Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2023

At Auto Shanghai, Chinese battery giant CATL launched what it calls a “condensed battery”—a type of semi-solid state cell with an energy density of up to 500 Wh/kg. CATL also says it can achieve mass production of condensed battery in a short period of time.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award $42 million to 12 projects to strengthen the domestic supply chain for advanced batteries that power electric vehicles (EVs). Project K is developing and commercializing a potassium-ion battery, which operates similarly to Li-ion batteries. Award amount: $3,198,085).

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 22, 2023

Lithium is abundant, but difficult to extract and purify for use in batteries. Last year, the price of lithium carbonate peaked at over $80,000 per ton, although it has come down considerably since then. Oddly enough, people who don’t bat an eye about oil and gas wells within a few feet of homes and schools […]

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2022

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $45 million in funding ( DE-FOA-0002760 ) to support the domestic development of advanced batteries for electric vehicles. Advanced batteries capable of safe, rapid charging are necessary to appeal to these Americans who are unable to charge cars at home for long periods of time.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2022

Penn State researchers have proposed cold sintering as an improved method of solid-state battery production that enables multi-material integration for better batteries. This prevents fire-causing short circuits, but also in theory it enables solid-state batteries to have higher energy density. —Zane Grady, lead author.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2014

Researchers at the University of Maryland, with colleagues at the University of Illinois at Chicago, report on a new method for expanding graphite for use as a superior anode for sodium-ion batteries in a paper in Nature Communications. Sodium (Na) is an earth-abundant and inexpensive element, and shares many properties with lithium.

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Plug In India

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

By Kamlesh & Raphae Every major automaker has announced plans to build Lithium-Ion battery gigafactories. The aim is to build batteries at a large scale to reduce prices. In India, OLA Electric and Tata group have plans to make cells at a large scale. Video: EV Guru: Sodium-Ion Batteries are Coming Sooner Than You think!

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2021

UKRI announced a further investment of £10 million (US$14 million) from the Faraday Battery Challenge to support collaborative R&D projects co-funded by industry and managed by Innovate UK on behalf of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Pre-feasibility studies have shown that the Jadar project has the potential to produce both battery-grade lithium carbonate and boric acid. The consumption of sulfuric acid is predictable with negligible chemical reaction of most gangue minerals—apart from a portion of the carbonates and soluble chlorides.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2015

E-bike powered by Faradion prototype Na-ion battery pack. British battery R&D company Faradion has demonstrated a proof-of-concept electric bike powered by sodium-ion batteries at the headquarters of Williams Advanced Engineering, which collaborated in the development of the bike. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2019

nine battery-related efforts. The Energy Commission’s Electric Program Investment Charge program, which drives clean energy innovation and entrepreneurship, funds the California Sustainable Energy Entrepreneur Development (CalSEED)Initiative. NanoDian : Low-cost, safer, cobalt-free, nanostructured lithium-ion battery cathode material.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2011

BC Hydro has selected S&C Electric Company, a renewable energy integration company, for a sodium-sulfur (NaS) battery energy storage project intended to improve service reliability for a remote mountain community in British Columbia.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2016

Researchers from George Washington University and Vanderbilt University have demonstrated the conversion of atmospheric CO 2 into carbon nanofibers (CNFs) and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) for use as high-performance anodes in both lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries. —Stuart Licht. —Licht et al.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

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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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

Conventional processes for manufacturing battery electrodes involve mostly toxic solvents and require a lot of space and energy. Germany will consume around 655 terawatt hours of electrical energy in the year 2030—an increase of almost 20% compared to today. We are even looking at solid-state batteries.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2020

The study contemplates expanding the existing facility and adapting it to be North America’s first producer of cobalt sulfate, an essential component in the manufacturing of batteries for electric vehicles. The outlook for electric vehicles and the push by automakers to develop shorter supply chains creates an excellent opportunity.

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Electric Vehicles India

APRIL 6, 2021

Low-cost 5V dual carbon battery development for EV . A 5V Dual Carbon Battery that uses self-standing carbon fibre mats as both electrodes such as cathode and anode has been developed by the Electrochemical Energy Storage Lab at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IITH).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

A team of researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory has synthesized amorphous titanium dioxide nanotube (TiO 2 NT) electrodes directly grown on current collectors without binders and additives to use as an anode for sodium-ion batteries. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2023

Exceptionally high selectivity for lithium over other ions present in the brine (including sodium, potassium, magnesium, calcium, and boron), meeting specifications for subsequent direct production of battery-grade lithium hydroxide monohydrate, without the need to first produce lithium carbonate. g/L) and Ca (7.2 m3 per day.

