Green Car Congress
MAY 17, 2023
Ionic Mineral Technologies, a developer of advanced silicon anode battery materials, launched its Generation 1 Ionisil nano-silicon product for Li-ion cell manufacturers. Earlier post.) This technology can increase the capacity at the anode level by >100% compared to graphite batteries.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 12, 2021
Zenlabs Energy, an advanced lithium-ion cell company, announced that Idaho National Laboratory (INL) has successfully tested more than 1,000 charge-discharge cycles from its high-energy Silicon anode pouch cells. For the last 30 years, the lithium-ion industry has used graphite as the preferred anode material. Earlier post.).
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
This combined system is expected to deliver more than 250,000 miles of lifetime service. Scaling 100x from a 2 Ah pouch cell to a 240 Ah prismatic in less than 12 months is a testament to the simplicity of the design and ability to use conventional Li-ion production equipment. —Steven Kaye, ONE Chief Technical Officer.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 18, 2022
Currently, anode and cathode components are not produced in North America, and battery cell manufacturers have to source them via a 50,000+ mile global supply chain. As a result, US battery manufacturers will spend more than $150 billion overseas on these components by 2030, Redwood says.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
Leading lead battery recycler Ecobat is building its third lithium-ion battery recycling facility and its first in North America. The new facility in Casa Grande, Arizona will initially produce 10,000 estimated tons of recycled material per year, with plans to expand capacity to satisfy the increasing need to recycle lithium-ion batteries.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 12, 2012
According to a recent report examining batteries for electric vehicles from Pike Research, as manufacturing efficiencies improve and access to lithium expands, the installed cost of Li-ion batteries will fall by more than one-third by the end of 2017. global Li-ion battery production by the turn of the decade, Pike suggests.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 22, 2016
LG Chem announced that it won a contract to supply the 16 kWh Li-ion battery pack and controls for the new Chrysler Pacifica plug-in hybrid minivan introduced earlier this year at the Detroit auto show. Chrysler estimates that the Pacifica Hybrid will deliver an all-electric range of 30 miles. Earlier post.).
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