EV Central

JANUARY 22, 2024

The global auto giant Stellantis has done a deal with a French battery-maker to secure fresh sodium-ion battery technology for its future EVs that could see electric cars finally undercut petrol cars on purchase price. Not that sodium-ion batteries are perfect, not just yet at least.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2010

GE Energy Storage Technologies, a unit of GE Transportation, introduced its Durathon sodium-metal halide battery ( earlier post ) for critical backup power. The battery can be used in uninterruptible power supply (UPS) applications for large data centers, hospitals, and other areas where a continuous supply of power is necessary.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2014

RAL researchers are proposing a new process for the decomposition of ammonia to release hydrogen that involves the stoichiometric decomposition and formation of sodium amide from Na metal. To date, very few candidates show potential beyond that of the seminal work on titanium-doped sodium alanate. Credit: ACS, David et al.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2012

GE’s ecomagination.com publication reports that GE engineers have begun testing a transit bus equipped with a new hybrid energy system integrating GE’s Durathon sodium-halide battery ( earlier post ), a lithium-ion battery and a hydrogen fuel cell. Current fuel-cell-powered buses must include batteries to provide power for acceleration.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2020

The feasibility study demonstrates that the First Cobalt Refinery project can become a viable, globally competitive player in the North American and European electric vehicle (EV) supply chain. This is an important milestone in our efforts to disrupt the existing cobalt supply chain. Sodium Treatment. 56 million.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2023

Despite extremely low LME nickel exchange inventories, which are currently at the 2007 level and amount to less than 5 days of global use only, the LME nickel contract was down by 30% since the beginning of the year. The forecast for nickel supply in 2023 is almost unchanged at 3.45 The deficit forecast for 2023 was revised to 0.2

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2022

Despite tight supply and high-point price fluctuation of lithium, the electric vehicle market is expected to maintain steady growth for the next few years. Contrary to anticipation, the global LIB supply chain is currently haunted by market fluctuations. Diversify supply sources. —Sun et al. —Sun et al.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

The project will convert spodumene concentrate sourced principally from Piedmont’s international project investments to expand significantly the US supply of lithium hydroxide, a key component in the manufacturing of EV batteries. Planned completion and start of production is in 2025.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2009

GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt shows a sodium-metal halide battery cell at the press conference announcing the battery plant. GE says the planned facility will produce approximately 10 million sodium-metal halide cells each year—equivalent to 900 MWh of energy storage, or enough to support 1,000 GE hybrid locomotives. Earlier post.).

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 8, 2024

About the investment in Rincell, Sandiip Bhammer said, “Our investment in Rincell reflects a commitment to pioneering technologies that are set to revolutionize global energy storage and supply.” Jignesh, Rincell’s CEO, has a distinguished track record in scaling businesses, high-volume manufacturing, and supply chain.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2017

The chemistries that are included in the report are all lithium ion (Li-ion) chemistries, flow battery chemistries, sodium-metal halide, and advanced lead-acid. The global market for advanced batteries for EVs and stationary ESSs through 3Q 2016 has already surpassed the total 2015 energy capacity of approximately 14.6

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2019

The global demand for lithium has dramatically increased during the past decade, mostly due to the rapid growth of lithium-ion battery markets from portable electronics to large scale electric vehicles and electric energy storage applications. Consequently, the stable supply of lithium resources has become an issue of increasing concern.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2010

Almost one-quarter of global electricity could be generated from nuclear power by 2050, making a major contribution to cutting greenhouse gas emissions, according to the Nuclear Energy Technology Roadmap, published by the International Energy Agency (IEA) and the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). Sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

BASF broke ground for its new production plant for sodium methylate in Guaratinguetá, Brazil, its largest site in South America. Sodium methylate is an efficient and reliable catalyst for the production of biodiesel. The plant will have a capacity of 60,000 metric tons per year and is primarily intended to supply the regional market.

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Push EVs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Contemporary Amperex Technology Thuringia GmbH (CATT), CATL’s first plant outside of China, has kicked off serial production of lithium-ion battery cells in December as scheduled, marking another milestone on CATL’s global journey. The affordable cobalt-free chemistry LFP, the high energy density chemistry NCM or maybe both?

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Baua Electric

MARCH 8, 2024

Concentration and price collapse For now, global economic weakness has depressed buying of new vehicles and led lithium prices to dive. Lithium prices have fallen by about 80% since touching a peak in November 2022 as a slowdown in EV sales exacerbated a supply glut.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2019

The team is tuning this process so that it can be used to recycle any type of cathode materials used in lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries. The center aims to help the United States grow a globally competitive recycling industry and reduce our reliance on foreign sources of battery materials.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2013

Benson from Stanford University and Stanford’s Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) has quantified the energetic costs of 7 different grid-scale energy storage technologies over time. A plot of ESOI for 7 potential grid-scale energy storage technologies. Credit: Barnhart and Benson, 2013. Click to enlarge. A new study by Charles J.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 28, 2024

Integration into global supply chains By creating a comprehensive component ecosystem within India, it will enhance India’s attractiveness as a manufacturing destination, leading to increased investments from both domestic and international players seeking to leverage India’s competitive advantages and market potential.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2016

The study comes against the backdrop of a more than doubling of global lithium prices over the last 6 months. Similarly, larger fluctuations in the global lithium price (from $0 to $25/kg from a baseline of $7.50 per kg of Li 2 CO 3 ) do not change the cost of lithium-ion cells by more than 10%. —Ciez and Whitacre.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2013

In a best-case scenario, the 2,000-square-mile Rock Springs Uplift could harbor up to 18 million tons of lithium, equivalent to about 720 years of current global lithium production. —the largest domestic producer of lithium—total 118,000 tons in a 20-square-mile area.

