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Jervois begins commissioning at Idaho Cobalt Operations; only cobalt mine in US

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Australia-based Jervois Global, a nickel and cobalt company, has commenced the first stage of plant commissioning at its Idaho Cobalt Operations mine site (ICO), following a successful opening ceremony on 7 October 2022. Idaho Cobalt Belt. Jervois continues to expect to achieve full nameplate capacity by the end of Q1 2023.

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Valley Regional Transit in Idaho to purchase 8 Proterra Catalyst electric buses and charging systems; leasing batteries

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Valley Regional Transit (VRT) in Idaho has agreed to purchase eight Proterra Catalyst 35-foot E2 electric buses and eight Proterra 125 kW plug-in charging systems. VRT is Proterra’s first customer in Idaho and the first transit agency in Idaho to bring electric buses to its community.

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Scientists propose Battery Data Genome, a central data hub for battery innovation

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Tackling the extremely complex technical questions that battery scientists face requires huge amounts of data to generate AI and machine learning algorithms. —Argonne battery scientist Sue Babinec. For batteries, there are many common types of data, but there’s no uniform way of approaching them. —Noah Paulson.

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Electra updates mineral resource estimate at its Iron Creek cobalt-copper project in Idaho

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Iron Creek is one of several cobalt-copper resources and prospects within the Idaho Cobalt Belt, a prospective mineralized system that contains the largest primary resources of cobalt in the United States, according to the US Geological Survey. Electra is a processor of low-carbon, ethically-sourced battery materials.

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Kindred Motorworks partners with KORE Power on battery modules for electrified vintage cars and trucks

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Kindred Motorworks, the San Francisco Bay Area producer of modernized vintage vehicles, has partnered with Idaho-based KORE Power, a developer of battery cell technology, to supply battery modules for the electrified models in the Kindred lineup. Kindred Motorworks selected KORE Power’s VDA 355 format battery modules.

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Dynexus licenses Idaho Lab’s IMB technology for forecasting battery health

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The 2011 R&D 100 Award-winning Impedance Measurement Box (IMB) was invented by INL’s Energy Storage Group in Idaho Falls, Idaho, with support from the DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s Vehicle Technologies Office. This allows informed decisions about the state of health and battery life.

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Independent lab confirms high specific energy and high power of Zenlabs’ new large format electric aviation battery cells

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Zenlabs Energy, a developer of advanced lithium-ion batteries ( earlier post ), announced that Energy Assurance, an independent third-party test laboratory, has validated the high specific energy and high-power of Zenlabs’ new large-format pouch cells for the electric aviation market. Earlier post.).

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