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24M Technologies introduces new recycling process for its SemiSolid EV batteries – Charged EVs

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Massachusetts-based 24M Technologies , an MIT spinout that has a partnership agreement with Volkswagen, has unveiled a new recycling process for its SemiSolid EV batteries. After the materials are recovered, they’re cleaned and, if necessary, re-lithiated to bring them back to their original performance levels.

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2023’s Top Stories About Energy

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EnerVenue If you don’t discharge and then recharge them all the way, lithium-ion batteries can last for thousands of charge-discharge cycles. Now imagine a battery that can last through tens of thousands of charge-discharge cycles. NASA Battery Tech to Deliver for the Grid EnerVenue’s nickel-hydrogen battery cells are 1.8

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MIT/Tsinghua high-rate aluminum yolk-shell nanoparticle anode for Li-ion battery with long cycle life and high capacity

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A team of researchers at MIT and Tsinghua University has developed a high-rate, high-capacity and long-lived anode for Li-ion batteries comprising a yolk-shell nanocomposite of aluminum core (30 nm in diameter) and TiO 2 shell (~3 nm in thickness), with a tunable interspace (Al@TiO 2 , or ATO). Earlier post.). Capacity decay is only.

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Berkeley Lab researchers shed light on how lithium-rich cathodes work, opening the door to higher capacity batteries

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The traditional design paradigm for Li-ion battery cathodes has been to create compounds in which the amount of extractable Li + is well balanced with an oxidizable transition metal (TM) species (such as Mn, Fe, Co or Ni) to provide the charge-compensating electrons, all contained in an oxide or sulfide host. It’s not scalable.

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MIT Battery Breakthrough Could Revolutionize Electric Cars : Gas 2.0

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The breakthrough could revolutionize electric car battery technology and pave the way for ultra-fast charging electric vehicles in as little as two years. The discovery came when MIT researchers Byoungwoo Kang and Gerbrand Ceder found out how to get a common lithium compound to release and take up lithium ions in a matter of seconds.

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

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In such an emergency, a bidirectional EV with charge to spare could come to the rescue. The system converted AC grid power to DC power to charge the battery and could also convert DC power from the battery to AC power that could feed both external stand-alone loads and the grid.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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GMs program relies on lithium-ion battery technology that Gioia called "cost, weight and package prohibitive." Ford spokesman in Wards Auto ) 6/9/06 "So, Mr. Ford is saying we’re looking into it. The biggest barrier is the battery." Hes confident that challenge can be met, though. ( Everything is on the table."

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