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JANUARY 9, 2021

one of the world’s leading independent global bus manufacturers, announced the successful completion of a battery recycling pilot with North America’s largest lithium-ion battery recycler, Li- Cycle Corporation. The pilot is Li-Cycle’s first program in the heavy duty vehicle space. subsidiaries of NFI Group Inc., Earlier post.).

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JULY 24, 2023

formerly Hitachi Metals, earlier post ) has developed a technology to manufacture cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) without the previously required process of converting nickel to nickel hydroxide(Ni(OH) 2 ) to produce a precursor that is used as the starting material for the manufacture of cathode materials. Proterial, Ltd.,

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DECEMBER 3, 2020

Li-Cycle Corp., North America’s largest capacity lithium-ion battery recycling company, announced that its Spoke 2 facility at Eastman Business Park (EBP) in Rochester, New York is now fully operational. Li-Cycle says that its recycling services eliminate these inefficiencies without creating any waste as a byproduct.

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OCTOBER 14, 2022

Li-Cycle has started commercial operations in its Alabama Spoke located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Li-Cycle’s fourth Spoke recycling facility in North America has capacity to process up to 10,000 tonnes of manufacturing scrap and end-of-life batteries per year.

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MARCH 9, 2020

Fortum, BASF, and Nornickel have signed a letter of intent to plan a Li-ion battery recycling cluster in Harjavalta, Finland, serving the electric vehicle market. In March 2019, Fortum announced that it had boosted the Li-ion battery recycling rate to more than 80%. Earlier post.).

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Li-Cycle Corp. a lithium-ion battery resource recovery company, will invest more than US$175 million in its first commercial lithium-ion battery recycling Hub at Eastman Business Park (EBP) in Rochester, New York. Earlier post.)

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APRIL 22, 2022

Li-Cycle has selected Veolia Water Technologies as a partner for its lithium-ion battery recycling plant in Rochester, New York. The facility will utilize Veolia’s HPD evaporation and crystallization technology to process recycled lithium-ion battery materials. —Vincent Caillaud, CEO of Veolia Water Technologies.

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APRIL 5, 2023

AM Batteries (AMB), a developer of lithium-ion dry-electrode technology, and Amperex Technology Limited (ATL), a producer of lithium-ion batteries, have teamed up to develop solvent-free electrode manufacturing technology for Li-ion cell production. —Yan Wang, AMB CEO

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JUNE 1, 2022

Nano One and BASF will also use the M2CAM process for higher flexibility in terms of manufacturing approach and resulting product performance, reduced energy consumption and environmental footprint. The joint development plan has various phases and stage gates and is the result of evaluating Nano One’s processes and products.

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JUNE 30, 2023

Aqua Metals, a developer of sustainable lithium-ion battery recycling, announced the successful completion of its Li AquaRefining recycling pilot; transition to 24/5 operations; and production of high-purity, saleable quantities of sustainably recycled battery materials. Earlier post.)

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NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Project partners thyssenkrupp System Engineering GmbH, IAV GmbH, Daimler AG and the Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems IKTS are developing bipolar Li-ion batteries and processes for their fabrication in the EMBATT -goes-FAB project sponsored by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy.

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MARCH 3, 2020

In their most recent collaboration, Henkel and Covestro have developed a solution enabling the efficient fixation of cylindrical li-ion battery cells inside a plastic cell holder. It provides strong adhesion to the substrate material and offers production adaptability through long open times and short cure cycles.

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MAY 22, 2023

A team led by Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) researcher Yan Wang has developed a solvent-free process to manufacture lithium-ion battery electrodes that are greener, cheaper, and charge faster than electrodes currently on the market.

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OCTOBER 4, 2020

Soteria Battery Innovation Group (BIG) has exclusively licensed and optioned a technology developed by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory designed to eliminate thermal runaway in lithium ion batteries due to mechanical damage. —Jianlin Li, a principle investigator of the technology at ORNL.

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OCTOBER 7, 2021

Researchers at Changsha University of Science & Technology in China have used spent asphalt to produce a high-performance universal Li/Na/K-ion anode material. As an anode material for Li-ion batteries, the mesoporous carbon exhibits a reversible capability of 674.2 —Xie et al. 2021.230593. 2021.230593.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The United States Advanced Battery Consortium LLC (USABC) is awarding $2 million to lithium-ion (Li-ion) recycling development project , “Strategic Collaboration for the Development of a Self-Sustaining Model for the Recycling of Large-Format Lithium-Ion (Li-ion) Batteries,” with American Battery Technology Company (ABTC).

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Innovation News Network

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

GDI have began production for an advanced silicon Li-ion battery across Europe, giving the company a major role in battery production. The post Production of breakthrough silicon Li-ion battery begins across Europe appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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DECEMBER 5, 2021

A new study by researchers from Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign seeking to identify the reasons that cause the performance of fast-charged lithium-ion batteries to degrade in EVs has found interesting chemical behavior of the anode as the battery is charged and discharged. —Pidaparthy et al.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2021

France-based specialty chemicals and materials company Arkema announced a 50% increase in its Kynar PVDF fluoropolymer production capacities at its Pierre-Bénite site in order to address the fast-growing demand for materials for lithium-ion batteries. Arkema now aims for sales of at least €1 billion in the battery sector by 2030.

