Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2021

(CATL) unveiled its first-generation sodium-ion battery, together with its AB battery pack solution—which is able to integrate sodium-ion cells and lithium-ion cells into one pack. The sodium-ion battery has a similar working principle to the lithium-ion battery; sodium ions shuttle between the cathode and anode.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Dendrites and whiskers are holding back the widespread use of lithium metal batteries, which have higher energy density than their commonly used lithium-ion counterparts. Li whisker formation during electrochemical deposition of Li in a CO 2 environment. a–c, Sequential TEM snapshots of Li particle nucleation.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The generated inorganic salts, including lithium, cobalt, nickel, and manganese, can be easily recollected from the flashed anode waste using diluted acid, specifically 0.1 The particles are recovered from lithium-ion batteries and treated through Rice’s flash Joule heating process. —Chen et al. Courtesy of the Tour Group.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2014

Start-up Power Japan Plus announced plans to commercialize a dual-carbon battery technology, which it calls the Ryden dual carbon battery. Dual-carbon (also called dual-graphite) batteries were first introduced by McCullough and his colleagues at Dow Chemical in a 1989 patent, and were subsequently studied by Carlin et al.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2022

In contrast, the capacity of the bare silicon-carbon anode dropped to 600 mAh g -1 within 90 cycles. As the demand for lithium-ion batteries increases, silicon, which is the eighth-most abundant material on earth, will be a promising environment-friendly alternative to graphite. 2c00278.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2013

The participating companies, including BMW, Daimler AG, Elring Klinger, Manz AG, and Rockwood Lithium, signed a letter of intent at the groundbreaking ceremony on 29 May in Ulm. The new research production line project was initiated by the “Lithium-ion Batteries Network of Expertise” (KLiB).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2023

With the water-based production of the high-capacity NMCA cathodes, we have reached a decisive milestone in lithium-ion technology. These are highly toxic and harmful to the environment. With the 10-30 per cent lower energy consumption, the Leclanché process also reduces the carbon footprint of battery cell production.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2021

Leading silicon and carbon products company Elkem has successfully commissioned its industrial pilot for battery materials in Kristiansand, Norway, starting industrial scale pilot production for customers. Rechargeable lithium-ion batteries typically consist of four main components: An anode, a cathode, an electrolyte and a separator.

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Green Car Congress

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. Sustainability and carbon emissions associated with the supply chain are of growing importance.

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Electrek

JULY 19, 2022

Solid state batteries have the potential to reduce the carbon footprint of EV batteries by up to 39% compared with liquid lithium-ion batteries, according to the Brussels-based campaign group Transport and Environment (T&E).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2023

The UK plant designed by Hatch will have the capacity to process 50,000 tonnes of lithium-ion battery black mass, equivalent to approximately 150,000 electric vehicles per year or 10 GWh of lithium-ion batteries. It is designed to process a mix of different battery chemistries, including LCO, LFP and NMC.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2011

The German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung or BMBF) intends to fund a new pilot plant for the development and optimization of lithium-ion cells in Ulm. The 25 KLiB members include BASF, Deutsche Accumotive, SGL Group, Hoppecke, Merck, Varta, ads-tec, and the ZSW, amongst others.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

In its new Lithium Outlook to 2030 report, Roskill notes that the prolonged downward trend for lithium compound and mineral concentrate prices has caused a difficult environment for many lithium producers since 2018. In 2019, monthly average lithium carbonate prices fell 36% between January and December.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2018

Researchers at The University of Western Ontario (UWO) have discovered a new conductive phase during the carbon-coating process of lithium iron phosphate (LFP) cathode material that can improve the electrochemical performance of lithium-ion batteries. Surface conductive phase formation during carbon coating process. (a)

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Anovion, with its partners, collaborators and stakeholders, will build 35,000 tons per annum of new synthetic graphite anode material capacity for lithium-ion batteries used in electric vehicles and critical energy storage applications. NOVONIX Anode Materials LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of NOVONIX Limited, was formed in 2017.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2023

With IBIS, the electronic conversion boards that perform the power inverter and charger functions are mounted as close as possible to the lithium-ion battery cells. The intrinsic architecture of the IBIS battery will simplify the maintenance and upgrade of the facility and reduce the site’s carbon footprint.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2021

million funding opportunity ( DOE-FOA-0002553 ) to support manufacturing innovations for high performance clean energy technologies to drive economy-wide reductions in carbon emissions, including: Topic area 1: Manufacturing Process Innovation. Topic Area 3a: Structured Electrode Manufacturing for Lithium-ion Batteries.

