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BYD breaks ground on its first sodium-ion EV battery plant

Baua Electric

The world’s largest EV maker, BYD , broke ground on its first sodium-ion battery plant this week. FinDreams began building BYD’s Blade Battery in 2020. Last June, the unit created its own joint venture with Huaihai Holding Group to expand into sodium-ion batteries. BYD is investing $1.4

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Battery revolution! Has Stellantis cracked the code for super-cheap EVs that will undercut ICE?

EV Central

The global auto giant Stellantis has done a deal with a French battery-maker to secure fresh sodium-ion battery technology for its future EVs that could see electric cars finally undercut petrol cars on purchase price. Not that sodium-ion batteries are perfect, not just yet at least. READ MORE: Range anxiety solved?

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Aqua Metals is building a more sustainable battery recycling ecosystem

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The company is building a new plant in Nevada, and aims to be processing 10,000 tons of black mass (equivalent to about 150,000 EV battery packs) annually by 2025. That’s not to say that over the coming years, as we build a brand-new closed-loop recycling industry, that that doesn’t start to verticalize a little bit more.

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BYD produces 200K units of its most affordable EV 

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Elon Musk says Tesla will build €25k EV at Giga Berlin Forbes speculated that the Seagull, labeled Blade, might be equipped with BYD’s lithium-ion phosphate batteries. The BYD Seagull was also rumored to be using a sodium-ion battery pack, but it has yet to be confirmed by the Chinese automaker.

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Alberta Innovates & NRCan awarding $26.2M to three oil sands clean tech projects; industry kicking in $43.3M

Green Car Congress

This announcement is a result of NRCan’s Oil and Gas Clean Tech Program. DSU uses molten sodium to reduce the levels of sulphur, metals, acid (TAN) and asphaltenes in heavy oil feedstocks, including oil sands bitumen. This FEED study will be a building block for a full-scale commercial plant. million, for a total of $26.2

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Energy Harvesting for Wearable Technology Steps Up

Cars That Think

Wearable devices, like nearly every other piece of tech, need energy. The best-known wearable energy-harvesting tech today is, of course, solar, which pulls down electrons from sunlight or ambient light. Leveraging watch tech for…bisons? Fortunately, though, at wearables’ modest power budgets, energy is effectively everywhere.

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President Obama Awards $2.3B for Tax Credits for New Clean-Tech Manufacturing Jobs; GE Gets Largest Battery-related Award

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RE-Gen LLC will receive a $903,480 credit to support building a factory to produce Biomass Gasification Furnaces with a capacity of 250 systems/year. GE claimed the largest of the battery-related awards, with a $25.5 In the biomass sector, Novozymes Blair, Inc.