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AirCapture, OCOchem and partners win $2.93M DOE grant for direct air capture of CO2 and conversion to formic acid

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Carbon dioxide capture company AirCapture and carbon dioxide conversion company OCOchem, along with other partners, have won a $2.93-million AirCapture develops on-site, modular technology that captures CO 2 from the air using waste heat from manufacturing plants, enabling customer operations to go carbon neutral and even negative.

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DOE awarding $73.9M to 10 battery recycling projects

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American Battery Technology Company. Supplying Refined Battery Materials into the United States Electric Vehicle Battery Supply Chain by Synergizing Lithium-ion Battery Recycling with Mine Waste Reclamation. The University of Alabama. Cirba Solutions. Element Energy. Michigan Technological University. Princeton NuEnergy.

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Li-Cycle starts operations at its first European lithium-ion battery recycling facility

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The Germany Spoke utilizes Li-Cycle’s Generation 3 Spoke technology to directly process all forms of lithium-ion battery waste, including full electric vehicle (EV) battery packs, without the need for discharging, dismantling or thermal processing.

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BlueFire Renewables Signs 15-Year Feedstock Supply Contract for Cellulosic Ethanol Facility

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Cellulosic biofuels company BlueFire Renewables, Inc. Under the Agreement, CMT will pursue a least-cost strategy for feedstock supply made possible by the project site’s proximity to feedstock sources and the flexibility of BlueFire’s process to use a wide spectrum of cellulosic waste materials in pure or mixed forms.

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Coskata touts two years of operation of its semi-commercial biomass and MSW to ethanol facility

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a developer of technology for the production of advanced biofuels and biochemicals from biomass and waste materials, achieved two years of successful operations at their cellulosic ethanol semi-commercial facility in Madison, Pennsylvania this month. Coskata, Inc.,

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Vitruivan crowd-sourcing funding for novel biofuel from sewage treatment bio-solids

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EEB is produced from organic waste, including (and initially) sewage treatment bio-solids—the leftover, dirt-like organic material that remains after a community’s wastewater is treated. With 20 days left in the campaign, the company has raised $3,500 of a targeted $200,000. Vitruvian has modeled production costs at $2.58-3.73

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Hyundai Motor to invest $85B over next 10 years to accelerate transition to smart mobility provider

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The company aims for 2 million units in annual EV sales by 2030. President and CEO Jaehoon Chang explained how the company’s second-generation dedicated EV platform, under the new Integrated Modular Architecture (IMA), will replace its Electric-Global Modular Platform (E-GMP) going forward. trillion (US$27.8

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