Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2022

E) will award $39 million in funding to 16 projects across 12 states to develop market-ready technologies that will increase domestic supplies of critical elements required for the clean energy transition. University of Nevada, Reno. Hydrometallurgical Production of Domestic Metals for Energy Transition ($2,949,395).

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Green Car Congress

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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APRIL 9, 2024

Aqua Metals has developed a process for recycling lithium-ion batteries that it says is much cleaner, more efficient and more cost-effective than current methods (see our recent in-depth interview with company execs ). At full scale, Aqua will provide 30% of the nickel and lithium carbonate needed at 6K’s PlusCAM facility.

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Teslarati

MARCH 25, 2024

Tesla will use idle equipment from Chinese supplier CATL at Gigafactory Nevada. He confirmed that CATL will supply battery machinery to Tesla Giga Nevada last month. There’s always room for cost reduction depending on what the US$25,000 car’s aim is. Tesla is constantly reducing costs to make its vehicles more affordable.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2018

Ryze Renewables announced that construction is underway for two renewable diesel production facilities in Nevada. This increases yield, lowers operating costs, and allows for feedstock flexibility. Ryze Renewables has partnered with Phillips 66, an energy manufacturing and logistics company.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

equity stake in McEwen Copper, a subsidiary of Canadian mining company McEwen Mining, which owns the Los Azules project in Argentina and the Elder Creek project in Nevada. which holds 100% interests in the Los Azules project in Argentina and in the Elder Creek exploration property in Nevada. The company is acquiring a 14.2%

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2022

billion will go to 11 projects in the materials separation and processing segment of the supply chain. Anovion , Scaling the Domestic, US Owned and Operated Anode Supply Chain for Synthetic Graphite, $117,000,000. It will produce enough material to supply more than 250,000 electric vehicles annually. Of that, $1.6

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2015

While other commodities are floundering or completely collapsing in this market, lithium—the critical mineral in the emerging battery gigafactory war—is poised to explode, and going forward Nevada is emerging as the front line in this pending American lithium boom. Albemarle Corp.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 31, 2024

Tesla is reportedly poised to expand its battery production activities in Nevada. Citing individuals reportedly familiar with the matter, Bloomberg News noted that Tesla is looking to establish the facility in Sparks, Nevada. Instead, the EV maker is “very appreciative of our suppliers,” one of which is CATL.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Redwood Materials will supply Panasonic with recycled battery cathode material starting in 2025, shipping remanufactured components to the battery maker’s recently-announced Kansas factory. The post Redwood Materials to supply Panasonic with recycled cathode materials appeared first on TESLARATI. battery cell manufacturing.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 13, 2023

Department of Energy has announced that it will loan $700 million to mining company Ioneer to develop lithium reserves found in Nevada. Now, a new source of lithium, found within the state of Nevada, will be developed by the mining company Ioneer, with help from a $700 million loan from the Department of Energy. As the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2023

General Motors and Lithium Americas will jointly invest to develop the Thacker Pass mine in Nevada, which is the largest known source of lithium in the United States and the third-largest in the world. This relationship underscores our commitment to develop a sustainable domestic lithium supply chain for electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) recognized the nation’s first commercial enhanced geothermal system (EGS) project to supply electricity to the grid. Based in Churchill County, Nevada, Ormat Technologies’ Desert Peak 2 EGS project has increased power output of its nearby operating geothermal field by nearly 38%, providing an additional 1.7

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2022

Australia-based ioneer, an emerging lithium–boron supplier, signed a binding offtake supply agreement with the Prime Planet Energy & Solutions (PPES) joint venture between Toyota Motor Corporation and Panasonic Corporation, in which ioneer will supply PPES with lithium carbonate from its Rhyolite Ridge Lithium-Boron Project in Nevada.

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Teslarati

MARCH 30, 2022

American electric vehicle maker Tesla has shown some remarkable foresight as it reportedly secured an undisclosed nickel supply deal with Brazilian mining firm Vale. Even before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, nickel was already experiencing a rise in cost. Don’t hesitate to contact us with news tips.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 12, 2022

During a recent interview with CNN anchor Julia Chatterley, Tesla co-founder and Redwood Materials CEO JB Straubel shared his thoughts about what he estimates is an upcoming electric vehicle battery supply crisis, his thoughts on the adoption of recycled batteries, and his long tenure with the Elon Musk-led EV maker.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The US Environmental Protection Agency’s SmartWay Excellence Awards have recognized 43 truck carriers and one barge carrier as industry leaders in supply chain environmental and energy efficiency. EPA announced the awardees at the 2016 American Trucking Association’s Annual Management Conference & Exhibition in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Together, these components amount to nearly 80% of the materials cost of a lithium-ion battery. Redwood Materials’ Nevada operation currently recycles end-of-life batteries from consumer electronics such as cell phone batteries, laptop computers, power tools, and other electronic waste.

