Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Researchers at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) and US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have developed a lithium-air battery with a solid electrolyte. The battery is rechargeable for 1000 cycles with a low polarization gap and can operate at high rates. —Kondori et al.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2021

Freudenberg Sealing Technologies (FST) has expanded its material testing capabilities to include performance and compatibility evaluations of the rubber, elastomers and thermoplastics used to seal and safely maintain lithium-ion batteries. What we can now offer customers is design security based on scientific data.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Northvolt has assembled the first battery cell at the newly commissioned Ett gigafactory in northern Sweden. The cell is the first to have been fully designed, developed and assembled at a gigafactory by a homegrown European battery company.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Rechargeable magnesium and calcium metal batteries (RMBs and RCBs) are promising alternatives to lithium-ion batteries because of the high crustal abundance and capacity of magnesium and calcium. This work provides a versatile electrolyte design strategy for divalent metal batteries. —Hou et al.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

KULR Technology Group, a developer of lithium-ion battery safety and thermal management technologies, will provide its KULR-Tech Safe Case to lithium-ion battery recycler Heritage Battery Recycling (HBR), a new platform company of The Heritage Group, for the safe transportation logistics of HBR’s battery collection operations across North America.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2023

Researchers led by the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have extended the capacity and duration of sodium-aluminum batteries. The new sodium-based molten salt battery uses two distinct reactions. The team previously reported a neutral molten salt reaction. of peak charge capacity. —Weller et al.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 7, 2022

In March, Enovix which designs and manufactures 3D Silicon™ lithium-ion batteries, announced its latest development, BrakeFlow™ (BrakeFlow). The company noted that its lithium-ion cell architecture is […]. The company noted that its lithium-ion cell architecture is […].

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2023

In order to enable fast-charging ability in batteries, researchers have attempted to enhance the mass transfer of electrolytes and charge transfer in electrodes, with extensive research carried out on the former compared to the latter. It is an undesired process leading to reduced battery life and limiting fast charge capability.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2023

The Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology IWS in Dresden is leading a research project targeting a new generation of sulfur-based batteries. Free of the critical elements cobalt and nickel used in lithium-ion technology, sulfur achieves very high energy densities in solid-state batteries.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2023

Nyobolt, the developer of ultra-fast charging niobium-based battery technology ( earlier post ) has partnered with UK designer Callum to showcase its advanced battery technology in an Elise-inspired electric sports car that can charge in six minutes.

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Innovation News Network

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Researchers from KIST are driving battery innovation through a self-designed battery analysis platform. The post Improving safety and performance of a lithium-ion battery appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2022

A team from Central South University in China has developed a new type of deep eutectic solvent (DES) that can efficiently leach metal elements from spent Ni-Co-Mn lithium-ion batteries (LNCM). In reality, the production of nickel–cobalt–manganese (NCM) lithium-ion (LNCM) batteries is much larger than that of LCO batteries.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2022

A University of Michigan team has shown that a network of aramid nanofibers, recycled from Kevlar, can enable lithium-sulfur batteries to overcome their Achilles heel of cycle life, delivering an estimated 1,000 real-world cycles. Biomimetic engineering of these batteries integrated two scales—molecular and nanoscale.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2022

Researchers at Idaho National Laboratory have used machine learning techniques that incorporate charging data to create unique charging protocols for superfast charging methods tailored to different types of electric vehicle batteries. Charging EV Li-ion batteries is a balancing act. —Eric Dufek, Ph.D.

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Cars That Think

JULY 30, 2023

Fifty years after the birth of the rechargeable lithium-ion battery, it’s easy to see its value. It was manufactured in small volumes by Exxon, appeared at an electric vehicle show in Chicago in 1977, and served briefly as a coin cell battery. Did Exxon invent the rechargeable lithium battery?

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

European 3D solid-state battery start-up LionVolt successfully closed a seed round of €4 million, bringing its total funding this year to more than €5 million. LionVolt spun off last year from TNO at Holst Centre, building on six years of research and development of its innovative battery design. 3D solid-state battery (3DSSB).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2022

Benchmark Mineral Intelligence has launched a Lithium-ion Battery Raw Material Price Index. The index is published every month for the following lithium ion battery chemistries: NCM High-Nickel (8 and 9 series blends, e.g. NCM 811, NCM 9). LFP (lithium iron phosphate). Lithium hydroxide (CIF Asia).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2022

Nissan unveiled its prototype production facility for laminated all-solid-state battery (ASSB) cells, which the company aims to bring to market in 2028. This prototype facility, within the Nissan Research Center in Kanagawa Prefecture, is aimed to further promote the development of all-solid-state-batteries.

