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Heliogen and Bloom Energy demonstrate production of low-cost green hydrogen; concentrated solar and high-temp electrolysis

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NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The extended operating time of Heliogen’s technology and Bloom Energy’s ability to utilize heat efficiently is designed to reduce the cost of green hydrogen production compared to competing solutions. Source: Heliogen. Bloom Energy officially introduced the Bloom Electrolyzer in July 2021.

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Low Cost Hydrogen Solar Green

Argonne-led team develops new low-cost cobalt-based catalyst for PEM electrolysis

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MAY 31, 2023

A multi-institutional team led by the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) has developed a low-cost cobalt-based catalyst for the production of hydrogen in a proton exchange membrane water electrolyzer (PEMWE). The anode catalyst uses iridium, which has a current market price of around $5,000 per ounce.

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USABC awards 24M $3.8M contract to support the development of low-cost, fast-charging Li-metal batteries

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APRIL 15, 2023

The two-year project, which includes a 50% cost share, will focus on the development of a low-cost, fast-charging EV battery technology. The continued growth of the EV industry requires lower-cost, faster-charging batteries. The continued growth of the EV industry requires lower-cost, faster-charging batteries.

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Low Cost Charging Batteries Battery

DOE awarding $46M to 8 companies to support commercial fusion energy development

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JUNE 4, 2023

These awardees will work to acheive important technical and commercialization milestones to advance successful design of a fusion pilot plant (FPP) to move fusion toward technical and commercial viability. Commercial fusion power on a decadal timescale with the compact, high-field ARC power plant.

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Fusion Commercial Energy Companies

Gevo develops process for low-cost renewable isoprene; building block for rubber and rubber products

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FEBRUARY 3, 2019

has developed a proprietary catalytic process that transforms low-cost commercially available, or even waste by-product, renewable alcohols into renewable isoprene that would be expected to compete head-to-head on price with natural and petroleum-based chemical equivalents while reducing CO 2 emissions.

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Low Cost Renewable Production Building

Westinghouse, Bloom Energy to accelerate large-scale hydrogen production in nuclear industry; high-temperature integrated electrolysis

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JUNE 7, 2022

Westinghouse Electric Company and Bloom Energy Corporation have entered into a Letter of Intent to pursue clean hydrogen production in the commercial nuclear power market. The companies are teaming to identify and implement clean hydrogen projects across the nuclear industry.

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Hydrogen Industrial Industry Energy

6K Energy to implement Forge Nano ALD equipment for commercial production of NMC 811 materials

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AUGUST 29, 2023

a provider of precision nano-coating technology, and 6K Energy, a developer of critical materials for lithium-ion batteries, signed an agreement to implement commercial-scale production of 6K Energy’s US-made battery materials with Forge Nano’s proprietary Atomic Armor surface technology platform (commercial-scale Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD)).

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Commercial Li-ion Energy Production

Diesel Technology Forum: 57% of all commercial diesel trucks on the roads in US are near-zero emissions models

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JULY 11, 2023

According to DTF’s analysis of S&P Global Mobility TIPNet Vehicles in Operation Data as of December 2022: Diesel dominates the trucking sector: For the largest commercial trucks (Class 8) in operation that are 2010 or later model years, 95.4% For the entire (Class 3-8) commercial truck population of more than 15 million vehicles, 75.6%

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Diesel Commercial Emissions District of Columbia

NASA to fly payload with SpinLaunch’s mass accelerator to test low-cost, high-cadence kinetic launch system

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APRIL 7, 2022

Through this partnership, SpinLaunch will develop, integrate, and fly a NASA payload on the company’s Suborbital Accelerator Launch System to provide valuable information to NASA for potential future commercial launch opportunities. and managed at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California.

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Sionic Energy, formerly NOHMs, launches to commercialize next-generation silicon-anode Li-ion battery cells

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APRIL 21, 2021

Sionic’s silicon-anode battery cell designs incorporate the company’s complete technology innovations that deliver up to 50% greater energy density, 30% lower cost, and increased safety, and can be integrated into cylindrical, pouch, or prismatic cell formats in existing cell production supply chains and infrastructure. —Ed Williams.

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Li-ion Commercial Lithium Ion Energy

CALSTART / YUNEV report on N. American battery sourcing and supply for commercial vehicles

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DECEMBER 24, 2021

The zero-emission electric commercial vehicle market has a challenge at its core: battery sourcing and supply conditions. It’s critically important to understand the issues and complexities of the commercial vehicle industry’s battery needs and challenges.

