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ARPA-E awarding $39M to 16 projects to grow the domestic critical minerals supply chain

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The selected projects, led by universities, national laboratories, and the private sector aim to develop commercially scalable technologies that will enable greater domestic supplies of copper, nickel, lithium, cobalt, rare earth elements, and other critical elements. Idaho National Laboratory. Colorado School of Mines.

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Groundbreaking for Mercedes-Benz battery recycling factory in Kuppenheim, Germany

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This approach for an integrated recycling concept within a single factory is currently unique in Europe. The LIB Recycling Technology is designed to recover cobalt, nickel, lithium, copper, iron, aluminium, carbon, plastics and manganese into saleable products that can be reused in the battery supply chain.

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Verifying the origin of EV battery materials at the source: Traceability challenges, Part Two

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Progressively, maybe the source of origin will be raised from 20% to 30% US-made, but my perception is, for EVs, it will be very complicated to have 100% of battery components coming from the US with the current technology, meaning with the current chemistry based on nickel, lithium, cobalt, manganese, graphite.

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