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ion Ventures and LiNa Energy conclude successful test of solid-state sodium-nickel battery platform

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LiNa’s senior team has accumulated decades of materials engineering and design for manufacturing experience in the fuel cell industry. The battery is constructed from easily sourced, low-cost materials and does not contain any cobalt or lithium.

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Transport for London launches first all-electric, long-range double-decker BYD buses into service

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Transport for London (TfL) has introduced the first long-range, battery-electric BYD Double-Decker buses into revenue service routes. TfL plans to charge the buses overnight using low-cost, off-peak electricity to provide additional cost savings. Route 98 was chosen given its status as a pollution hotspot in the city.

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Faraday Institution to award up to £55M to five consortia for energy storage research

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The Faraday Battery Challenge is part of the UK government’s Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF), overseen by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy to help transform the production of batteries for the future of electric vehicles (EVs) in the UK. Next generation lithium ion cathode materials.

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General Fusion and UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) announce collaborative agreement to advance commercial fusion energy

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Ultimately, the company expects the projects will support its efforts to provide low-cost and low-carbon energy to the electricity grid. General Fusion benefits from the UKAEA’s expertise in building polychromators, which are used in an industry-standard diagnostic called Thomson Scattering that measures electron temperature.

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MIT team outlines path to low-cost solar-to-fuels devices; the artificial leaf

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Considering recent cost reductions of Si solar cells, this paper offers a path to the construction of low cost solar-to-fuels devices. The predictive utility of the model is demonstrated in the case of water oxidation at the surface of a Si solar cell, using a cobalt–borate oxygen evolving catalyst. —Winkler et al.

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BYD had its slowest profit growth in two years in Q4

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auto industry BYD’s full-year 2023 net profit increased by 80.7 “The latest round of price cuts would inevitably result in a margin hit,” said John Zeng, London consulting firm GlobalData’s Head of China Market Forecasting (via Reuters ). The automaker posted 8.67 billion yuan (~1.2 percent to 180.04

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Johnson Matthey, Echion, Britishvolt and UCL to develop eLNO cathode, niobium anode demonstrator cells in CASCADE

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Johnson Matthey (JM), Echion Technologies , (Echion), Britishvolt (BV) and University College London (UCL) are grant recipients in the latest round (Round 4) of the Faraday Battery Challenge in the UK. Earlier post.). Finally, JM will develop strategies for recycling and understanding of the system’s carbon footprint.