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Hyundai Motor partners with regional firms to establish H2 fuel cell commercial vehicle ecosystem in China

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NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Hyundai Motor Company is spearheading the development of a hydrogen fuel cell commercial vehicle ecosystem in China with regional partners. Hyundai believes China has a massive potential for hydrogen powered commercial vehicles. —In Cheol Lee, Executive Vice President and Head of Commercial Vehicle Division at Hyundai Motor.

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Hyundai Commercial China Motor

Adamas: LFP market share drops to 6% in global passenger EV batteries in 2019; potential comeback in 2020 with cell-to-pack

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MARCH 6, 2020

In 2019, the market share of lithium-iron-phosphate (LFP) cathode chemistry fell to 6% in global passenger EV batteries by watt-hours deployed (i.e. Overall, the combined global market share of ternary cathodes (including NCM and nickel-cobalt-aluminum (NCA) varieties) in passenger EV batteries reached 90% in 2019, up from 83% in 2018.

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JERA and IHI to demo ammonia co-firing at a large-scale commercial coal-fired power plant

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MAY 30, 2021

This will be the world’s first demonstration project in which a large amount of ammonia will be co-fired in a large-scale commercial coal-fired power plant. Ammonia enables efficient, low-cost transport and storage of hydrogen. The project will run for approximately 4 years from June 2021 to March 2025.

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Coal Commercial Power Powered

ChargePoint acquires eBus and commercial vehicle management provider ViriCiti to accelerate fleet electrification

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AUGUST 12, 2021

ChargePoint Holdings, a leading electric vehicle (EV) charging network operating in North America and Europe, has acquired ViriCiti, a leading provider of electrification solutions for eBus and commercial fleets. The ViriCiti team, customer accounts and technology will become part of ChargePoint’s operations.

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Fleet Commercial North America San Francisco

Li-Metal and Blue Solutions sign joint development and commercialization agreement to advance development of next-generation batteries

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MARCH 1, 2022

a developer of lithium metal anode and lithium metal technologies, has signed a Joint Development and Commercialization Agreement (JD/CA) with Bolloré subsidiary Blue Solutions, the largest producer of solid-state lithium metal batteries. Li-Metal Corp., —Maciej Jastrzebski, Li-Metal co-founder and CEO.

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Molten Salt Commercial Batteries Battery

General Fusion and UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) announce collaborative agreement to advance commercial fusion energy

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OCTOBER 18, 2022

General Fusion and the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) kicked off projects to advance the commercialization of magnetized target fusion energy as part of a collaborative agreement. Ultimately, the company expects the projects will support its efforts to provide low-cost and low-carbon energy to the electricity grid.

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Fusion Energy Commercial 2002

ams introduces first inductive position sensor for high-speed motors for automotive and industrial markets

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DECEMBER 18, 2019

ams, a global supplier of high performance sensor solutions, introduced the AS5715 : the first inductive position sensor for high-speed, automotive and industrial electric motors to be available as a standard product on the open market. IHS forecasts the overall market for electric motors (including traction motors) to grow at 8.3%

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Motor Motors Motoring Industrial

Suzuki and Daihatsu join CJP to apply CASE technologies in mini-commercial vehicles in Japan

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JULY 22, 2021

have joined the Commercial Japan Partnership (CJP) commercial vehicle project ( earlier post ) to accelerate their carbon neutrality initiatives in minivehicles through the dissemination of CASE technologies (connected, autonomous, shared and electric) and services. Suzuki Motor Corporation and Daihatsu Motor Co.,

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IDTechEx calculates ~31 GWh of electric vehicle markets beyond cars in 2021

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OCTOBER 30, 2022

While electric cars will remain the largest electric vehicle market for the foreseeable future in terms of battery demand and market revenue generation, most transport sectors are facing a transition. The new regulations are driving interest in e-fuels, ammonia, and hydrogen as the industry scrambles to find multiple silver bullets.

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European HEFT project seeks lower-cost, more efficient and power-dense PM emotor for EVs

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APRIL 22, 2023

The innovations are intended to result in a high-efficient and low-cost solution that will be validated on 2 motor topologies, which will be compared to two main reference automotive IPM commercial motors in Europe (VW ID.3

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Power Powered Motor Motors

24M delivers first commercial scale, high energy density semi-solid NMC Li-ion cells; > 280 Wh/kg

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FEBRUARY 26, 2019

24M announced that it has developed and delivered commercially-viable, high energy density lithium-ion cells. These deliveries represent a significant milestone in the 24M mission to scale its unique, capital-efficient, low-cost approach to advanced lithium-ion battery manufacturing. —Naoki Ota, CTO of 24M.