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Setec Powerr

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Others solid battery types are nickel-cadmium and sodium-sulphur, while zinc-air is emerging. Energy storage with pumped hydro systems based on large water reservoirs has been widely implemented over much of the past century to become the most common form of utility-scale storage globally. Batteries encompass a range of chemistries.

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EV Connect

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Global EV sales barely nudged 2 million units in 2020 , but could top 73 million by 2040. Better Batteries Since 2021, demand for the lithium that powers EV batteries has oustripped supply. IEA - Executive summary – Global EV Outlook 2023 – Analysis - IEA What Exactly Does Widespread EV Adoption Mean?

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2017

At the reveal, Mike Manley, Head of Jeep Brand, FCA Global, said that a full plug-in hybrid electric Jeep Wrangler will be available in 2020. liter I-4 engine’s fuel pump supplies the engine’s 2,900-psi high-pressure common-rail injection system. Earlier post. ). liter turbocharged inline 4-cylinder engine with eTorque technology.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2021

At full production, Jadar would position Rio Tinto as the largest source of lithium supply in Europe for at least the next 15 years. It could supply enough lithium to power over one million electric vehicles per year. In addition, Jadar will produce borates, which are used in solar panels and wind turbines. Assuming a 60kWh battery.].

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2014

The World Health Organization now estimates that in 2012 around 7 million people died—one in eight (12.5%) of total global deaths—as a result of air pollution exposure. Estimates of people’s exposure to outdoor air pollution in different parts of the world were formulated through a new global data mapping.

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

For EVs to deliver their full emission-reducing potential, the battery supply chain must be as clean as possible, and cathode active materials (CAM) are a key part of the sustainability equation. Umicore is offering our customers low-carbon options in our supply chain. That’s why carmakers like Volkswagen want to team up with us.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Our engineering team is employing all the knowledge we have demonstrated as a global leader in developing electronic and mechanical locking and limited slip differentials for larger rear and four-wheel-drive systems that require added performance and utility, and applying it to the unique requirements of more compact, front-wheel-drive vehicles.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

For EVs to deliver their full emission-reducing potential, the battery supply chain must be as clean as possible, and cathode active materials (CAM) are a key part of the sustainability equation. Umicore is offering our customers low-carbon options in our supply chain. That’s why carmakers like Volkswagen want to team up with us.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2023

lithium batteries without cobalt or nickel (LFP), or sodium-ion batteries) and fewer km driven by private car. This European demand represents up to 11% of the known global reserves for lithium and nickel, 10% for cobalt and 1% for manganese, according to the analysis. million tonnes (Mt) of lithium, 10.7 Mt of nickel, 0.8

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

Reliable, secure supplies of minerals and software are core elements for EVs, which represent a “shift from a fuel-intensive to a material-intensive energy system,” according to a. Ramping up the battery supply chain is the automakers’ current “ most challenging topic ,” according to VW Chief Financial Officer Arno Antlitz.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2010

Both of Cruze’s new engines are part of Chevrolet’s global range of small-displacement engines designed with fuel efficiency in mind, including technology such as full variable valve timing that optimizes performance and fuel economy. Sodium-filled exhaust valves are designed for the higher combustion temperatures of the turbo system.

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The company Graphex occupies a middle position in the supply chain—it buys raw graphite from mining companies, puts it through several purification and processing steps, then sells it to battery manufacturers. Graphex is a major global producer and distributor of graphite in its various forms. So there’s plenty of absorption there.

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Get Electric Vehicle

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Globally, we saw that EV demand grew even in car markets that were otherwise sluggish. The batteries that use sodium instead of the pricey and rare lithium are the ones that are the closest to being on the market. In the year 2022 overall sales of EVs in the United States reached 5.6% With the delivery of 10.5

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Cars That Think

JUNE 22, 2022

The global semiconductor shortage has made life tough for anyone using microcontrollers, with lead times now sometimes quoted in years. You can buy various used scintillator crystals on eBay fairly cheaply: I purchased a small sodium iodide crystal, 18 millimeters in diameter and 30 mm long, for about US $40.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2015

ARPA-E’s TERRA program uniquely integrates agriculture, information technology and engineering to address major global challenges in developing crops that are sustainable, affordable and yield abundant plant feedstocks for bioenergy. Transportation Energy Resources from Renewable Agriculture (TERRA). GENSETS Solid State Devices Awards.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Eagle Picher, in partnership with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will develop a new generation of high energy, low cost planar liquid sodium beta batteries for grid scale electrical power storage applications. Planar Na-beta Batteries for Renewable Integration and Grid Applications. DOE grant: $7,200,000). DOE grant: $4,462,162).

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