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Charged EVs

APRIL 1, 2024

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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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2022

Researchers at the Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium have designed and synthesized a new class of electrically conducting anionic coordination polymers for all practically relevant alkali-cation storage. V in lithium-, sodium-, or potassium-based cells. V for Li-, Na- and K-ion batteries. —Wang et al.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Scheme of the new full sodium-ion battery, which combines an intercalation cathode and a conversion anode. Mn 0.25 ]O 2 layered cathode (NFM), and NaClO 4 in fluoroethylene carbonate and ethyl methanesulfonate electrolyte. For the anode, they selected carbon-modified iron oxide (C-Fe 3 O 4 ) conversion material.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2011

Example of a lithium-water rechargeable battery. Researchers at the University of Texas, including Dr. John Goodenough, are proposing a strategy for high-capacity next-generation alkali (lithium or sodium)-ion batteries using water-soluble redox couples as the cathode. The present sodium-sulfur battery operates above 300 °C.

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Driivz

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

From how much they cost and weigh to the amount of power they store and how long they take to charge, electric vehicle (EV) batteries have a significant impact on EVs themselves, the EV industry as a whole, and ultimately EV buyers. All three components offer opportunities for improvement. Anodes are most commonly made of graphite.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2017

lithium, sodium or potassium) on a copper–carbon cathode current collector at a voltage of more than 3.0 Traditional rechargeable batteries use a liquid electrolyte and an oxide as a cathode host into which the working cation of the electrolyte is inserted reversibly over a finite solid-solution range.

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Baua Electric

MAY 19, 2023

Sodium-based chemistries, for instance, have decrease power densities since the sodium molecule is greater than the lithium molecule. Sodium batteries may well be put to raised importance in desk bound energy packs, while lithium ion ones may proceed having extra advantage in automobiles.

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Setec Powerr

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

The reason why electric vehicles are developing rapidly is that they rely on batteries as their power source. As the core of electric vehicles, batteries have naturally become the focus of research and development by global car companies. Today I will tell you about the types of batteries used in electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2023

The researchers hope that this strategy could help to engineer an improved anode material in next-generation batteries. Graphite contains flat layers of carbon atoms, and during battery charging, lithium atoms are stored between these layers in a process called intercalation. This offers several benefits. Resources Bayhan, Z.,

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2016

John Goodenough, known around the world for his pioneering work that led to the invention of the rechargeable lithium-ion battery, have devised a new strategy for a safe, low-cost, all-solid-state rechargeable sodium or lithium battery cell that has the required energy density and cycle life for a battery that powers an all-electric road vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2023

While beneficial to consumers, especially battery manufacturers, the use of such nickel in the battery industry is not sustainable as it has an extremely high carbon footprint and other significant environmental impact. Nornickel remains the largest high-grade nickel producer with one of the lowest carbon footprints.

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Electric Vehicles India

JUNE 26, 2021

Cost-effective catalysts for metal-air battery. The Union Ministry of Science & Technology said that the ARCI has developed cost-effective catalysts for a metal-air battery that will help to decrease cost and increase the efficiency of metal-air batteries.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

O 2 battery (0.5 The dash lines indicate the calculated thermodynamic potentials for the batteries. O 2 ) battery with low overpotentials. mA/cm 2 —the lowest ever reported in metal-oxygen batteries, according to the team. mA/cm 2 —the lowest ever reported in metal-oxygen batteries, according to the team.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 1, 2024

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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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2022

RECLAIM: Electrochemical Lithium and Nickel Extraction with Concurrent Carbon Dioxide Mineralization ($2,999,997). The technologies use electricity to extract valuable metal ions from the surrounding mineral matrix at sub-boiling temperatures. Feedstocks will include Li/Ni/Ca/Mg-rich igneous and sedimentary minerals.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2012

Schematic representation of the working principle behind a complete cycle of the desalination battery, showing how energy extraction can be accomplished: step 1, desalination; step 2, removal of the desalinated water and inlet of seawater; step 3, discharge of Na + and Cl ? in seawater; step 4, exchange to new seawater. Click to enlarge.

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Clean Fleet Report

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Can We Extend the Life of EV Batteries and Reduce Fire Risks? EVs reduce carbon emissions and dependence on fossil fuels, but the lithium-ion batteries that power them suffer from an image problem. How can we make them safer without compromising battery life ? Trail Blazers—Safety Features in Li-Ion Batteries.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Researchers at Oregon State University have shown that potassium can work with graphite in a potassium-ion battery (KIB)—a discovery that could offer a challenge and sustainable alternative to the widely-used lithium-ion battery (LIB). Even at 5C (1395 mA/g), the soft carbon retained a capacity of 140 mA/g.

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