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BYD breaks ground on its first sodium-ion EV battery plant

Baua Electric

The world’s largest EV maker, BYD , broke ground on its first sodium-ion battery plant this week. BYD’s Blade Battery powers other automakers’ EVs, including Tesla, Hyundai, Toyota, and Ford, to name a few. Last June, the unit created its own joint venture with Huaihai Holding Group to expand into sodium-ion batteries.

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Hyundai Motor and Kia collaborate with Next Hydrogen to develop advanced alkaline water electrolysis system

Green Car Congress

Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Corporation have signed a memorandum of understanding with Canada-based Next Hydrogen Corporation, a specialist in water electrolysis technology and a subsidiary of Next Hydrogen Solutions Inc., Hyundai Motor and Kia will also oversee the test performance of the new stack.

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India’s Top 10 Lithium-ion Battery Manufacturers for 2023

Electric Vehicles India

Hyundai – EV 5. Reliance – EV Reliance New Energy Solar has acquired Faradion, a UK start-up that develops sodium-ion batteries. The company claims sodium-ion technology is safer and cheaper. The company, along with Hyundai and Reliance, recently bid for its $2.4 Loom Solar – Energy Storage 2. Reliance – EV 3.

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Second-life EV batteries market expected to reach $34.7B by 2027

Teslarati

Sodium-ion. The top companies that are mentioned as key players include Tesla, BYD, Connected Energy, Hyundai Motor Company, Daimler AG, Toyota, and Nissan. Lithium-ion. The uses of these batteries include commercial and industrial energy storage, EV charging, grid charging, and off-grid and residential energy storage.

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What’s Happening in EV Battery Technology

Driivz

Up next: LFPs and solid-state batteries Already powering most of the EVs made in China, lithium iron phosphate batteries , or LFPs, are making their way onto US, European, and other markets in select models from Tesla, Toyota, Ford, and Hyundai.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Low Cost Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing of Reusable Sorbents for Energy and Water Industries, $150,000 Qualification of SAS4A/SASSYS-1 for Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Authorization and Licensing, $674,484 Advanced Reactor Concepts LLC, Chevy Chase, Md. Touchstone Research Laboratory, Triadelphia, W. TerraPower LLC, Bellevue, Wash.

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Japanese carmakers still ‘most sustainable’

Green Cars News

In the report Asian car manufacturers including Toyota, Hyundai, Nissan, Honda, and to a lesser extent, Suzuki have all out-performed their North American competitors. But GM‘s value contributions from carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxide and sodium oxide emissions as well as waste generation are very negative during the period 1999 to 2007.

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