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The improvements to both the chemistry and engineering of lithium-ion batteries has made it possible to move megawatt-level power on the back of a semi truck. The improvements to the lithium-ion batteries are due in part to using a nickel cobalt aluminum oxide (NCA) version with aluminum as the cathode.
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Empire State Development (ESD) announced that Canada-based Li-Cycle Corporation will establish its first US-based Li-ion battery recycling facility in New York State. The technology can do so with a recovery rate of 80 – 100% of all materials. The technology can do so with a recovery rate of 80 – 100% of all materials.
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the key to addressing the low-temperature capacity loss lies in adjusting the surface electron configurations of the carbon anode to reinforce the coordinate interaction between the solvated Li + and adsorption sites for Li + desolvation and reduce the activation energy of the charge-transfer process. . … —Lu et al.
Soteria Battery Innovation Group (BIG) has exclusively licensed and optioned a technology developed by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory designed to eliminate thermal runaway in lithium ion batteries due to mechanical damage. The technology complements Soteria’s existing battery safety technology.
one of the world’s leading independent global bus manufacturers, announced the successful completion of a battery recycling pilot with North America’s largest lithium-ion battery recycler, Li- Cycle Corporation. The pilot is Li-Cycle’s first program in the heavy duty vehicle space. subsidiaries of NFI Group Inc., Earlier post.).
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Researchers at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) have developed a superionic halogen-rich Li-argyrodite (HRLA) that works well as a promising solid electrolyte (Li 5.5 This HRLA exhibits the highest Li-ion conductivity among Li-argyrodites (10.2 solid electrolyte at 25 °C.
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Li-Cycle Corp. , a North-America-based lithium-ion battery resource recovery company, recently completed its first shipment of commercially recycled battery material, containing energy metals concentrate. Li-Cycle expects to be fully operational at the facility later this year. Earlier post.)
A team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology, led by Matthew McDowell, associate professor in the George W. However, such electrode materials show limited reversibility in Li-ion batteries with standard non-aqueous liquid electrolyte solutions. When a 30-μm-thick Al 94.5 mA cm −2 ). —Liu et al.
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Canadian battery material specialist Hydro-Québec is partnering with Mercedes-Benz as part of the automaker’s research and development activities on future EV technology. Solid-state batteries are supposed to be a next important technology leap for e-mobility, meaning an alternative to today’s li-ion battery systems.
New battery company SVOLT Energy Technology Co. Ltd, introduced its cobalt-free lithium-ion battery cell (NMx) and four-element lithium-ion battery cell (NCMA). million) will be invested to build a 24GWh battery factory, a factory for cathode materials and a battery technology center. SVOLT product roadmap.
OXIS has been collaborating with European manufacturers on the development of solid-state Li-S technology for almost 4 years. As a result of a technological breakthrough three years ago, OXIS has filed 9 new families of patents to protect both Quasi and Solid-State Intellectual Property Rights. Commissioning is expected in 2023.
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.).
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Researchers at the University of Surrey (UK) are to begin work on a new lithium-ion battery technology that is capable of capturing CO 2 emissions, following a £243,689 award from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). However, the development of Li-CO 2 batteries is still in its infancy stage.
Researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia have developed a continuous electrically-driven membrane process which successfully enriches lithium from seawater samples of the Red Sea by 43,000 times (i.e., ppm) with a nominal Li/Mg selectivity >45 million. —Li et al. to 9013.43
While the lithium-ion battery is dominant in battery-electric vehicles, NiMH batteries are still the most common in full hybrid vehicles (HEVs), according to a new report—“ Full Hybrid Electric Vehicle Markets 2021-2041 ”—from IDTechEx. It is also much more technologically mature and lower cost than Li-ion.
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A research team at Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute (KERI) has developed a high-capacity Li-metal battery with improved rate performance and stability using a one-dimensional Li-confinable porous hollow carbon host. However, these hosts suffer from unwanted Li growth on their surface (i.e., Kang et al.
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