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Redwood Materials and Rotary collaborate to collect used batteries

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The company invites more people to collaborate on similar events or learn more about what they can do to build a clean energy future. They shared their experience working with us create a more sustainable future. The organization accepted lithium-ion and nickel metal hydride batteries.

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Industry study finds lead-acid to remain most wide-spread automotive energy storage for foreseeable future; new chemistries continue to grow

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The study, which provides a joint industry analysis of how different types of batteries are used in different automotive applications, concludes that lead-based batteries will by necessity remain the most wide-spread energy storage system in automotive applications for the foreseeable future. Lead-based batteries.

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Honda to reuse rare earth metals contained in used parts

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As part of this effort, before the end of this month, Honda and Japan Metals & Chemicals will begin extracting rare earth metals from used nickel-metal hydride batteries collected from Honda hybrid vehicles at Honda dealers inside and outside of Japan.

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JERA and Toyota deploy first large capacity Sweep Energy Storage System with second-life batteries

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In the future, demand for storage batteries is expected to grow as they become necessary supply-stabilizing tools when expanding renewable energy in the movement toward CO 2 emissions reduction. The 485 kW / 1,260 kWh facility will comprise lithium-ion batteries, nickel metal-hydride batteries, and lead-acid batteries.

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Kyoto University team proposes selective dismantling to increase recycling potential of precious metals from end-of-life vehicles

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ABS, ETC, NiMH, LIB and PWB signify anti-lock braking system, electronic toll collection, Nickel metal hydride (battery), Lithium-ion battery, and printed wiring board, respectively. The team set 2015 as the reference year and 2040 as the target year to reflect the current and future situations. —Xu et al.

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NSF to award $13M to projects focused on electrochemical and organic photovoltaic systems

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Work on commercially available systems such as lead-acid and nickel-metal hydride batteries will not be considered by this program. For organic photovoltaics, the program emphasis is for fundamental research on innovative processes for the fabrication and theory-based characterization of future organic PV devices (OPVs).

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Toyota Accelerates Switch To Lithium-Ion Batteries, Still Lags Others

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Toyota is one of few automakers still using nickel-metal hydride batteries in its hybrid vehicles, but that could change for its next generation vehicles. Reuters reports that the company aims to boost production of more common lithium-ion technology by six times for its future products.