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APRIL 13, 2021

Battery Resourcers offers a new approach to lithium-ion battery manufacturing, starting with a mixed stream of used lithium-ion batteries and ending with the production of finished, battery-ready cathode active materials. Lithium carbonate (Li 2 CO 3 ) is also a current product offering. as a spinout from the lab of Prof.

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JUNE 21, 2023

Tesla is rumored to be purchasing wireless charging company Wiferion, a Freiberg, Germany-based entity with charging and power solutions. ” The company has worked to provide over 100 companies with wireless charging solutions since 2015, when it initially started developing products. .”

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FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Toyocolor, the colorants and functional materials arm of the specialty chemicals company Toyo Ink Group of Japan, announced that the company’s Lioaccum conductive carbon nanotube (CNT) dispersions ( earlier post ) have been selected by the world’s largest battery manufacturer CATL (Contemporary Amperex Technology Co.,

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FEBRUARY 17, 2016

National Electric Vehicle Sweden (Nevs) has signed a framework agreement on taking a 50% stake in Chinese transport vehicle manufacturing company New Long Ma ( NLM ). The company has during the last three years invested three billion RMB (US$459 million) in a new plant that today has a production capacity of 150,000 vehicles per year.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Hyundai Motor Company and Cummins Inc. The companies will also explore ways they can work together to develop next-generation fuel cell systems, and have each committed to assign a team of individuals to investigate and pursue other areas of collaboration. —Thad Ewald, Vice President, Corporate Strategy, Cummins Inc.

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AUGUST 10, 2015

Additive manufacturing (3D printing) company Carbon3D Inc. was named one of the World Economic Forum’s 49 Technology Pioneers for 2015. Carbon3D joins the Technology Pioneers program as the first additive manufacturing company to be selected.

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JULY 12, 2023

The Li-ion battery systems to be manufactured will include LTO, LFP and NMC technologies. Its construction will increase Impact’s production capacity to 1.2 The fully automated production line will make it possible to produce a new battery for heavy-duty e-mobility every 11 minutes. GigafactoryX production line.

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JULY 13, 2016

The BMW Group has been using components from 3D printers in series production since 2012; more than 10,000 additively-manufactured parts are built into the Rolls-Royce Phantom. Planar 3D printing technologies will enable much faster production times and more economical production.

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JUNE 3, 2022

as the official name of its battery joint-venture company. Danies Lee has been appointed chief executive officer (CEO) of the new company. NextStar Energy will be Canada’s first large-scale lithium-ion battery production plant. He was responsible for US market sales and was based in San Jose, California, from 2015 to 2018.

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MAY 24, 2018

To prepare for this growth, the company unveiled plans for two major new facilities: a brand-new building near its original automobile factory for expanding fuel cell (FC) stack mass production, and a new line in an existing plant to manufacture high-pressure hydrogen tanks. Expanding sales.

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MAY 18, 2020

These projects concern, in particular, the traceability of financial transactions and communication with equipment manufacturers and the sales network. Groupe Renault has been working on blockchain technology since 2015. Some of these will be deployed soon.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Mullen Automotive, an emerging EV manufacturer, is acquiring a controlling interest in EV truck maker Bollinger Motors. This is Mullen’s first EV acquisition and propels the company into the medium-duty truck classes 3-6, along with the B1 and B2 sport utility trucks. The purchase price is $148.2

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2017

HTS International Corporation and the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have signed an agreement to explore potential collaborations in advanced manufacturing research such as in conformal cooling. HTS has developed accurate, practical simulation techniques to understand and optimize productivity.

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OCTOBER 14, 2017

Ohio-based Strangpresse has exclusively licensed additive manufacturing-related extruder technology from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory that can quickly print hundreds of pounds of polymer material. —Bill Peter, director of DOE’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility at ORNL.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2020

USA Rare Earth, LLC, the funding and development partner of the Round Top Heavy Rare Earth and Critical Minerals Project in West Texas, has purchased the neodymium iron boron (NdFeB) permanent magnet manufacturing equipment formerly owned and operated in North Carolina by Hitachi Metals America, Ltd.

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JULY 17, 2020

As part of its mine-to-magnets strategy, earlier this year USA Rare Earth purchased the sintered neo magnet manufacturing equipment formerly owned and operated in North Carolina by Hitachi Metals America, Ltd. This does not include magnets in finished and semi-finished products that are imported. Geomega Resources Inc., Earlier post.)

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Teslarati

JANUARY 13, 2022

In 2014 when Narendra Modi officially became Prime Minister of India, his first message to people around the world was that, under his leadership, Indian manufacturing operations would become one of the world’s most robust. Five years after the initiative began, India’s manufacturing GDP was the lowest it had been in twenty years.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2016

The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Cincinnati Incorporated have signed a nonexclusive licensing agreement on ORNL patents related to large-scale additive manufacturing. Our goal is to demonstrate the potential of large-scale additive manufacturing as an innovative and viable manufacturing technology.

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MARCH 27, 2022

The company manufactures flat steel products—primarily hot-rolled plates and coils—for both domestic and international markets. The initiative involves more than 40 members and associates, consisting of steel chain companies and civil society organizations around the world. ArcelorMittal Tubarão.

