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EV Guru: Sodium-Ion Batteries are Coming Sooner Than You think!

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Demand for the element is so great for applications including electric vehicles, portable electronic devices, and stationary energy units, that lithium mining companies are struggling to keep up. In addition, about 90% of the world’s supply of lithium is controlled by Chinese companies. Also sodium is universally available.

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Skyonic awards $117M construction contract to Toyo-Thai-USA for commercial-scale carbon capture and utilization plant

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Toyo-Thai Corporation Public Company Limited (TTCL) is providing engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services to the project. The captured pollutants are mineralized into solid products, including sodium bicarbonate, which are stored, transported and sold as safe, stable solids.

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NYSERDA awards $2M to 8 projects to develop advanced energy storage technologies

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The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) has awarded $250,000 to each of eight companies and research centers to develop working prototypes for a wide range of energy-storage technologies. The companies and research centers receiving funding include: Custom Electronics Inc. Earlier post.)

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What are the types of batteries used in EV? | EV Basics

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As the core of electric vehicles, batteries have naturally become the focus of research and development by global car companies. 3) Sodium-sulfur battery: The specific energy of the sodium-sulfur battery is high, its theoretical specific energy is 760W.h/kg, It can meet the power requirements of electric vehicles. (2)

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

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Global demand for critical minerals needed to decarbonize the nation’s economy is expected to increase by 400-600% over the next several decades and the US is increasingly dependent on foreign sources, some adversarial, for many of the processed versions of these minerals. An estimated 2.2 2,200,000).

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Top 5 Promising Technological Developments In The Electric Vehicle Sector

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The company could develop a reliable and high-performance powertrain. Now being witnessed the revolution and inspired by the success companies all around the world is investing boatload of money and resources into the development of new technologies in the electric vehicle sector. Improvement in charging technology. Solar cars.

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Rio Tinto commits $2.4B for Jadar lithium project; planning 58,000 tons/year lithium carbonate by 2029

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The Jadar project would support the evolution of Rio Tinto—one of the world’s largest miners—into a chemical producer to make battery-grade lithium carbonate, a critical mineral used in large-scale batteries for electric vehicles and storing renewable energy. —Rio Tinto Chief Executive Jakob Stausholm.

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