article thumbnail

Mining Giant Albemarle Announces Advanced Lithium Tech Park In North Carolina

CleanTechnica EVs

The #1 provider in the world of lithium for EV batteries is Albemarle Corporation. For the state of North Carolina, that […]. Electrifying transport relies on massively scaling up mining & processing of a handful of minerals. The most famous of those minerals is lithium.

article thumbnail

Toyota to invest up to $5.6B in battery production in Japan and US

Green Car Congress

Toyota Motor Corporation will invest up to approximately US$5.6 billion in Japan and the United States toward supplying automotive batteries for battery electric vehicles (BEVs), for which demand is growing. The company aims to begin battery production between 2024 and 2026. In the United States, approximately US$2.5

Japan 273
article thumbnail

Albemarle to build $180M lithium materials research facility in N Carolina

Green Car Congress

The company anticipates that innovations from the new site will enhance lithium recovery, improve production methods, and introduce new forms of lithium to enable breakthrough levels of battery performance. Albemarle expects initial occupancy of the new facility by early 2025 and completion of the ATP campus by late 2026.

article thumbnail

Albemarle establishes battery materials innovation center; lithium foils as thin as 3 to 5 ?m

Green Car Congress

Specialty chemicals company Albemarle Corporation opened a Battery Materials Innovation Center (BMIC) at its Kings Mountain, North Carolina, site. Moving from conventional graphite battery anodes to lithium metal offers the potential to double energy density and reduce cost by as much as 50%.

article thumbnail

DOE awarding $1.6B to 11 battery materials separation and processing projects as part of $2.8B funding

Green Car Congress

billion to 21 projects to expand domestic manufacturing of batteries for electric vehicles (EVs) and the electrical grid and for materials and components currently imported from other countries. This US-owned and operated manufacturing plant in northern Alabama will be the first of its size in North America. Earlier post.) Of that, $1.6

Parts 459
article thumbnail

LG Chem investing $75M in Piedmont Lithium; 200,000mt spodumene concentrate offtake agreement

Green Car Congress

Piedmont has also agreed to provide LG Chem priority negotiation rights for 10,000 metric tons per year of lithium hydroxide produced by the Company at either of its proposed facilities in Tennessee or North Carolina. NAL is a project of Sayona Québec, a joint venture between Piedmont and Sayona Mining Limited.

article thumbnail

South Carolina becomes battery hotbed with $1.6 billion in investments

Teslarati

A series of massive investments from Albemarle and Cirba Solutions is set to make South Carolina a hotbed for lithium battery production. With the exponential growth in demand for electric vehicles, the need for lithium-ion batteries to fuel them has grown in parallel. The post South Carolina becomes battery hotbed with $1.6