Industrial, Li-ion and Missouri

EaglePicher breaks ground on Li-ion Center of Excellence in Missouri

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MARCH 20, 2015

EaglePicher Technologies, LLC broke ground on its new Lithium Ion Center of Excellence. The 100,000-plus square-foot facility will be built adjacent to its current Li-ion facility at the Crossroads Industrial Park in Joplin, Missouri and will expand the EaglePicher cell and battery portfolio.

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Li-ion Missouri Lithium Ion 2015

DOD awards EaglePicher $22M under DPA Title III to expand Li-ion production capabilities; 250 Wh/kg

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NOVEMBER 7, 2014

The US Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded EaglePicher $22 million in funding under the Defense Production Act Title III Program ( DPA Title III ) for Phase II of the Lithium-Ion Battery for Military Applications (LIMA) project. Currently, the US government relies on lithium-ion cells that are produced outside the US.

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Li-ion Lithium Ion Production Missouri

Dow Chemical exits Dow Kokam Li-ion battery venture; sells interest to MBP Investors

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NOVEMBER 22, 2013

The transaction makes MBP the majority owner of Dow Kokam, which includes the Midland Battery Park in Michigan and the Lee’s Summit facility in Missouri. Dow Kokam’s Midland Battery Park includes one of the highest capacity, large format lithium-ion battery manufacturing plants in the world.

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Li-ion Lithium Ion Batteries Battery

National Alliance for Advanced Transportation Batteries Opts for Kentucky Site for Li-ion Plant

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APRIL 14, 2009

The National Alliance for Advanced Transportation Batteries (NAATBatt) ( earlier post ) has selected a site in Hardin County, Kentucky to build a more than $600-million automotive lithium-ion battery plant. Kentucky was selected over Texas, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, New York, Pennsylvania and South Carolina.

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Li-ion Kentucky Transportation Lithium Ion

Li-ion Polymer Battery Maker Kokam America Is Partner of Choice for Smith Electric Vehicles US; Kokam JV With Dow Targeted at Scaling Up Production

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APRIL 17, 2009

When Smith Electric Vehicles US Corp (SEV-US) announced on 27 March its selection of Kansas City, Missouri as the site for its US assembly plant for electric commercial vehicles ( earlier post ), SEV-US CEO Bryan Hansel named Kokam America (also based in Missouri) as the electric vehicle company’s battery “ partner of choice. ”

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Li-ion Polymer America Missouri

New A123 Systems LLC emerges

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JANUARY 30, 2013

Li-ion battery maker A123 Systems LLC, a newly formed, wholly owned subsidiary of Wanxiang America Corporation, has acquired substantially all of the non-government business assets of bankrupt A123 Systems, Inc. A123’s joint venture with Shanghai Automotive. A123’s joint venture with Shanghai Automotive. Lead-Acid Replacement.

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Lead Acid Ni-Li Li-ion Grid

A123 Systems reaches agreement to sell substantially all assets to Wanxiang for $256.6M

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DECEMBER 9, 2012

Wanxiang outbid a joint Johnson Controls and NEC offer and a bid from Siemens in an auction held on 6 December for the assets of the bankrupt Li-ion battery maker. based provider of energy-enabled system solutions and energy storage products for commercial, industrial and government agency customers.

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Ni-Li Energy Storage Li-ion Purchase

Dow and HPL Sign Li-ion Technology Transfer Agreement; Dow Kokam JV Acquires Assets of Kokam America

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NOVEMBER 12, 2009

HPL was spun out from Professor Graetzel’s laboratory at the EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland) in 2003 and is focused on the development of nano-structured metal oxide energy storage materials and novel electrolytes for use in next generation lithium ion batteries. in South Korea.

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Li-ion America Lithium Ion Polymer

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

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OCTOBER 28, 2022

The University of Texas at Arlington will develop acoustic stimulation and electrolytic proton production to produce lithium (Li) and nickel (Ni) from CO 2 -reactive minerals and rocks that contain calcium (Ca) and magnesium (Mg), while sequestering CO 2 in the form of carbonate solids. Columbia University.

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Supplies Ni-Li Carbon Universal

EcoCAR Teams Roll Out Architectures; Plug-in Li-ion Packs and Renewable Energy Common Attributes

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FEBRUARY 4, 2009

All of the designs use lithium-ion battery technology. Six of the seventeen EcoCAR teams, including Georgia Tech, Howard University, Michigan Tech University, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Texas Tech, and West Virginia University, have designed Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles which are constructed with a large lithium-ion battery.

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Li-ion Plug-in Plug Renewable

ARPA-E Selects 37 Projects for $106M in Funding in Second Round; Electrofuels, Better Batteries and Carbon Capture

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APRIL 30, 2010

Electrofuels approaches will use organisms able to extract energy from other sources, such as solar-derived electricity or hydrogen or earth-abundant metal ions. Li-S Battery : Development of High Energy Li-S Cells for Electric Vehicles. This process is less than 1% efficient at converting sunlight to stored chemical energy.

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Carbon Batteries Battery Li-ion

CMU-led team develops method of aerosol jet 3D printing battery electrode materials for exceptionally high capacity batteries

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JULY 31, 2018

3-D printing this microlattice structure, the researchers show in a paper published in the journal Additive Manufacturing , vastly improves the capacity and charge-discharge rates for lithium-ion batteries. SEM images of 3D printed electrodes for Li-ion batteries used for electrochemical cycling in the researchers’ study.

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Li-ion Batteries Battery Lithium Ion

Smith Electric Vehicles secures new strategic investor and battery supplier; production to resume in Kansas City in mid-2014

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MAY 13, 2014

Smith Electric will resume production in its Kansas City, Missouri, facility in mid-summer 2014. Sinopoly has Li-ion battery production bases in Jilin and Tianjin. Sinopoly’s investment in Smith represents an important and strategic advance step in establishing Sinopoly as a significant integrated player in the EV industry.

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Kansas City Kansas 2014 Li-ion

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EaglePicher breaks ground on Li-ion Center of Excellence in Missouri

DOD awards EaglePicher $22M under DPA Title III to expand Li-ion production capabilities; 250 Wh/kg

Dow Chemical exits Dow Kokam Li-ion battery venture; sells interest to MBP Investors

National Alliance for Advanced Transportation Batteries Opts for Kentucky Site for Li-ion Plant

Li-ion Polymer Battery Maker Kokam America Is Partner of Choice for Smith Electric Vehicles US; Kokam JV With Dow Targeted at Scaling Up Production

New A123 Systems LLC emerges

A123 Systems reaches agreement to sell substantially all assets to Wanxiang for $256.6M

Dow and HPL Sign Li-ion Technology Transfer Agreement; Dow Kokam JV Acquires Assets of Kokam America

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

EcoCAR Teams Roll Out Architectures; Plug-in Li-ion Packs and Renewable Energy Common Attributes

ARPA-E Selects 37 Projects for $106M in Funding in Second Round; Electrofuels, Better Batteries and Carbon Capture

CMU-led team develops method of aerosol jet 3D printing battery electrode materials for exceptionally high capacity batteries

Smith Electric Vehicles secures new strategic investor and battery supplier; production to resume in Kansas City in mid-2014

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