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Li-ion Lithium Ion Commercial Energy

Edeniq and Global Bio-chem to develop and commercialize technology to convert corn stover to industrial sugars for fuels

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JULY 16, 2014

a cellulosic sugar producer ( earlier post ), has signed a letter of intent with China-based Global Bio-chem Technology Group Company Limited to develop and to commercialize processes to convert corn stover to industrial sugars for use in the production of chemicals, fuels, and other bio-based products. Edeniq, Inc.,

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DOE awards $22.1M to 10 nuclear technology projects including clean hydrogen production

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MAY 10, 2023

million to 10 industry-led projects to advance nuclear technologies, including two aimed at expanding clean hydrogen production with nuclear energy. Westinghouse Electric Company, Front-End Engineering Designs and Investigative Studies for Integrating Commercial Electrolysis Hydrogen Production with Selected Light-Water Reactors.

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Hydrogen Molten Salt Clean Cleaning

DOE awarding $1.6B to 11 battery materials separation and processing projects as part of $2.8B funding

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

This project will expand Anovion’s existing manufacturing capacity in Sanborn, NY—notably the only qualified US source of battery-grade synthetic graphite commercially shipping product today. The project will build a new plant in Chattanooga to produce 30,000 metric tons per year of graphite targeted at the electric vehicle industry.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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JULY 10, 2019

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $24 million in funding for 77 projects supported by the Office of Technology Transitions (OTT) Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF). Commercializing 3D Printable Feedstocks for the Advanced Manufacturing of Energy Products, $300,000 MilliporeSigma, St. Madison, Wis. Louis , Mo.

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Lithium-ion battery recycler ABTC expands operations and capacity with newly purchased facility

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MARCH 9, 2023

Most recently in November 2022, ABTC was selected for a competitive US DOE grant for a $20-million project to develop and commercialize a set of next-generation battery recycling technologies to even further enhance the recovery of recycled products and reduce the cost of operations.

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Lithium Ion Purchase Batteries Battery

Bramble Energy lead partner of Hydrogen Electric Integrated Drivetrain Initiative (HEIDI) project

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MAY 9, 2023

Bramble Energy , an innovator in fuel cell technology, has joined forces with Equipmake, Aeristech and the University of Bath to develop a new hydrogen double-deck bus integrating Bramble’s low-cost printed circuit board fuel cell (PCBFC) technology. million awarded by the government will be matched by industry to a total of £12.7

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Hydrogen Energy Low Cost Fuel

Linear Labs closes $4.5M seed round to fund commercialization of new electric motor technology

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MARCH 27, 2019

The Linear Labs motor is characterized by two main attributes: (1) very high torque starting at low speeds, and (2) high efficiency throughout the speed range. With 45 percent of worldwide electricity consumption passing through an electric motor, the number of industries this technology could impact are endless.

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Commercial Motor Motors Motoring

Topsoe to build world’s largest SOEC electrolyzer production facility; 500 MW scalable to 5 GW; focusing on Power-to-X

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MAY 24, 2022

Topsoe intends to construct the world’s largest and most advanced industrial-scale electrolyzer production plant. The Topsoe SOEC electrolyzer is a compact stack built primarily from abundant, low-cost ceramic materials enclosed within a metal housing. —Roeland Baan, CEO at Topsoe.

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Power Powered Production Denmark

Harvard team demonstrates new metal-free organic–inorganic aqueous flow battery; potential breakthrough for low-cost grid-scale storage

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JANUARY 11, 2014

But until now, flow batteries have relied on chemicals that are expensive or hard to maintain, driving up the cost of storing energy. Vanadium is used in the most commercially advanced flow-battery technology now in development, but it sets a rather high floor on the cost per kilowatt-hour at any scale. Commercialization.

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Low Cost Grid Batteries Battery

Berkeley Lab working with Alphabet Energy to develop a low-cost thermoelectric system

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APRIL 14, 2017

With a $2-million grant from the California Energy Commission (CEC), Berkeley Lab is partnering with Alphabet Energy to create a cost-effective thermoelectric waste heat recovery system to reduce both energy use in the industrial sector and electricity-related carbon emissions.

