Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Neste’s renewable hydrocarbons are produced entirely from traceable, bio-based raw materials, such as waste and residue oils and fats, providing a high-quality, more sustainable alternative to fossil feedstock.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2022

6K, a producer of engineered materials for lithium-ion batteries and additive manufacturing from its UniMelt plasma technology, has raised $102 million in its Series D funding first close of two planned tranches. This innovation will help realize advancements in energy transformation and the battery value chain.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The remanded the case to BLM to determine whether the company possesses valid rights to the waste dump and mine tailings land it intends to use for the project to support BLM’s decision to issue the ROD. In sum, the Court concludes that BLM’s decision as it relates to approval of land to be used for waste dumps violated FLPMA (43 U.S.C.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2021

DeepGreen is developing a new, scalable source of EV battery metals in the form of polymetallic nodules found unattached on the seafloor in the Pacific Ocean. Rising raw materials prices risk undermining EV manufacturers’ efforts to drive down the cost of EV batteries necessary for mass adoption; and. DeepGreen Metals Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

NFI Group, a leading independent bus and coach manufacturer and a leader in electric mass mobility solutions, has expanded its partnership with North America’s largest lithium-ion battery recycler, Li-Cycle Corp., to offer heavy-duty electric vehicle battery recycling to public transit customers in North America through Li-Cycle.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2022

Cobalt is an important metal in the production of EV batteries, and the cobalt processed from Australia will be used in GM’s Ultium battery cathodes, which will power electric vehicles such as the Chevrolet Silverado EV, GMC HUMMER EV and Cadillac LYRIQ. Cobalt is a metal that makes up only 0.001% of the earth’s crust.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2022

The cobalt, manganese and nickel found in battery cathodes are expensive to mine; scientists have for years sought a way to create new batteries from spent ones. When a car battery reaches the end of its service life, it is collected, dismantled and shredded. Building a battery is like building a tower out of Legos.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 23, 2019

Tesla's manufacturing struggles to build the Model 3 at its Fremont, California, factory have been well documented. The same can't be said for its partner Panasonic, as it struggles to build enough new lithium-ion batteries to power them.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 15, 2022

Modularization, not customization, is how Scania builds BEV trucks that perform various tasks, from mining transport and tipping, waste management, and food delivery.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2023

Credit: Kmusser In addition, these funds include grants to the Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys to conduct geologic mapping in the Chena portion of the Yukon-Tanana region of east-central Alaska, building on earlier Earth MRI geophysical data collection and USGS research. Overall, this act invests $510.7

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2015

GM is using five used battery packs from Chevrolet Volt extended-range electric cars to help power the new General Motors Enterprise Data Center at the Milford Proving Ground. Even after the battery has reached the end of its useful life in a Chevrolet Volt, up to 80 percent of its storage capacity remains.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 5, 2024

Afraid there won’t be enough recycling plants to recycle EV batteries when they start reaching end of life in large numbers? Encouraged by generous government incentives, companies have been investing heavily in battery plants. million EV battery packs per year, but only some 341,000 per year are expected to be available at that time.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 1, 2024

As the car industry’s largest hybrid pusher, Toyota says it is better positioned to just buy credits to close the EPA gap rather than “waste” money on BEVs, its CEO said. Currently, the company is building a $13.9 million battery complex in North Carolina to be used in its EVs and hybrids sold in North America. Get started here.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2021

The Renault Group has entered two major partnerships for the production of Li-ion batteries in France. The first is with Envision AESC —a long-standing partner of Nissan; the second is with Verkor , a Grenoble-based start-up specialized in development of EV battery cells.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2022

General Motors has secured a new source of cost-competitive nickel and cobalt for Ultium battery cells after making a strategic investment in Queensland Pacific Metals (QPM) of Australia ( earlier post ). Queensland Pacific Metals’ proposed TECH Project is poised to become a leading supplier of high-grade, advanced battery materials.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2023

Li-ion battery recycling technology company Aqua Metals ( earlier post ) entered into a strategic partnership with Yulho Co., a storage solution and battery materials company based in South Korea. For the equity investment, Yulho has agreed to the purchase of approximately 4.5

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2022

The Abfallentsorgungs-Gesellschaft Ruhrgebiet mbH ( AGR ), a waste management company in Herten, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, has put a converted DAF CF 340 hydrogen fuel cell truck into operation as part of the EU-funded HECTOR (Hydrogen Waste Collection Vehicles in North West Europe) project.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2021

The National Circular Economy Roadmap found innovation is crucial to realizing Australia’s largest economic gains, which will come from designing new products and materials, including through advanced manufacturing, and in embracing new business models that will create domestic and export markets for waste streams. billion by 2036.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

As the world transitions to sustainable transportation through electric vehicles (EVs), some are considering ways to reduce EV battery waste. One such company includes Volvo, which has announced a partnership to recycle old EV batteries into new energy storage systems. This represents a key opportunity for OEMs like Volvo Group.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2023

