Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Solvay and Orbia intend to use two production sites, one for raw materials and the other for finished product, located in the southeastern United States. Solvay, a global leader in PVDF, brings process technology and global market know-how to this venture. Both plants are expected to be fully operational by 2026.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Finnish Minerals Group and Beijing Easpring Material Technology have been investigating and negotiating the possibility to establish a cathode active materials (CAM) plant in Kotka, Finland with an initial capacity of 50,000 t/a and potential for future expansion for the production of cathode active material for lithium-ion batteries.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2023

In addition to the capital investment, the companies have entered into an agreement to negotiate and execute a definitive license agreement whereby Aqua Metals will grant Yulho a license to deploy Aqua Metals’ patented AquaRefining technology in South Korea in its own facilities.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2009

and a leading global supplier of microporous separators used in primary and secondary (rechargeable) lithium-ion batteries, recently submitted an application for grant funding under the US Department of Energy (DOE) Electric Drive Vehicle (EDV) Battery and Component Manufacturing Initiative (DE-FOA-0000026). Earlier post.).

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Charged EVs

MARCH 11, 2024

Charged : Tell me a bit about the global market for rare earths. When you look at the global supply chain for rare earths across all three stages, Asia is dominant, and China in particular. Rare earths are used in nickel metal hydride batteries, but not really to a significant extent in lithium-ion batteries.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2016

Elon himself mentioned during the unveiling that Tesla will be gobbling up much of the world’s lithium supply with plans to produce 500,000 EVs per year. “In In order to produce a half million cars per year•we would basically need to absorb the entire world’s lithium-ion production.” Remember—this is one man, one company.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

Recent market reports have predicted that the global market for large format lithium-ion batteries—such as those used in plug-in vehicle applications—will see a substantial overcapacity in the coming years, with some predicting an excess of more than 100% in 2015. Earlier post.). Click to enlarge.

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