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Redwood Materials to build next Li-ion battery recycling and remanufacturing center in South Carolina

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Similar to the Nevada operations, Redwood’s South Carolina operations will be 100% electric and won’t use any fossil fuel. Map via Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Redwood plans to break ground on our Carolina Campus in Q1 2023 and have the first recycling process running by the end of 2023.

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Panasonic breaks ground on new 30 GWh gigafactory in Kansas; focus on 2170 cylindrical cells

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a Panasonic Group company, began construction on a new lithium-ion battery manufacturing facility in De Soto, KS, following the approval by Panasonic Holdings Corporation Board of Directors. Facility construction is focused on rapidly ramping up manufacture of 2170 cylindrical Li-ion batteries to meet surging domestic EV battery demand.

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BASF and Nanotech Energy partner to produce Li-ion batteries in N America with locally recycled content and low CO2 footprint

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BASF and Nanotech Energy , a developer and manufacturer of graphene-based energy storage products, have agreed to partner to reduce the CO 2 footprint of Nanotech’s lithium-ion batteries for the North American market.

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Panasonic Energy’s New EV Battery Facility in Kansas will initially produce 30 GWh

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a Panasonic Group company, will begin construction this month of its new facility that will produce cylindrical Li-ion batteries for electric vehicles. Panasonic Energy Co., The facility in De Soto, Kansas will be the Company’s second EV battery facility in the U.S.,

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Tesla and Panasonic begin production of Li-ion cells at Gigafactory

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Tesla and Panasonic have begun mass production of high-performance cylindrical “2170” (21mm diameter, 70mm height) lithium-ion battery cells at the Gigafactory in Nevada. By 2018, the Gigafactory will produce 35 GWh/year of lithium-ion battery cells, nearly as much as the rest of the entire world’s battery production combined.

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Tesla launches line of Li-ion stationary storage systems for homes and businesses: POWERWALL and POWERPACK

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The sleek, sculpture-like Li-ion packs come in 7 kWh ($3,000) and 10 kWh ($3,500) configurations. a plans to transition production to the GigaFactory in Nevada next year, resulting in a higher ramp. Delivery is projected for sometime later this summer (3-4 months from now.). up to 90 kWh of storage. —Elon Musk.

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DOE awarding $1.6B to 11 battery materials separation and processing projects as part of $2.8B funding

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Anovion, with its partners, collaborators and stakeholders, will build 35,000 tons per annum of new synthetic graphite anode material capacity for lithium-ion batteries used in electric vehicles and critical energy storage applications. Li 2 O spodumene concentrate. Materials Separation & Processing (Cathode Minerals).

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