Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

HARARE stands for “Hydrogen As the Reducing Agent in the REcovery of metals and minerals from metallurgical waste”. Standard aluminum smelting processes generate about twice as much red mud waste as aluminum metal. Left: In a traditional linear economy, only very minimal volumes of metallurgical waste are used for other applications.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2020

million metric tonnes (Mt) of electronic waste was generated worldwide in 2019, up 21% in just five years, according to the UN’s Global E-waste Monitor 2020. of 2019’s e-waste was collected and recycled. According to the report, Asia generated the greatest volume of e-waste in 2019—some 24.9 A record 53.6

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2023

Aqua Metals has successfully recovered high-purity nickel from lithium battery black mass using its proprietary Li AquaRefining process, utilizing electricity, and without a polluting smelter or the significant chemical waste typical in recycling. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2022

Proterra has been awarded TRUE (Total Resource Use and Efficiency) Certification for multiple manufacturing facilities in recognition of its zero-waste efforts. Proterra is now the first electric vehicle manufacturer to earn multiple TRUE Certifications for zero-waste facilities, according to Green Business Certification Inc ( GBCI ).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2021

Rio Tinto has commenced production of battery-grade lithium from waste rock at a lithium demonstration plant at the Boron mine site in California. An initial small-scale trial in 2019 successfully proved the process of roasting and leaching waste rock to recover high grades of lithium.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2019

The funding will help Sierra Energy further develop and commercialize its FastOx gasification technology, which converts virtually any waste into clean, renewable energy and fuels without burning. Waste is fed into the top of the gasifier vessel through an airlock. Purified oxygen and steam are injected into the base.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2023

Fortum Battery Recycling has started to examine the feasibility of installing a production facility for sustainable secondary battery materials in the industrial area of Artern, Thuringia, Germany. The black mass facility will be Fortum Battery Recycling’s second hub in Central Europe.

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Innovation News Network

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Discover how a significant breakthrough in the realm of battery waste upcycling could help pioneer next gen battery cathodes. The post University of Birmingham researchers unveil breakthrough in upcycling battery waste for next-gen cathodes appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2023

Aqua Metals has successfully recovered critical battery metal from spent lithium-ion batteries at production scale by electroplating. Reclaiming metals with the company’s closed-loop electroplating technology could enable economically favorable and efficient production of high-purity products from spent lithium batteries.

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Electrek

APRIL 11, 2024

Green Li-ion has launched North America’s first commercial-scale plant to process unsorted battery waste, or “black mass,” from used lithium-ion batteries.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2022

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) has announced up to $6 million available ( DE-FOA-0002620 ) for research and development (R&D) projects that will repurpose domestic coal resources for products that can be employed in clean energy technologies such as batteries and advanced manufacturing.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2023

With the current global projection of over 130 million electric vehicles (EVs), there soon will be a need for battery waste management. With the current global projection of over 130 million electric vehicles (EVs), there soon will be a need for battery waste management. La 3 Zr 1.5 La 3 Zr 1.5 202202361

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 12, 2021

By Paul Bell The EU and the UK risk wasting €27bn in battery investments if they fail to strengthen car and van CO2 emission standards, analysis from Transport & Environment (T&E) shows. While investors have poured billions into the battery industry, and Europe is set to have enough batteries to […].

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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

MAY 9, 2023

The Tesla Lithium refinery will suport about 1 million EVs worth of battery-grade lithium per year. Tesla said that it is prioritizing the elimination of the sodium sulfate refinery waste with the process it is developing. Groundbreaking ceremony at Tesla Lithium. The earthmovers are already in operation.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2022

FREYR Battery has awarded a strategic alliance frame agreement to South Korea-based Hana Technology. Hana Technology develops precision automation solutions for battery facilities and other industrial operations. Hana Technology develops precision automation solutions for battery facilities and other industrial operations.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2022

GM is introducing a patented heat-pump in its Ultium-based EVs that captures and repurposes waste energy from the battery. Through the Ultium Platform’s energy recovery system, this waste energy can increase a vehicle’s range, reduce battery energy needed for heating, increase charging speed and even enable sportier driving.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2022

NEO Battery Materials, a developer of silicon anode materials, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with an Asia-based producer of high-purity silicon powder through recycling silicon by-product waste from solar photovoltaic cell and semiconductor manufacturing. The recycler will remain confidential until officially disclosed.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2022

A team from Central South University, Changsha, China and Shaanxi University of Science & Technology, Xi’an, China, has proposed a mechanochemistry-based process to recover metals from waste cathode materials of LiCoO 2 (LCO) and LiFePO 4 (LFP) in spent Li-ion batteries (LIBs). —Jiang et al. of Li and 88.6% M H 2 SO 4.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

million in funding for 10 projects to advance technologies and processes for electric vehicle (EV) battery recycling and reuse. Advanced batteries are vital to the entire clean energy economy, but the US currently does not produce enough of the critical minerals and battery materials needed to power clean energy technologies.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Yesterday, it was reported that various counties in California were suing Tesla for violations of the State’s health code for “intentional or negligent disposal of hazardous waste.” The post Here’s a list of every county suing Tesla for its handling of hazardous waste appeared first on TESLARATI.