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Clean Fleet Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Questions & Answers from our Friends at EarthTalk® Are solid-state electric vehicle (EV) batteries a solution to some of the issues with the lithium-ion batteries powering our EVs today? As demand for EVs keeps rising, reducing the carbon footprint associated with their production and operation becomes imperative.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2023

Lithium-ion battery electrodes are usually made using a wet slurry with toxic solvents, an expensive manufacturing approach that poses health and environmental risks. They are “highly chemically desirable” because their structure allows lithium ions to take a more direct path between the anode and cathode, researchers found.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2023

The team succeeded in establishing synthesis conditions by optimizing the arrangement of sulfur and silicon powders and creating a perfectly sealed environment to withstand the vapor pressure of sulfur at 800 degrees of reaction temperature. The quality of the resulting product was comparable to the commercially available products.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2021

In a paper published in the journal Applied Energy , they report devising a methodology to estimate the levelized cost of energy (LCOE) of meeting the seasonal nature of variable renewable energy (VRE) resources with either a hydrogen-fired gas turbine (HFGT) or lithium-ion battery system (LI). —Emre Gençer, co-author.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

The 15,000 dmt DSO sale was tendered on a CIF (Cost, Insurance and Freight) basis to several pre-screened participants active in the lithium-ion battery supply chain. If converted with 70% concentrate recovery rate, this lot would deliver about 300 mt of lithium carbonate equivalent (LCE).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2015

A team from Chonnam National University and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have developed a 3D nanoarchitecture of germanium (Ge) coated with carbon (3D-Ge/C) for use as ultra-high rate anodes for Li-ion batteries. Energy Environ. The 3D-Ge/C shows excellent cyclability: almost 86.8%

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2022

and Chengdu Environment Group. Supported by its technological advantages in EV battery manufacturing, battery swapping, zero carbon operation and energy storage, CATL will conduct innovative technology research, product and scenario development and project incubation in the above mentioned areas.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2017

Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) are ubiquitous power sources for consumer electronics due to high energy density and long cycle life. The conventional lithium ion battery electrolyte is a 1.0-1.5 V circumscribing its application in high-voltage lithium ion cells. V cut-off voltage.) Credit: Su et al.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

A graphene nanotube is a unique form of carbon that can be imagined as a graphene sheet, with a thickness of one atom, rolled into a tube. For example, batteries with OCSiAl nanotubes are already in serial production by a number of leading Lithium-ion battery makers.

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Charged EVs

APRIL 1, 2024

The two main processes for recycling lithium-ion batteries are pyrometallurgy and hydrometallurgy. Pyrometallurgy, which traditionally doesn’t recover carbon or lithium, seems likely to be phased out. There are currently two main processes for recycling lithium-ion batteries.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The development of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) with a reduced weight, higher capacity, and longer service life is considered to be the most important strategy to address the critical needs of applications such as next-generation mobile electronics and electric vehicles. 1 after 300 cycles) and a commercial-level areal capacity (5.58

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2011

Researchers at Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany, have improved the performance of sodium-ion batteries ( earlier post ) by using tailor-made carbon materials with hierarchical porosity for the anode instead of common carbon-based anode materials. prepared a carbon material with interconnected pores in two size ranges.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2023

During spirited driving and in low traction environments, E-Ray’s eAWD system applies additional power to the front wheels, helping to enhance vehicle stability. New lightweight lithium-ion 12-volt battery that supports the LT2 V-8 engine’s stop/start functionality. (The original 1953 Corvette came with a 3.9-liter liter (235.5

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Baua Electric

MAY 19, 2023

Extra chemistries, corresponding to lithium iron phosphate deployed by way of some carmakers together with Toyota, have tradeoffs and aren’t essentially wholesale substitutes for lithium ion, Pratt stated. “Lithium ion is here for quite some time because it’s so good,” Pratt stated.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2010

Illustration of the carbon-coated SnO 2 hollow nanospheres in solvothermal synthesis with different thicknesses of SnO 2 shell. Researchers at National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan have synthesized tin oxide (SnO 2 ) hollow nanospheres covered with a carbon layer for anode material in lithium-ion batteries.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2012

A team from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore has used DNA to functionalize double wall carbon nanotubes (DWNTs) and to direct the growth of ultra-small FePO 4 nanoparticles (~5 nm) uniformly distributed on the DNA@DWNT for the development of a novel network nanostructure. doi: 10.1039/C2EE21320F.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2022

350 Wh kg -1 ) for electric vehicles, energy storage, and portable electronics, developing novel electrochemical systems is indispensable to overcome the disadvantages of the commercial lithium?ion ion batteries (LIBs), although it is challenging. Class) Li||NCM811 Cells with A Wide Temperature Range of 100 °C” Energy Environ.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Lithium-ion battery pack prices, which were above $1,200 per kilowatt-hour in 2010, have fallen 89% in real terms to $132/kWh in 2021, according to a new report from BloombergNEF (BNEF). All prices are in real 2021 $, unless stated as nominal.) This marks a 6% drop from $140/kWh in 2020.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 31, 2012

Researchers at Cornell University are proposing a new scheme for cathodes for lithium-sulfide batteries ( earlier post ) to prevent lithium polysulfide dissolution and shuttling during electrochemical cycling. polyacrylonitrile), to control the distribution of lithium sulfide in the host material. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

The active material, conductive carbon and binders are dispersed in a solvent to make a paste, which is initially applied to the metal foil to form a wet coating. Removing toxic solvents and long, energy-intensive drying machines from the process benefits the environment. We are even looking at solid-state batteries.

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