Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2018

China is stepping up its pursuit of control of the lithium supply chain, underpinned by the rapid growth of its lithium-ion battery industry building on agressive policy surrounding electric vehicle sales, according to metals and mining consultancy Roskill.

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Electric Vehicles India

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Climate impact of lithium-ion batteries & how to measure it . Lithium-ion batteries are something which everyone prefers over lead-acid batteries, since the last ten years its been seen used mostly mobiles to every electronic appliance. Read further to know more about the climate impact of lithium-ion batteries. .

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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 says the cell can achieve high energy density and high level of safety at the same time, opening up a new electrification scenario for passenger aircraft.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2021

Sharp price rises and supply shortages for non-active materials used in lithium ion cells are adding pressure to battery manufacturers already facing a rise in battery raw material prices, according to the most recent analysis by Benchmark Mineral Intelligence. year-to-date in July 2021.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2012

Lithium producer Galaxy Resources Ltd says prices for both technical and battery grade lithium carbonate in its key market, China, have risen significantly on the back of tight demand and supply fundamentals, with current prices up almost 17% on the same time last year. —Galaxy Managing Director Iggy Tan.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2016

Showa Denko will expand its production capacity for SCMG carbon-based anode material used in lithium-ion rechargeable batteries (LIBs) in response to growing demand from customers. In addition, SDK started to outsource a part of its SCMG production to a manufacturer in China in this June. Showa Denko K.K.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2019

Researchers at MIT and in China are proposing a new class of dense intercalation-conversion hybrid cathodes by combining intercalation-type Mo 6 S 8 with conversion-type sulfur (HMSC) to realize a Li–S full cell. Typical sulfur cathodes are made up of 20 to 30 percent carbon, he says, but the new version needs only 10 percent carbon.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 12, 2024

CNESA forecast improvements in the economics of battery energy storage in China this year, without providing specifics. Growth in China’s battery storage capacity could slow down in 2024, according to an industry association, as energy storage struggles with low profitability.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 11, 2024

Growth in China’s battery storage capacity could slow down in 2024, according to an industry association, as energy storage struggles with low profitability. Under a more “ideal” scenario, the association sees China’s new energy storage capacity installations rising 19% year-on-year to 41.2GW, the white paper found.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Anovion, with its partners, collaborators and stakeholders, will build 35,000 tons per annum of new synthetic graphite anode material capacity for lithium-ion batteries used in electric vehicles and critical energy storage applications. NOVONIX Anode Materials LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of NOVONIX Limited, was formed in 2017.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Lithium-ion battery pack prices, which were above $1,200 per kilowatt-hour in 2010, have fallen 89% in real terms to $132/kWh in 2021, according to a new report from BloombergNEF (BNEF). On a regional basis, battery pack prices were cheapest in China, at $111/kWh. All prices are in real 2021 $, unless stated as nominal.)

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2018

Price rises are the result of a perfect storm of conditions in China, Roskill said. At the same time, consumption of graphite electrodes in electric arc furnaces (EAFs) began to rise as the Chinese government took steps to halt production of poor quality induction furnace steel.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 12, 2024

Photo by Kindel Media on Pexels.com Japan’s UBE Corporation will build an EV battery chemicals factory in Louisiana to set up a US EV battery supply chain – and compete with China. In July 2022, UBE said it was planning to establish a DMC and EMC joint venture and licensing business in China.)

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2016

A team from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a novel, environmentally friendly low-cost battery. This research was supported by the Guangdong Innovation Team and the National Natural Science Foundation of China. 2016) “A Novel Aluminum–Graphite Dual-Ion Battery.”

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Australia-based emerging lithium producer, Galaxy Resources Limited , has signed a non-binding Letter of Intent (LOI) for the site of a proposed lithium-ion battery project in China. In addition to the LOI, there are a number of conditions that must be satisfied prior to entering into a binding agreement.

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Get Electric Vehicle

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In its Resources and Energy Quarterly, the Australian Office of the Chief Economist (AOCE) predicted that as the market moves into a phase of excess supply, lithium prices will probably fall this year and BloombergNEF’s annual battery price survey predicts the price of the Lithium-Ion battery will also likely to reduce.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2013

In a forecast of the Lithium market through 2017, Roskill Information Services estimates that rechargeable batteries will, in the base-case growth scenario, contribute 75% of the growth in forecast lithium demand to 2017, when total demand for lithium is expected to reach slightly more than 238,000t lithium carbonate equivalent (LCE).