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Low Cost Energy Waste Gas-Electric

SwRI, UTSA researchers show biochar is low-cost, effective method to treat fracking water

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Flowback water treatment is a critical sustainability issue for the oil and gas industry. Our research demonstrates that this is a product that can reduce the environmental impact of drilling in a way that is safe and inexpensive to industry. —Zhigang Feng, USTA.

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Water Low Cost Oil-Sands San Antonio

Stanford researchers make ammonia from air and water microdroplets

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MAY 1, 2023

This one-step nitrogen-fixation strategy to produce ammonia is eco-friendly and low cost, which converts widely available starting materials into a value-added product. PNAS For more than a century, the world has relied on the Haber-Bosch process to yield ammonia in bulk; however, the industrial procedure is energy intensive.

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Water F-150 Low Cost Gas-Electric

ion Ventures and LiNa Energy conclude successful test of solid-state sodium-nickel battery platform

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MARCH 11, 2021

LiNa Energy is commercializing a safe, ~$50kWh (at mass manufacturing), cobalt-free battery platform that is suited to grid storage and the electrification of transportation. ion Ventures is leading the deployment of the battery in a real-world environment with a view to deploying it into the grid storage market in the future.

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Sodium Energy Batteries Battery

Gigastack renewable hydrogen from offshore wind project advances to next phase; 100MW electrolyzer system

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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

million for the next phase of Gigastack, a new renewable hydrogen project, as part of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Hydrogen Supply Competition. With industry and government working together, there has been a rapid deployment and a huge cost reduction. The UK has awarded £7.5 Earlier post.).

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Wind Hydrogen Renewable Low Cost

Johnson Matthey to exit battery materials business; increased commoditization, lower returns

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NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Johnson Matthey (JM) has been working to commercialize its eLNO range of high-nickel cathode materials ( earlier post ), principally for the automotive industry. The first facility in Poland is under construction and is to be completed in 2022, for commercial production in 2024. A second eLNO plant is also planned in Finland.

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Batteries Battery Poland Finland

Air Products to invest about $500M to build green hydrogen production facility in New York; 94MW hydropower already approved

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OCTOBER 10, 2022

The commercial operation of this facility is targeted to begin in 2026-2027. In support of this Air Products’ project, in July 2022, the New York Power Authority (NYPA) board approved 94 MW of low-cost St. Lawrence hydroelectric power to Air Products for its significant investment and the creation of 90 jobs in New York State.

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New York Hydrogen Production Green

Sakuu announces successful 3D printing of fully functional high-performance patterned batteries

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FEBRUARY 16, 2023

This marks a first-of-its-kind manufacturing achievement and is an important step towards Sakuu’s planned commercial-scale production of next-generation SwiftPrint batteries, including solid-state batteries, from its Kavian platform in gigafactories worldwide, the company said.

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Study shows a much cheaper catalyst can generate hydrogen in a commercial electrolyzer

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OCTOBER 15, 2019

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have shown for the first time that a low-cost, non-precious metal cobalt phosphide (CoP) catalyst catalyst can split water and generate hydrogen gas for hours on end in the harsh environment of a commercial device.

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Hydrogen Commercial Polymer Connecticut

Calysta Energy engineering organisms to convert methane to low-cost liquid hydrocarbons; BioGTL process

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OCTOBER 22, 2012

Start-up Calysta Energy plans to use methane as a feedstock for engineered organisms to produce liquid hydrocarbon fuels and high value chemicals that are cost-effective, scalable and reduce environmental impact. the largest US-based provider of synthetic genes for industrial and academic customers. Fermentation. Fermentation.

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Low Cost Convert Engine Energy

Rheinmetall launches first pilot project for curbstone chargers with the City of Cologne and TankE

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MAY 17, 2023

This imperative bumps up against the lack of space in urban areas for fast, flexibly scalable, low-cost installation of readily accessible public charging stations. Its market includes industrial and commercial customers, vehicle fleet operators, the real estate sector, as well as local governments and public utilities.

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Installation Low Cost Charging Fleet

Zeon Corporation invests in Mitra Chem; LFP cathode materials

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AUGUST 24, 2023

Mitra Chem is one of the select few companies in the United States aiming for the large-scale commercial production of LFP batteries, which it seeks to achieve using its proprietary machine learning platform to develop cathode materials for these batteries.

