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

Green Car Congress

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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Aqua Metals recovers high-purity nickel from lithium battery black mass

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Aqua Metals’ Li AquaRefining technology recovers nickel and other valuable metals using electroplating in a closed-loop, eliminating the need for energy-intensive and wasteful chemical processes that increase the cost and the resulting pollution of recycling.

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Aqua Metals and 6K Energy partner to develop low-carbon CAM precursors for Li-ion batteries

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Aqua Metals is leading the development of the innovative conversion process, designed to replace chemical catalysts with clean electricity, and enables the sustainable production of cost-effective CAM precursors by eliminating embedded emissions, recurring expenses, and chemical waste byproducts.

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Aqua Metals successfully recovers cobalt and manganese in Li-ion recycling pilot

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The company expects that at current metals prices and projected processing costs at scale, that its Phase 1 recycling facility should generate positive cash flow.

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Retro Styling Kit Appears for the Toyota Tacoma

The Truth About Cars

Given the prices those things tend to command, especially in the SoCal market, it’s not entirely clear how much the kit itself costs. Those ’49 Ford faces on an MN12 Thunderbird are jarring to this author’s eye, as are the pre-squarebody Chevy Blazer fronts attached to modern Tahoe SUVs.

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Tax credits for Tesla Gigafactory will cost Nevada up to $1.1 billion

National Green Transportation

On Thursday, Tesla Motors made a long-awaited announcement, revealing that the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center had been chosen to host the Gigafactory. That factory is critical to Tesla's success, because it will produce battery packs in.'

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Redwood Materials shares plans to ramp copper foil production to 100 GWh

Teslarati

In a recent press release , Redwood noted that in a matter of months, its anode copper foil facility at the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center would be completed, and it could start producing and delivering recycled battery products to customers. These travels end up affecting the environmental impact and cost of battery production.

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