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Baua Electric

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Here is the list of the top 10 lithium-ion battery manufacturers in India Exide Industries Limited: One of the leading battery manufacturers in India, Exide has also ventured into lithium-ion battery production.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2023

Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory have developed a fluorinated cation electrolyte that could enable high-voltage lithium metal batteries. Fluorides have been identified as a key ingredient in interphases supporting aggressive battery chemistries. An open-access report on their work is published in Nature Communications.

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Teslarati

JULY 26, 2021

Elon Musk recently hinted at a very welcome and simple update for Tesla’s vehicles, especially those which have already replaced their 12-volt batteries in the past. According to the CEO, Tesla would be looking into the idea of equipping older vehicles with a 12-volt lithium-ion battery, similar to the Model S Plaid.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2022

Lithium-ion batteries function during charge and discharge cycles by moving charge from one electrode to another across an electrolyte material. Lithium-ion batteries function during charge and discharge cycles by moving charge from one electrode to another across an electrolyte material. 4.023019.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Since its commissioning earlier this year, the Demo Plant has verified a 163% increase in actual leach processing capacity over the 500 kg/day planned capacity and 99% leach extraction efficiency of lithium-ion battery cathode waste material using RecycLiCo’s patented closed-loop process.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2022

Optodot is a developer and licensor of nano-composite battery separators and infrared optical coating technologies, based in Devens, Massachusetts. META’s Advanced Materials and Battery Products group will continue joint development, licensing, and manufacturing scale-up of Optodot’s technology in partnership with leading OEMs.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

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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Teslarati

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Swedish battery manufacturer Northvolt announced that on December 28th, it successfully produced the first lithium-ion battery cell to be designed, developed, and built completely in Europe by a homegrown company. Northvolt Ett’s first Prismatic Lithium-ion cell. Credit: Northvolt).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

PPG received funding from the US Department of Energy (DOE) for research into the use of two versatile, high-output processes in the production of lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery electrodes. The three-year, $2.2-million

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2021

a developer of multi-process additive manufacturing (AM) technology, has produced a 3Ah lithium-metal solid-state battery (SSB) that equals or betters current lithium-ion batteries. These first-generation batteries comprise 30 sub-cells, utilize lithium-metal and a proprietary printed ceramic separator.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2021

Leclanché SA has developed a new, high-energy 65 Ah lithium-ion pouch cell to meet the demands of bus and truck manufacturers seeking increased range and operating time for fully electric and hybrid-electric vehicles. Leclanché’s new high energy, 65 Ah lithium-ion pouch cell is designed for energy intensive applications.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Penn State researchers have developed a lithium-ion battery that charges at an elevated temperature to increase reaction rate but keeps the cell cool during discharge, showing the potential to add 200 miles of driving range to an electric car in 10 minutes. Wang and the team found that the batteries preheated to 60 ?C

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Empire State Development (ESD) announced that Canada-based Li-Cycle Corporation will establish its first US-based Li-ion battery recycling facility in New York State. Li-Cycle Technology uses a combination of mechanical size reduction and hydrometallurgical resource recovery specifically designed for lithium-ion battery recycling.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Lyten , an advanced materials company, introduced its LytCell EV lithium-sulfur (Li-S) battery platform. The technology is optimized for the electric vehicle market and is designed to deliver three times (3X) the gravimetric energy density of conventional lithium-ion batteries. No conflict minerals.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 1, 2023

The Lion Electric Company recently completed production of its first lithium-ion battery pack at the company’s battery manufacturing facility located in Mirabel, Québec. Final certification of the first battery pack is expected in the first quarter of 2023, followed by a gradual ramp up of production in 2023.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Sakuu Corporation ( earlier post ) has successfully and consistently 3D-printed fully functional high-performance batteries in custom shapes and sizes since December 2022. Further, our printing process can allow for substantial gains in energy density for a completed battery.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2018

Siemens and Northvolt, a company working to build a European Li-ion gigafactory with 32 GWh of battery capacity ( earlier post ), are partnering for the development of best-in-class technology to produce high-quality lithium-ion batteries. Supply of lithium-ion batteries.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Researchers at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) in Korea have developed an innovative electrolyte additive that enables a high-energy-density Li-ion battery to retain more than 80% of its initial capacity even after hundreds of cycles. The amount of metal inside the anode determines the battery capacity.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2021

Daimler Truck AG and lithium-ion battery manufacturer and developer Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. CATL will be the supplier of lithium-ion battery packs for the Mercedes-Benz eActros LongHaul battery-electric truck, which is planned to be ready for series production in 2024.

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