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Nth Cycle says its electroextraction tech significantly reduces transportation costs for Li-ion battery recycling

Charged EVs

My co-founder Chad Vecitis, who’s now our VP of R&D, was a full-time professor at Harvard and actually developed this technology over 10 years ago. Charged : In a typical lithium-ion battery recycling process, would this be an added step that would help what’s currently used, or would it replace things? O’Connor: Yes.

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Push for new US lithium mine leaves some Americans wary – ET Auto

Baua Electric

.” With President Joe Biden working to build domestic EV and battery industries, companies are seeking supplies in United States — which has major lithium deposits in Nevada, North Carolina and California. Chad Brown, chair of the Gaston County Board of Commissioners, said: “We have to get it right.

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Big Science tools for clean transportation: neutron scattering at ORNL

Green Car Congress

Operating at 85 MW, HFIR is the highest flux reactor-based source of neutrons for research in the United States, and provides one of the highest steady-state neutron fluxes of any research reactor. Thomas Watkins; Hassina Bilheux; Ke An; Andrew Payzant; Ryan Dehoff; Chad Duty; William Peter; Craig Blue; and Craig Brice.