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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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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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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.

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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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UK publishes EV smart charging plan

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Today’s plan sets out how we will work with Ofgem and industry to kickstart the market for smart charging, which we are backing up with £16 million in innovation funding. This will let people take control of their energy usage, in the most convenient and low-cost way. —Energy and Climate Minister Graham Stuart.

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GKN to supply 500 electric flywheel hybrid drive systems to Go-Ahead Group for buses

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Key benefits of low mass, compact packaging, electric only coupling to vehicle drive, and low cost point make the Mk4 eFES system a turn-key retro-fit solution. Following successful trials on buses in London, Go-Ahead intends to utilize the technology in cities it serves across the UK, initially in London and Oxford.

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