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DECEMBER 29, 2018

Researchers at the University of Virginia (UVA) have devised a process for converting retired Li-ion battery anodes to graphene and graphene oxide (GO). So far, only 1% of end-of-life Li-ion batteries have been recycled. Here, graphite powders from end-of-life Li-ion battery anodes were used to fabricate graphene. .

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MAY 1, 2020

Silicon is an appealing anode material for Li-ion batteries because it can hold about 10 times the electrical charge per gram compared to graphite. Then we used aluminum and higher heat to convert the silicon oxide into silicon, followed by immersion in water and acid to remove by-products. —Xiaolin Li.

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APRIL 25, 2020

Mass production of LIBs can result in environmental concerns during battery manufacturing and disposal. Given that the global lithium-ion battery production capability is ~400 GWh, humongous amount of NMP is needed. —Li et al. —Li et al. Jianlin Li, Yingqi Lu, Tairan Yang, Dayang Ge, David L.

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APRIL 18, 2021

Li-Cycle Corp., the largest lithium-ion battery recycler in North America, will build its third commercial lithium-ion battery recycling facility, to be located in Gilbert, Arizona, within the Phoenix metropolitan area. —Tim Johnston, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Li-Cycle. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 5, 2020

BASF has developed a new anode binder series for Li-ion battery manufacturing. BASF’s Licity product range for lithium-ion battery binders are suitable for pure graphite as well as silicon-containing anodes. Licity lithium-ion battery binders help to prevent electrode swelling, thus enabling higher battery capacities.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2014

Daimler subsidiary Li-Tec will cease production of Li-ion battery cells in December 2015. As quoted in Der Spiegel Daimler-manager Harald Kröger said that “ Our cells are very good, but at current production figures far too expensive. Cells are slated to come from LG Chem. Earlier post.)

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JUNE 9, 2020

Roskill forecasts that Li-ion battery demand will increase more than ten-fold by 2029, reaching in excess of 1,800GWh capacity. In the late 2020s, Li-ion technologies could see increasing competition from other battery technologies, though Li-ion cells are expected to maintain their dominant position, Roskill said.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 11, 2024

Photo: Green Li-ion Green Li-ion has launched North America’s first commercial-scale plant to process unsorted battery waste, or “black mass,” from used lithium-ion batteries. Green Li-ion says its process significantly reduces production time, yielding pCAM in around 12 hours.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Enevate, a pioneer in advanced silicon-dominant lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery technology capable of high energy density and fast charging for electric vehicles (EV), is applying its battery solutions to advanced power cells for the power tool market and other high power applications.

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APRIL 21, 2021

Sionic’s silicon-anode battery cell designs incorporate the company’s complete technology innovations that deliver up to 50% greater energy density, 30% lower cost, and increased safety, and can be integrated into cylindrical, pouch, or prismatic cell formats in existing cell production supply chains and infrastructure. —Ed Williams.

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JANUARY 8, 2021

However, despite Europe’s fast-expanding capacity of Li-ion battery production, its cathode materials production capacity is struggling to keep up. So far, no East Asian cathode materials producers have announced to launch their production in Europe. The EU says it could be self-sufficient in EV batteries by 2025.

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JANUARY 1, 2023

The Lion Electric Company recently completed production of its first lithium-ion battery pack at the company’s battery manufacturing facility located in Mirabel, Québec. Final certification of the first battery pack is expected in the first quarter of 2023, followed by a gradual ramp up of production in 2023.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2021

NFI Group, a leading independent bus and coach manufacturer and a leader in electric mass mobility solutions, has expanded its partnership with North America’s largest lithium-ion battery recycler, Li-Cycle Corp., to offer heavy-duty electric vehicle battery recycling to public transit customers in North America through Li-Cycle.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Researchers from Western University, Canadian Light Source, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have proposed a novel solid-phase Li-S transformation mechanism that enables high energy Li-S batteries in conventional Li-ion carbonate electrolytes. —Li et al.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Umicore, a global materials technology group, is a pioneer in the recycling of rechargeable batteries; its battery recycling plant in Hoboken, Belgium, has an annual capacity of 7,000 tons of lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries and battery production scrap, the equivalent of 35,000 electric vehicle (EV) batteries.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Enevate, a developer of advanced silicon-dominant lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery technology featuring extreme fast charge and high energy density for electric vehicles (EVs) and other markets ( earlier post ), has secured an $81-million Series E funding led by Fidelity Management & Research Company.

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MAY 4, 2023

Aqua Metals is leading the development of the innovative conversion process, designed to replace chemical catalysts with clean electricity, and enables the sustainable production of cost-effective CAM precursors by eliminating embedded emissions, recurring expenses, and chemical waste byproducts.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The new EPIC project coordinated by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is aimed at accelerating the drying of high-quality electrodes for lithium-ion batteries, increasing the energy efficiency of this process and, hence, reducing the cost of production. EPIC is funded by the Federal Ministry of Research with €3 million.

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