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Lamborghini licenses MIT’s Cobalt-free organic battery tech for EVs – ET Auto

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The new battery also has comparable storage capacity and can be charged up faster than cobalt batteries. Researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ), including one of Indian-origin, have designed a new battery material that could offer a more sustainable, cobalt-free way to power electric cars.

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French researchers develop sodium-ion battery in 18650 format; performance comparable to Li-ion

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Researchers within the RS2E network on electrochemical energy storage (Réseau sur le stockage électrochimique de l’énergie) in France have developed the first sodium-ion battery in an 18650 format. The main advantage of the prototype is that it relies on sodium, an element far more abundant and less costly than lithium.

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Aqua Metals is building a more sustainable battery recycling ecosystem

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The economic benefits of recycling Li-ion batteries are clear, but at present, only a small percentage of them are recycled. In contrast, lead-acid batteries have a 99% recycling rate in the US. The two main processes for recycling lithium-ion batteries are pyrometallurgy and hydrometallurgy.

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Energy Harvesting for Wearable Technology Steps Up

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Wearable devices, like nearly every other piece of tech, need energy. And today, technology is maturing to the point that meaningful amounts of these energy giveaways can be harvested to liberate wearables from ever needing a battery. Leveraging watch tech for…bisons? Batteries die before animals do.

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Total Signs Research Agreement with MIT to Develop New Stationary Batteries for Solar Power; Smaller-Scale Version of All-Liquid Metal Battery Work Supported by ARPA-E

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Total has signed a research agreement with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to develop new stationary batteries that are designed to enable the storage of solar power. The batteries are envisioned to be smaller-scale versions of the utility-scale batteries being developed by Donald Sadoway, John F.

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Tech Talk: How sodium-ion batteries could slash the price of EVs | Autocar Professional

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Car technology has never been in such a state of flux as it is now, and given lithium-ion batteries only really became a commercial big deal in the 1990s, the sudden shift towards cars powered by them is extraordinary. SIBs are benign, containing no lithium or cobalt, and sodium is abundant worldwide.

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ARPA-E awarding $39M to 16 projects to grow the domestic critical minerals supply chain

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Innovations are based on a recent discovery of rapid mineral-leach kinetics with reagents that can be regenerated by an electrochemical process inspired by flow-battery technologies. The chemistry and process may enable the replacement of smelters for processing sulfide minerals. An estimated 2.2 2,200,000). Johns Hopkins University.

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