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DRX Consortium to accelerate commercialization of disordered rock salt (DRX) cathode materials

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DRX cathodes could provide batteries with higher energy density than conventional lithium-ion battery cathodes made of nickel and cobalt, two metals that are in critically short supply. In a rock salt structure, cations (positively charged ions) and anions (negatively charged ions) are arranged in a specific pattern.

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Gravity Batteries, Green Hydrogen, and a Thorium Reactor for China

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2021 was a big year for energy-related news, what with the ongoing hunt for new forms of energy storage and cleaner if not carbon-free electricity and events and research that spotlighted the weak links in our power grid. While lithium isn’t exactly in short supply, extracting it from the ground exacts a huge environmental cost.

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Nissan to breathe new life into lithium-ion batteries

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What will happen to lithium-ion batteries once they have been used in electric cars? The two companies are planning to initiate a business venture to “Reuse, Resell, Refabricate and Recycle” lithium-ion batteries, in what is known simply as the 4R business model.

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Argonne white paper outlines battery and R&D requirements for electric aviation

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A new white paper published by the Argonne National Laboratory Collaborative Center for Energy Storage Science (ACCESS) outlines a clear set of battery requirements and research and development needs to accelerate the commercialization of electric propulsion for aviation—from air taxis in the near term to 737 class aircraft in the long term.

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139. THE SUN WILL RISE FROM THE WEST: Predictions for 2022

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The United States has also made it clear that it will remain energy independent, with more policies that raise the export barriers on several technologies. With electricity, there is no physical energy traversing oceans the way oil tankers did. Therein lies the conflict. The race to scale SSB into manufacturing is real.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

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The need for large-scale electrochemical energy storage as a grid-stabilizing source of demand disappeared. When utilities considered storage technology at all in the succeeding decades, it was generally in the form of pumped-storage hydropower, an expensive piece of infrastructure that could be built only in hilly terrain.

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Li-ion Reserve in the World: How it Revolutionised the EV Industry

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Lithium-Ion Batteries: The Game Changer. The Roadster used three-phase, four-pole AC induction motors and was the first to install lithium-ion batteries in a production car and the first to demonstrate a 200-mile driving range. Tesla and other modern electric cars (except a few) owe lithium-ion batteries to their success.

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