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CN EV Post

APRIL 16, 2023

CATL's sodium-ion batteries are not far from starting to be installed in vehicles, after the Chinese power battery giant unveiled the new batteries in July 2021. CATL's sodium-ion batteries will first be used in Chery's models, the battery maker announced today. The battery pack uses cells with an energy density of 140 Wh/kg.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2012

In an open access paper published in the International Journal of Smart and Nano Materials , researchers from the Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences review significant developments and remaining challenges of practical Li–air batteries and the current understanding of their chemistry. —Zhang et al.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

The battery market currently represents approximately 23% of global flake graphite output and is expected to be a rapidly growing sector due to lithium ion (Li-ion) battery demand (Source: Benchmark Minerals). Specifications achieved by Syrah include fixed carbon of 99.96%, d50 of 15.64

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2014

A production version of the S60L plug-in hybrid will be launched in China early 2015 and will be produced at the Chengdu plant. kWh lithium-ion battery pack installed under the floor of the load compartment. In the default hybrid mode, the carbon dioxide emissions are about 50 g/km. Earlier post.) S60L PPHEV Concept.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2009

Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences Key Laboratory of Molecular Nanostructure and Nanotechnology successfully designed and synthesized a nanocomposite of LiFePO 4 nanoparticles embedded in nanoporous carbon matrix (LFP-NP@NPCM) as a cathode material for high-power, high-energy lithium-ion batteries (LIB) and supercapacitors.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 20, 2024

A new Japanese EV pickup is launching After introducing its new D-Max truck in Bangkok last fall, Isuzu President Shinsuke Minami said the company is “actively taking efforts to realize a carbon-neutral society.” kWh lithium-ion battery. Other Chinese automakers, like Geely’s Radar, are beginning to roll out in overseas markets.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2012

The goal os this project is to explore the potential of new classes of materials for making electrochemically superior, environmentally friendly, and affordable electrodes for lithium-ion batteries that may be used in such applications as electric vehicles. Principal investigators: David H.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2023

Lithium chemicals derived from hard rock sources such as spodumene can be more than three times as carbon-intensive as that from brine sources, according to Benchmark Mineral Intelligence’s (Benchmark Minerals’) Lithium ESG Report. This concentrate is then shipped to China where it is processed into lithium hydroxide.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2015

Nissan continues to work toward achieving its environmental targets set forth in the company's action plan, Nissan Green Program 2016 (NGP2016), through a number of innovative sustainability initiatives in following key areas: Minimizing corporate carbon footprint.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 25, 2023

Honda is focusing on zero traffic collision fatalities and zero environmental impact, and it plans to aim to accomplish those goals via carbon neutrality, using vehicles as an energy source, circulating resources, automated driving and advanced driver-assist systems, and the connected Internet of things. There's more.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2010

Researchers in China and Germany have coated carbon nanotubes (CNT) with a nanoporous layer of TiO 2 to create coaxial nanocables for use as electrode materials in Li-ion batteries (LIB). Carbon provides sufficient electronic conductivity but lacks sufficient ion conductivity. Credit: ACS, Cao et al.

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Teslarati

JULY 29, 2021

Tesla China battery cell supplier Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. CATL) unveiled its sodium-ion battery earlier today, along with a solution that could integrate the cells with lithium-ion batteries in a single pack. Moreover, they’re compatible and complementary with lithium-ion batteries. CATL sold 34.1

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2015

Piloted driving in China: the Audi strategy. Chinese road traffic poses its own special challenges for automated driving functions, the company said. To offer driver assistance systems that are appealing to Chinese drivers as well, Audi launched a project at its R&D Center in Beijing in cooperation with Tongji University in Shanghai.

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EV Central

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The never-ending roll-out of new Chinese electric vehicles continues. Some of them are whacky, some impressive, but all are of potential interest to Australia as Chinese manufacturers consider sales programs down under. seconds, this carbon-fibre, butterfly-door beauty is definitely worthy of the supercar tag. Chery GENE.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 29, 2010

In collaboration with Chinese universities, scientists at IBM Research-China are using advanced analytics, network optimization and simulation technologies to understand the flows of current traffic patterns and model the best actions to take to resolve the increasing burdens on travelers and urban transportation systems.

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EV Central

OCTOBER 27, 2023

GWM Ute EV 2021 GWM Poer EV unveiled in Beijing Unveiled at the Beijing auto show in September, the HiLux-sized Poer – it’s simply called the Ute here – is the electrified spin-off of the Chinese pick-up that will be sold as the GWM Ute in Australia. We’re watching on with interest. JAC EV ute 2023 JAC T9 Hunter pick-up.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 19, 2024

Earlier this month, China announced that it is pouring 6 billion yuan (about US $827 million) into a fund meant to spur the development of solid-state batteries by the nation’s leading battery manufacturers. Car News China reported in April that the WeLion cells have an energy density of 360 watt-hours per kilogram.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2016

“In order to produce a half million cars per year•we would basically need to absorb the entire world’s lithium-ion production.” Tesla’s soon-to-be-completed gigafactory will produce more lithium-ion batteries than the rest of the world combined. Some contracts in China, according to Bloomberg, have seen over $23,000.

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Get Electric Vehicle

OCTOBER 27, 2023

If you come across a safe and reliable battery technology it can be used in the country’s space mission or you found a better alloy that is cheap to produce or lighter in weight and performs well under load it can be used in other sectors or even in the gasoline cars to increase efficiency and reduce carbon emission.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2018

Techrules, a China-based automotive R&D company ( earlier post ) is unveiling the final production design of its Ren RS series-hybrid supercar at the 2018 Geneva Motor Show. Techrules is also developing partnerships with several major China-based global corporations with interest in the micro-turbine recharging technology.

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