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NREL and Electric Hydrogen partner to develop high-performance electrolyzer components

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OCTOBER 9, 2021

million project will diagnose sources of degradation in commercial electrolysis cells and will validate advanced designs that use higher stack currents. Electric Hydrogen is engineering a high-performance product for water electrolysis—something that could scale up to significant commercial applications. The three-year, $3.6-million

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Hydrogen San Francisco Boston Water

Heliogen and Bloom Energy demonstrate production of low-cost green hydrogen; concentrated solar and high-temp electrolysis

Argonne-led team develops new low-cost cobalt-based catalyst for PEM electrolysis

USABC awards 24M $3.8M contract to support the development of low-cost, fast-charging Li-metal batteries

DOE awarding $46M to 8 companies to support commercial fusion energy development

Gevo develops process for low-cost renewable isoprene; building block for rubber and rubber products

Westinghouse, Bloom Energy to accelerate large-scale hydrogen production in nuclear industry; high-temperature integrated electrolysis

6K Energy to implement Forge Nano ALD equipment for commercial production of NMC 811 materials

Diesel Technology Forum: 57% of all commercial diesel trucks on the roads in US are near-zero emissions models

NASA to fly payload with SpinLaunch’s mass accelerator to test low-cost, high-cadence kinetic launch system

Sionic Energy, formerly NOHMs, launches to commercialize next-generation silicon-anode Li-ion battery cells

CALSTART / YUNEV report on N. American battery sourcing and supply for commercial vehicles

Hyundai Motor partners with regional firms to establish H2 fuel cell commercial vehicle ecosystem in China

Adamas: LFP market share drops to 6% in global passenger EV batteries in 2019; potential comeback in 2020 with cell-to-pack

JERA and IHI to demo ammonia co-firing at a large-scale commercial coal-fired power plant

ChargePoint acquires eBus and commercial vehicle management provider ViriCiti to accelerate fleet electrification

Li-Metal and Blue Solutions sign joint development and commercialization agreement to advance development of next-generation batteries

General Fusion and UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) announce collaborative agreement to advance commercial fusion energy

ams introduces first inductive position sensor for high-speed motors for automotive and industrial markets

Suzuki and Daihatsu join CJP to apply CASE technologies in mini-commercial vehicles in Japan

IDTechEx calculates ~31 GWh of electric vehicle markets beyond cars in 2021

European HEFT project seeks lower-cost, more efficient and power-dense PM emotor for EVs

24M delivers first commercial scale, high energy density semi-solid NMC Li-ion cells; > 280 Wh/kg

Edeniq and Global Bio-chem to develop and commercialize technology to convert corn stover to industrial sugars for fuels

DOE awards $22.1M to 10 nuclear technology projects including clean hydrogen production

DOE awarding $1.6B to 11 battery materials separation and processing projects as part of $2.8B funding

DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

Lithium-ion battery recycler ABTC expands operations and capacity with newly purchased facility

Bramble Energy lead partner of Hydrogen Electric Integrated Drivetrain Initiative (HEIDI) project

Linear Labs closes $4.5M seed round to fund commercialization of new electric motor technology

Topsoe to build world’s largest SOEC electrolyzer production facility; 500 MW scalable to 5 GW; focusing on Power-to-X

Harvard team demonstrates new metal-free organic–inorganic aqueous flow battery; potential breakthrough for low-cost grid-scale storage

Berkeley Lab working with Alphabet Energy to develop a low-cost thermoelectric system

SwRI, UTSA researchers show biochar is low-cost, effective method to treat fracking water

Stanford researchers make ammonia from air and water microdroplets

ion Ventures and LiNa Energy conclude successful test of solid-state sodium-nickel battery platform

Gigastack renewable hydrogen from offshore wind project advances to next phase; 100MW electrolyzer system

Johnson Matthey to exit battery materials business; increased commoditization, lower returns

Air Products to invest about $500M to build green hydrogen production facility in New York; 94MW hydropower already approved

Sakuu announces successful 3D printing of fully functional high-performance patterned batteries

Study shows a much cheaper catalyst can generate hydrogen in a commercial electrolyzer

Calysta Energy engineering organisms to convert methane to low-cost liquid hydrocarbons; BioGTL process

Rheinmetall launches first pilot project for curbstone chargers with the City of Cologne and TankE

Zeon Corporation invests in Mitra Chem; LFP cathode materials

NREL and Electric Hydrogen partner to develop high-performance electrolyzer components

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