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The Driven EV News

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Caffeine extraction process can recycle EV batteries using less chemicals and secondary waste, new research says. The post Coffee up: Scientists tackle EV battery recycling with less waste appeared first on The Driven.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2023

RecycLiCo Battery Materials has achieved another milestone in its demo plant testing efforts, successfully producing bulk quantities of battery-grade lithium carbonate from an industrial feed of cathode scrap.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Demand for lithium-ion batteries is set to grow six-fold by 2032, according to Benchmark. Scrap from gigafactories will be the primary source of recyclable battery material for the next decade, according to Benchmark’s Recycling Report. Collecting process scrap is far simpler than collecting end-of-life batteries, however.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2023

Researchers from Technische Universität Darmstadt, Universität Stuttgart, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, and Universität des Saarlandes have developed a two-step recycling approach for all-solid-state Li-ion batteries (lithium ASSBs). Waidha et al. Within such ASSBs, the use of solid-electrolytes like garnet-type Li 6.5 La 3 Zr 1.5

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 17, 2022

Toward the end of last month, we missed an important press release from GM in the shuffle of cleantech news, but it’s something that’s worth going back to, because it’s an important piece of a big efficiency problem that plagues every automobile: getting some good from waste heat.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2021

one of the world’s leading independent global bus manufacturers, announced the successful completion of a battery recycling pilot with North America’s largest lithium-ion battery recycler, Li- Cycle Corporation. We are thrilled to work with New Flyer in spearheading closed-loop resource recovery of electric bus batteries.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Sakuu, the developer of Swift Print solid-state battery technology ( earlier post ), entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with LiCAP Technologies , a provider of sustainable and scalable electrode coating solutions. LiCAP first processes a blend of battery materials and adds a proprietary compound to activate the formulation.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2023

Under the framework of the MOU, the two companies will work together to explore opportunities to jointly develop EV battery recycling businesses in the UK. This will include the joint development of a UK supply chain of end-of-life lithium-ion batteries for recycling. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2023

Ohio University’s Institute for Sustainable Energy and the Environment was awarded two of the six awards, one that explores how coal waste can be reimagined as energy storage and the second aims to develop ultra-conductive carbon metal composite wire for electric motors. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2021

At the “SK Innovation Story Day” briefing session in Seoul last week, Dong-Seob Jee, President of SK Innovation’s Battery Business, said from its current 40 GWh battery production level, the company expects to reach 85 GWh in 2023, 200 GWh in 2025 and more than 500 GWh in 2030. trillion won (US$2.2 billion) in 2025, he said.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2022

hard carbon (SiC/HC, SiC/O), derived from the carbothermal reduction of silica-depleted rice hull ash (SDRHA), can function as Li + battery anodes that are potentially competitive with silicon anodes. RHA is considered an agricultural waste. SiC) and > 740 mAh g -1 (Li 1.1 SiC), respectively, after 600 cycles.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 25, 2024

US truck maker Mack Trucks , a subsidiary of Volvo , has delivered a Mack LR Electric refuse vehicle to Florida-based Coastal Waste & Recycling. Coastal Waste & Recycling is also piloting Volvo Construction Equipment’s CE EC230 Electric 23-ton excavator. Nextran Truck Centers will provide service and support.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2021

Researchers at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) have designed a membrane-free (MF) Mg-CO 2 battery as an advanced approach to sequester CO 2 emissions by generating electricity and value-added chemicals without any harmful by-products. a) Schematic illustration of MF Mg-CO 2 battery. (b) —Kim et al.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Researchers from The University of Birmingham in the UK have demonstrated that the direct reuse of aluminum and copper current collectors from spent lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) is possible. The ever-increasing number of spent lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) has presented a serious waste-management challenge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2014

In May, researchers at MIT and Stanford University reported the development of new battery technology for the conversion of low-temperature waste heat into electricity in cases where temperature differences are less than 100 ?Celsius. Batteries Waste Heat Recovery' A vast amount of low-grade heat ( —Yang et al.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2020

North America’s largest capacity lithium-ion battery recycling company, announced that its Spoke 2 facility at Eastman Business Park (EBP) in Rochester, New York is now fully operational. Li-Cycle says that its recycling services eliminate these inefficiencies without creating any waste as a byproduct. Li-Cycle Corp.,

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