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UC Irvine team creates long-lasting, cobalt-free, low-nickel lithium-ion batteries

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In a discovery that could reduce or even eliminate the use of cobalt—which is often mined using child labor—in the batteries that power electric cars and other products, scientists at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) have developed a long-lasting alternative made with nickel.

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BMW Group creates closed recycling loop for high-voltage batteries in China

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The BMW Brilliance Automotive joint venture (BBA) has established a closed loop for reuse of the raw materials nickel, lithium and cobalt from high-voltage batteries that are no longer suitable for use in electric vehicles. Already today, the BMW Group uses secondary nickel in the high-voltage batteries of the BMW iX.

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Benchmark launches Li-ion Battery Raw Material Price Index

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The index covers the following battery chemistries: NCM MID-NICKEL. Lithium hydroxide (CIF Asia). Nickel sulfate (CIF Asia). NCM HIGH-NICKEL. Lithium hydroxide (CIF Asia). Nickel sulfate (CIF Asia). Battery grade lithium carbonate (EXW China). Cobalt hydroxide (CIF Asia). Manganese sulfate.

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POSCO Chemical, GM in large-scale CAM supply agreement to support EV growth

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CAM is a key battery material consisting of components like processed nickel, lithium and other materials representing about 40% of the cost of a battery cell. POSCO Chemical and General Motors Co.

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Canada’s Budget 2022 calls for C$3.8B to launch Critical Minerals Strategy

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The introduction of a new 30% Critical Mineral Exploration Tax Credit for specified mineral exploration expenses incurred in Canada and renounced to flow-through share investors.

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Ultium battery cells from GM electric vehicles have an official recycler: Canada's Li-Cycle

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Li-Cycle will recycle "up to 100% of the material scrap from battery-cell manufacturing," including cobalt, nickel, lithium, graphite, copper.

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Groundbreaking for Mercedes-Benz battery recycling factory in Kuppenheim, Germany

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The Primobius’ process flowsheet targets the recovery of valuable materials from consumer electronic batteries (devices with lithium cobalt oxide (LCO) cathodes), and nickel‐rich EV and stationary storage battery chemistries (lithiumnickel-manganese‐cobalt (NMC) cathodes).

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