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$8bn invested to accelerate Toyota battery plant development in North Carolina

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North Carolina is set to host a state-of-the-art Toyota battery plant that will bring in thousands of skilled jobs to the region. The post $8bn invested to accelerate Toyota battery plant development in North Carolina appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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Mining Giant Albemarle Announces Advanced Lithium Tech Park In North Carolina

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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.

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Vingroup member VinES and Li-Cycle launch global battery recycling partnership

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Li-Cycle Holdings, the leading lithium-ion battery recycler in North America, and Vines Energy Solutions ( VinES ), a Vingroup company that specializes in the research, development and manufacturing of advanced batteries for mobility and energy storage applications, launched a global recycling partnership.

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Albemarle lithium net sales up 410% in Q4 2022 to $2.1B

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In December 2022, Albemarle acquired a location in Charlotte, North Carolina, where it plans to invest at least $180 million to establish the Albemarle Technology Park, a facility designed for novel materials research, advanced process development, and acceleration of next-generation lithium products to market.

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

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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.

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

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding a combined $2.8 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. Earlier post.) Of that, $1.6 Li 2 O spodumene concentrate.

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BASF announces winners of the open innovation contest on energy storage

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The winning concepts were: A molten air battery that uses a molten salt electrolyte at elevated temperature from Professor Stuart Licht at George Washington University. A novel rechargeable zinc battery from the research group of Professors Paul Wright and James Evans from the University of California, Berkeley.