Hyundai Motor Group announced the inauguration of its Joint Battery Research Center with Seoul National University (SNU). This collaborative effort between the Group and SNU aims to advance battery technologies and foster industry-academia cooperation to establish global leadership in the battery field.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2022

President Biden signed a directive authorizing the Defense Production Act for usage for the critical materials that go into large-capacity batteries. By taking this action, the President is authorizing the government to use the DPA authorities to build domestic production capability in these key materials. Determination. (a)

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 9, 2024

But now it says it will rely heavily on hydrogen fuel cells generated from plastic, food, and organic waste to power a whole new generation of EVs, from passenger cars to heavy-duty trucks. Rather than plugging in the vehicle as you would for a battery-electric car, hydrogen fuel cells rely on compressed hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2021

million (US$31-million) commitment to build on its momentum in four key research challenges: extending battery life; battery modelling; recycling and reuse; and solid-state batteries. The UK’s Faraday Institution announced a £22.6-million

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2020

H2One consists of a hydrogen generator, a hydrogen storage tank, and hydrogen fuel cells, and batteries. The overall system is controlled by Toshiba’senergy management system H2EMS, which carries out power generation and power storage with associated operation of a 30-kW solar power system and batteries.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2022

The selected projects cover a wide range of sectors contributing to the EU's decarbonization efforts such as production, distribution and use of green hydrogen, waste-to-hydrogen, offshore wind, manufacturing of photovoltaic (PV) modules, battery storage and recycling, carbon capture and storage, sustainable aviation fuels, and advanced biofuels.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2021

The Volvo Group has created the new business area Volvo Energy to strengthen the Volvo Group’s business flow of batteries over the life cycle as well as the customer offer for charging infrastructure. Commercial vehicle batteries will be used for many years in the vehicle before they need to be replaced or remanufactured/refurbished.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The approximately twelve-meter long solo vehicles are equipped with the latest generation of lithium-ion batteries (NMC 3). The battery capacity of 392 kWh each ensures a long operating range. A photovoltaic system on the roof will supply electricity and the waste heat from the chargers will be used to heat the workshop building.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2018

BYD (Build Your Dreams) will deliver two 8R Class-8 battery-electric refuse trucks, fitted with New Way Viper Rear Loader refuse bodies, to Recology in Seattle, WA for use in residential solid waste pick up. The Recology mission represents a fundamental shift from traditional waste management to resource recovery.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2018

Lignosulfonate, a sulfonated carbon waste material, is a major by-product in the papermaking industry. Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) have now developed a method to use this cheap and abundant waste byproduct to build a components for lithium-sulfur batteries. per cycle over 200 cycles.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2023

Aqua Metals, a developer of sustainable lithium-ion battery recycling, announced the successful completion of its Li AquaRefining recycling pilot; transition to 24/5 operations; and production of high-purity, saleable quantities of sustainably recycled battery materials. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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The Truth About Cars

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Ford has said it will restart construction on the electric vehicle battery facility it’s building in Marshall, Michigan, after pausing work when the UAW strike kicked off a couple months ago. As stated previously, we have been evaluating BlueOval Battery Park Michigan in Marshall.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2023

Ford opened the Cologne Electric Vehicle Center, a hi-tech production facility in Germany that will build Ford’s new generation of electric passenger vehicles. The heat is generated by an external power plant and waste incineration plant and provided through a dedicated steam network to Ford.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 18, 2023

In a region known for long, dark winter nights, Polar Night Energy is building a system in the city of Tampere that can heat buildings with stored solar energy — all day, all night, and all winter long. Out of Finland’s energy-related emissions, 82 percent come from heating domestic buildings (Ref. There is nothing special here!”

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Baua Electric

MARCH 19, 2024

On the contrary, Nissan is planning to build two new EVs at the plant, and is also working on a UK battery factory. Also cooperating on the initiative: battery producer AESC , a long-standing partner of Nissan; and Connected Energy , a UK provider of second-life battery energy storage solutions.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2020

It further strengthens our long-term commitment and focus on our Project as we work together with CATL to bring 3Q into full development by building a comprehensive financing plan. Space is available to build the ponds in a suitable location, from a geotechnical perspective. In 2019, the company’s EV battery sales volume reached 40.25

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

A team from Penn State University and start-up EC Power has developed a material-agnostic technology based on asymmetric temperature modulation with a thermally stable dual-salt electrolyte to achieve stable fast charging for Li-ion batteries. 1 battery to 75% (or 70%) state of charge in 12 (or 11) minutes for more than 900 (or 2,000) cycles.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2023

Further development on range across temperature variations, heavy hauling, fine tuning auxiliary load to avoid waste, increased number of hours on current and additional units will support continued technological evolution. CPKC moves essential goods across a 20,000-mile network to support economic growth throughout Canada, the US and Mexico.

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