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ARPA-E awards $42M to 12 projects for advanced EV batteries; EVs4ALL program

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Ampcera will develop a solid-state battery incorporating a thermally modulated cell technology (TMCT), developed by EC Power, that was used in conventional lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries to power buses during the 2022 Winter Olympic Games. Award amount: $3,876,363). Award amount: $3,700,000). Award amount: $5,600,000).

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Consortium led by POSCO, Samsung SDI to build $54M cathode materials plant in Chile for EVs

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A consortium led by South Korea’s POSCO and Samsung SDI, and including China’s Sichuan Fulin Industrial Group and Chile’s Molyment, has won a bid to build a cathode materials plant in Chile to support that country’s Li-ion batteries project.

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Altairnano signs MoU with Shenhua subsidiaries for industrial Li-ion energy storage systems in China

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Shenhua S&T and NICE are both subsidiaries of the Shenhua Group, which is the world’s largest producer of coal, and the largest integrated energy company in China. The MoU calls for the launch of a pilot project to deploy and test an Altairnano ALTI-ESS Advantage System at one of Shenhua’s wind farms in China.

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Ceder group at MIT analyzes the limits and opportunities of phosphates as Li-ion cathode materials using a Materials Genome approach

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Gerbrand Ceder, have performed a high-throughput ab initio analysis of phosphates as Li-ion cathode materials, computing the voltage, capacity (gravimetric and volumetric), specific energy, energy density, stability, and safety of thousands of phosphate compounds. Different colors and markers have been used for different elements.

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Elon Musk discusses potential Tesla investment with Magnolia’s PM

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Mongolia possesses large deposits of coal, copper, gold, silver, and other metallic ores. In 2020, reports of large lithium deposits in Mongolia started to spread, making the country a frontier of Li exploration and extraction. The Asian country’s growth was mainly driven by mining revenue.

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Electrovaya to provide repurposed end-of-life electric vehicle Li-ion battery energy storage system to Manitoba Hydro

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First, Lithium-ion batteries become an even more environmentally sustainable product. And two, we help utility companies make wind and solar energy generation as reliable as hydro, nuclear, and coal. By making the end product reusable by utility companies, we address two problems. Sankar Das Gupta, CEO, Electrovaya.

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Pike Research: total capacity of worldwide spinning reserves for the grid to increase 40% by 2022

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By 2022, natural gas and coal plants will still account for 93% of total spinning reserves capacity, but energy storage will grow to 7% of capacity in the same time frame, according to the report. Of particular interest to grid operators are advances in battery technology, particularly lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries.

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