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Li-Cycle receives conditional commitment for $375M loan from DOE ATVM program

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Li-Cycle Holdings Corp. The conditional commitment follows DOE technical, market, financial and legal due diligence and marks another significant milestone endorsing Li-Cycle’s development of the first commercial hydrometallurgical resource recovery facility in North America, located near Rochester, New York.

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Blackstone Battery production capacity to increase tenfold

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Blackstone Resources AG announced that its German subsidiary Blackstone Technology GmbH will increase its battery production capacity tenfold to 500 MWh per annum by 2022 for Li-ion batteries, which contain 3D-printed battery electrodes, at Blackstone’s Döbeln site in Saxony.

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Daimler takes minority stake in Sila Nanotechnologies; next-generation lithium-ion battery materials

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Founded in 2011, Sila Nano is a developer of new battery materials which outperform existing lithium-ion technologies. Sila Nano’s chemistry demonstrates a 20% improvement today, with the potential to reach 40% improvement over state-of-the-art traditional li-ion.

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Celgard files patent infringement lawsuit against LG Chem over Li-ion separator technology

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The patent in the lawsuit covers ceramic composite layer lithium-ion battery separators developed by Celgard for high-energy rechargeable lithium-ion batteries. Celgard has a long history of innovation in lithium-ion battery separators and is a proven world leader in this technology. Earlier post.).

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Axeon awarded funding to study recycling and re-use of EV batteries

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UK-based Li-ion battery system producer Axeon is one of six British companies to receive a share of nearly £500,000 (US$798,000) in funding from the Technology Strategy Board for feasibility studies into the recycling and re-use of batteries for hybrid and electric vehicles.

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Corsa Ginetta-Zytek to Race as Hybrid at Lime Rock

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The car is homologated—fully legal to race as a hybrid—and is no longer running as a conventional race car come Lime Rock. Zytek supplied the electric motor; Continental supplied both the Li-ion pack and the power electronics. This has been a long time coming.

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SAE International to Host Vehicle Battery Summit in Shanghai

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The Summit is designed to provide corporate-level engineering and business decision makers with an assessment of current and near term Li-ion battery systems alternatives and capabilities; as well as critical marketplace and supply chain information. More details will be published on the event website as they become available.