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The EV Transition Explained: Battery Challenges

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For example, output from the only nickel mine in the US, the Eagle mine in Minnesota, is sent to Canada for smelting. lithium-iron phosphate , lithium-ion phosphate , lithium-sulfur , lithium-metal , and sodium-ion among many others , not to mention solid-state batteries , as a way to alleviate some of the material supply and cost problems.

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ARPA-E Awards $151M to 37 Projects for Transformative Energy Research

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Waste Heat Capture (2 projects). Eagle Picher, in partnership with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will develop a new generation of high energy, low cost planar liquid sodium beta batteries for grid scale electrical power storage applications. The University of Minnesota and BioCee, Inc. WASTE HEAT CAPTURE.

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