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Teslarati

MARCH 22, 2022

For years, Tesla has invested heavily in its supply chain and battery strategy. Norway-based energy analytics firm Rystad Energy estimated that demand would surpass nickel supply around 2024, and by 2026, there might be a shortage of the material. The country also holds 10% of the world’s overall nickel supply.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2021

We had been searching for the lowest-cost technology to produce rare earth elements and strategically important elements like lithium. We think this technology will get us over the cost hurdle. And this will take out more than half the cost. We need another way to do it. For many of these, the US has little to no production.

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Teslarati

MARCH 26, 2024

Jean-Philippe Bahuaud, Chief Executive of Renault’s environmental division, ‘The Future is Neutral’ (TFIN), says the automaker is seeking to build a “closed-loop,” industrial-scale EV battery supply chain —which would make the company the first to do so in Europe. company Redwood Materials.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2013

A new Energy Department study conducted by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) indicates that by 2025 wind and solar power electricity generation could become cost-competitive without federal subsidies, if new renewable energy development occurs in the most productive locations. mmBtu and $8.43/mmBtu. Source: Hurlbut et al.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2023

pCAM is a specifically engineered combination of processed raw materials necessary to produce CAM, a key battery material representing about 40% of the cost of a battery cell. This announcement is the latest in a series of actions GM has taken to build a more secure EV supply chain. Site selection will be announced later.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Fulcrum completed the construction of the first commercial-scale MSW-based biofuels refinery in Nevada in July 2021. Fulcrum’s process combines gasification technology with a Fischer-Tropsch (FT) fuel process for the efficient, low-cost production of renewable transportation fuels.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2012

A newly released study—authorized by Congress and jointly funded and prepared by the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Reclamation and the seven Colorado River Basin states— projects water supply and demand imbalances throughout the Colorado River Basin and adjacent areas over the next 50 years.

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Teslarati

MAY 9, 2022

“Our goal is to develop a safe recycling process with high recovery rates, low costs and low environmental impact. Tesla installed the first phase of its cell recycling facility in Giga Nevada two years ago. By the end of 2021, Gigafactory Nevada reached a production rate of over 50 tons of recycled material per week.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 26, 2024

CATL chairman Robin Zeng mentioned this project in an interview with Bloomberg in Hong Kong on Monday, in which he also confirmed that CATL is supplying equipment for Tesla’s Nevada battery factory. Tesla already uses CATL LFP cells, which cost less to make in money and carbon footprint, in the Model 3 in the U.S.,

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Emerging lithium-boron producer Ioneer announced that its Rhyolite Ridge Lithium-Boron Project in Esmeralda County, Nevada ( earlier post ) has advanced into the final stage of federal permitting with the decision by the US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to publish a Notice of Intent (NOI) in the Federal Register.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 18, 2024

Graphjet plans to build a facility in Nevada and is talking to the US Department of Energy and the US Department of Defense. Graphjet says its process cuts the carbon footprint by 83% while reducing costs by 80%. Graphjet plans to build a facility in Nevada and is talking to the US Department of Energy and the US Department of Defense.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 15, 2024

billion to build Nevada’s Thacker Pass lithium project, one of Washington’s largest investments to date in the mining industry as part of a push to boost domestic production of critical minerals for the energy transition. The mine’s cost has increased from a previous estimate of USD 2.27 to close Thursday at USD 5.99.

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Teslarati

JULY 28, 2021

Redwood’s ultimate goal is to create a “closed-loop supply chain for electric vehicles and energy products, making them truly sustainable and continuing to drive down the costs for batteries,” the company said. Credit: Redwood Materials. Rowe Price Growth Stock Fund portfolio manager Joe Fath said. “In

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Teslarati

APRIL 10, 2022

He hinted that Tesla might mine and refine Lithium directly if costs do not improve. Tesla might really have to get into the mining & refining directly at scale, unless costs improve,” Musk tweeted. Tesla might actually have to get into the mining & refining directly at scale, unless costs improve.

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JANUARY 20, 2022

The Nevada site would not only be for copper foil production, however, as it would also host the company’s hydrometallurgy recycling operations. These travels end up affecting the environmental impact and cost of battery production. Tesla Giga Nevada to start using Redwood’s recycled battery components.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2022

That’s very close to the widely targeted $100 per kWh level, which is estimated to be the point where EVs could become fully competitive with ICE cars in terms of cost. Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, a company that tracks the worldwide battery supply chain, noted that lower costs helped boost EV sales by 112% in 2021 to over 6.3

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The two companies are looking to utilize their new partnership to develop a robust and sustainable battery supply chain in the United States, a goal emphasized by the Biden administration. Of course, Straubel’s previous employer, Tesla, is also a client of Redwood Materials, with the startup recycling scrap from Gigafactory Nevada. .

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Teslarati

JUNE 24, 2021

Tesla and Panasonic’s joint operations in Gigafactory Nevada have had their own fair share of challenges, with the automaker putting pressure on its Japanese partner to produce more batteries for its vehicles. It may also supply the batteries to both Tesla and other automakers. .

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Tesla Giga Nevada will source copper foil from Redwood Materials this year. However, Germany has high energy costs that could significantly increase the plant’s electricity costs. Recycling battery materials is energy-intensive, so the cost of electricity would be a big factor in Redwood Materials’ final decision.

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