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Tesla supplier Piedmont Lithium gets key North Carolina mining permit – ET Auto

Baua Electric

” Piedmont agreed to a deal with Tesla last year to supply spodumene concentrate, a key raw material for making batteries, to the auto giant through 2025, with an option to renew it for another three years. ” Four of the board’s seven members have terms that will end this December.

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

Charged EVs

Increasing the efficiency of recycling offers a way to “close the loop,” creating a circular supply chain that can provide the needed raw materials for batteries and other components and minimizing the need to expand the world’s mining operations. While I was at my PhD, that’s actually where we developed the core technology. O’Connor: No.

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ORNL team recommends focus on isostatic pressing for solid-state battery manufacturing

Green Car Congress

Isostatic pressing would also be relatively easy to scale up commercially—a finding that has garnered significant attention as companies race to supply solid-state batteries to car manufacturers. Several leading auto companies have announced their intention to sell electric vehicles that run on solid-state batteries within a few years.

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Ioxus introduces new iCAP ultracapacitor series with a 3,000F cell

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Ioxus is targeting a number of markets for the iCAP: transportation drives or systems (comprising several specific sub-groups, notes Chad Hall, Founder and VP Sales); grid power storage; large regenerative energy capture (e.g., Quick Specs. Capacitance (F).

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