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JULY 18, 2021

The financing round will enable the company to scale from the batch processing of materials to commercial roll-to-roll production. In addition to having an extremely low carbon footprint, MIRUM requires no water during manufacturing and dyeing. NFW was founded in 2015 and is based in Peoria, Illinois.

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OCTOBER 7, 2017

DENSO will create more than 1,000 jobs in Maryville, Tennessee to make it a primary manufacturing center in North America for electrification and safety systems. The investment will also expand multiple production lines to produce advanced safety, connectivity, and electrification products for hybrid and electric vehicles.

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MARCH 12, 2016

Elio Motors, the startup vehicle manufacturer planning to launch a three-wheeled vehicle that will get up to 84 mpg with a targeted base price of $6,800, will sell 100 pre-production vehicles built at its Shreveport, Louisiana, production facility fourth quarter of 2016. —Elio Motors founder and CEO Paul Elio.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

As part of an agreement to resolve alleged Clean Air Act violations, the company will pay a $1,125,000 penalty, which was reduced due to XDP’s limited financial ability to pay a higher penalty. XDP manufactured and/or sold more than 27,000 aftermarket defeat devices between January 2015 and May 2017.

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JUNE 23, 2021

Under most of the mass-production plans, the solid-state battery will likely take off after 2025, although small-scale production may happen even earlier, IDTechEX said. In 2015, Volkswagen took a 5% stake in QuantumScape, Dyson acquired Sakti3, Bosch acquired SEEO, and Johnson Battery Technologies sold its solid-state batteries to BP.

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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. We have realized that a car manufacturer does not have to produce the cells themselves. ”.

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APRIL 16, 2023

China-based GigaDevice Semiconductor, a manufacturer of flash memory, 32-bit microcontrollers (MCUs), sensors, and analog technology, has shipped 100 million units of its leading automotive-grade (AEC-Q100) GD25/55 SPI NOR and GD5F SPI NAND flash series. GigaDevice has been engaged in the automotive segment since 2015.

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MARCH 18, 2020

The Thailand Board of Investment announced that Thailand has received more foreign direct investment supporting the country’s growing electric vehicle production ecosystem. We are pleased to welcome the location of a Mercedes-Benz battery production facility to the Bangkok region. million units in 2018.

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JANUARY 19, 2018

The Volkswagen brand has founded “Volkswagen Mobility Solutions Rwanda”, a company based in Rwanda. The vehicle fleet required for the planned mobility solutions is to be taken entirely from local production. Overall, Volkswagen and its partner companies will create up to 1,000 jobs in Rwanda. US$20 million (approx. €16

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MARCH 14, 2017

the developer and manufacturer of Aqueous Hybrid Ion (AHI) batteries and energy storage systems ( earlier post ), filed a voluntary petition under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court of the District of Delaware. Aquion Energy Inc., Supported by VC funding, Aquion spun out of CMU in 2009.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2014

Continental’s eBike System will enter production in the fourth quarter of 2014 and will be on display at the Eurobike trade fair from 27-30 August; the company had presented a prototype of the system at the Eurobike trade fair in 2013. After successful sampling by the manufacturers, production will start in the fourth quarter of 2014.

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DECEMBER 22, 2010

Hyundai Motor Company has completed development of its next-generation hydrogen fuel cell vehicle—the Tucson ix Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle (FCEV)—and will begin testing next year with an eye toward 2015 mass production. Tucson ix Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.). ix FCEV Tucson FCEV.

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AUGUST 4, 2016

Tesla reported a $293-million GAAP net loss for Q2, a 59% increase from the $184-million net loss for Q2 2015. Tesla said that production and demand are on track to support deliveries of approximately 50,000 new Model S and Model X vehicles during the second half of 2016. This marks Tesla’s 13 th consecutive quarterly loss.

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MAY 9, 2017

million for 13 projects designed to stimulate the use of high performance supercomputing in US manufacturing. Among the awardees were Ford Motor Company and LanzaTech. The US Department of Energy is awarding nearly $3.9 Earlier post.). Applied Materials, Inc., Applied Materials, Inc., LBNL will partner with Samsung Semiconductor, Inc.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2015

Jaguar Land Rover will double the size of its Engine Manufacturing Center (EMC) in the UK as part of a £450-million (US$679-million) expansion program. billion) making it the most significant new automotive manufacturing facility to be built in the UK in the last decade.

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MAY 23, 2016

Over the past five years, the growth of electrochemical energy storage market in China has outpaced that of the global market, with a CAGR (2010-2015) of 110%—six times as high as that of the global. million in 2015, up by 3.13% year-in-year. In 2015, Samsung SDI invested KRW682.2 In May 2016 alone, nearly RMB2.6

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MARCH 12, 2021

To accelerate Li-Metal battery commercialization, GM is working with several innovative companies and making investments that will allow the company to scale quickly. The 2015 investment was the start of a close working relationship between SES and General Motors’ research and development organization. —Mark Reuss.

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JANUARY 30, 2017

General Motors and Honda are establishing the auto industry’s first manufacturing joint venture—Fuel Cell System Manufacturing, LLC, FCSM)—to mass-produce an advanced hydrogen fuel cell system that will be used in future products from each company. Earlier post.). Earlier post.) GM and Honda rank No.

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