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Tsinghua, MIT, Argonne team discovers lithium titanate hydrates for superfast, stable cycling in Li-ion batteries

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An international research team from Tsinghua University, MIT and Argonne National Laboratory has discovered a series of novel lithium titanate hydrates that show better electrochemical performances compared to all the Li 2 O–TiO 2 materials reported so far—including those after nanostructuring, doping and/or coating.

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Germany launches R&D facility for industrial-scale Li-ion cell manufacturing; €500M in funding

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The production of its proprietary cells, Lithium Titanate Oxide (LT)) and Lithium Graphite/NMC, is based in Willstätt, Germany—currently the largest lithium-ion pouch cell production facility in Europe operating since 2012 with a capacity of more than 1 million cells.

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Leclanché and Narada Power sign strategic global alliance for Li-ion technology

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Leclanché will support Narada with technology transfer to achieve low-cost, scale manufacturing of Leclanché’s proprietary high-cycling and fast-charging lithium titanate (LTO) and high energy density graphite nickel manganese cobalt (G-NMC) battery storage technologies. GWh fabrication facility in 2017.

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Kokam deploys new 24MW and 16MW Lithium NMC energy storage systems for frequency regulation

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The 24 MW system is the largest capacity Lithium NMC ESS used for frequency regulation in the world. These three systems are part of the world’s largest ESS frequency regulation project, which is scheduled to have deployed 500 MW of battery-based energy storage when it is completed in 2017.

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Cornell team uses indium coating to enable use of high-capacity lithium metal anodes

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In complete cells with commercial cathodes (LTO and NCM), these new indium–lithium hybrid electrodes were stable over more than 250 cycles, retaining about 90% of their capacity. Top: Half-cell cycling with Lithium Titanate cathode using the electrolyte of 1 M EC/DMC LiPF 6 with the additives 12 mM In(TFSI) 3 and 10 vol% FEC.

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Li-ion battery maker CATL opens its first North American sales and service facility

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For example, CATL’s long-life endurance battery can achieve up to 15,000 cycles without the need for lithium titanate material, reducing life-cycle costs. In May 2018 the McKinsey Electric Vehicle Index reported that global sales of new EVs had surpassed 1 million units for the first time in 2017. GWh shipped in 2017.

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