat

CleanTechnica EVs

Toward the end of last month, we missed an important press release from GM in the shuffle of cleantech news, but it’s something that’s worth going back to, because it’s an important piece of a big efficiency problem that plagues every automobile: getting some good from waste heat.

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Researchers transform waste tire char into efficient fuel cell catalysts

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A team of researchers in Italy has transformed chars—the least valuable by-product of waste-tire pyrolysis—into highly efficient Oxygen Reduction Reaction (ORR) catalysts for use in alkaline fuel cells and metal air batteries. billion waste tires are produced yearly, including 2.6 Currently, about 1.5

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How is New Zealand disposing of EV batteries?

Drive Electric

However, as the number of EVs on our roads continues to grow, so too does the number of old EV batteries requiring responsible disposal. According to estimates from EECA, an EV battery is expected to last 10 to 20 years (and more than 350,000km!) So, what happens to EV batteries once they have done their dash?

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UCR team demonstrates use of earth abundant elements in spin-mediated thermoelectric energy conversion for waste heat recovery

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Mechanical engineers at the University of California, Riverside, have successfully used inexpensive materials to produce thermoelectric devices that transform low-level waste heat into electricity. We have only just scratched the surface of the possibilities. —Sandeep Kumar.

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Schaeffler introducing 4in1 electric axles for EVs

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A particularly efficient thermal management system also ensures that a car travels further on one battery charge and charges faster. In the future, Schaeffler will supply beam axles to automobile manufacturers, particularly in North America. Another new development are electric beam axles for pick-up trucks.

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Ford Scales Back Michigan Battery Plant Investments

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Ford has said it will restart construction on the electric vehicle battery facility it’s building in Marshall, Michigan, after pausing work when the UAW strike kicked off a couple months ago. As stated previously, we have been evaluating BlueOval Battery Park Michigan in Marshall.