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Roskill sees recovery in lithium industry, buoyed by demand from rechargeable battery applications

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In 2019, rechargeable batteries accounted for 54% of total lithium demand, almost entirely from Li-ion battery technologies. Prices continued to slide in Q3 2020, with China spot prices falling below US$5,000/t CIF (Cost, Insurance, and Freight) for battery-grade lithium carbonate; contract prices edged closer to US$10,000/t CIF.

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Volvo Cars inaugurates new battery assembly line at Ghent manufacturing plant

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Volvo Cars formally inaugurated a new battery assembly line at its Belgian manufacturing plant in Ghent, where it will start building its first fully electric car, the XC40 Recharge P8, later this year. Volvo XC40 Recharge powertrain. The XC40 Recharge P8 is the first of a family of fully electric Volvos.

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IDTechEx: Nio spearheading battery swapping expansion beyond China

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There are also other companies in China that offer models with battery swap support, but for the taxi market. Nio has 1071 swap stations in China as of August 2022 but is gearing up to expand its sales and swap station facilities across Europe. Swapping to become more efficient by using smaller batteries.

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Volvo Cars January global sales up 2%; Recharge models up 31%, for 40.7% of all cars sold

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Sales of Volvo Cars´ Recharge models of fully electric and plug-in hybrid cars increased by 31% in January year-on-year, accounting for 40.7% Recharge sales, which in addition to fully electric cars also includes plug-in hybrids, accounted for 59.8% The share of Recharge models accounted for 30.8 compared with January last year.

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Researchers in China report 711.3 Wh/kg Li-ion battery cell

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In a paper in Chinese Physical Letters , researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences report manufacturing practical pouch-type rechargeable lithium batteries with a gravimetric energy density of 711.3 2023) “A 700 Wh kg −1 Rechargeable Pouch Type Lithium Battery” Chinese Phys. Wh⋅kg −1 and a volumetric energy density of 1653.65

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New prototype rechargeable lithium-nitrogen battery

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Now, researchers in China have developed. a rechargeable lithium-nitrogen (Li-N–) battery with the proposed reversible reaction of 6Li + N– ⇋ 2Li–N. Structure and rechargeability of a room-temperature Li-N 2 battery. (A) Its energy output is brief but comparable to that of other lithium-metal batteries. —Ma et al.

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New high performance Janus electrode for rechargeable Na-S batteries

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Researchers in China have designed a high-performance Janus electrode—i.e., containing both cathode and anode properties in the same body—for sodium-sulfur (Na-S) batteries by adopting a metal-organic framework (MOF) to incorporate single Yttrium atoms in a nitrogen-doped rhombododecahedron carbon host (Y SAs/NC). 2c07655.

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