article thumbnail

Aqua Metals produces high-purity LiOH directly from recycled lithium-ion batteries

Green Car Congress

Aqua Metals has recovered high-purity lithium hydroxide (LiOH) from lithium-ion battery black mass at the company’s Li AquaRefining recycling facility located at the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center (TRIC). Earlier post.)

article thumbnail

Lithium-ion battery recycler ABTC expands operations and capacity with newly purchased facility

Green Car Congress

The demand for domestically produced and sustainably sourced battery metals has grown at a near insatiable rate over recent years, as the domestic manufacturing capacity of lithium-ion batteries has grown exponentially from less than 50 GWh/year to now more than 700 GWh/year of operational and announced capacity.

article thumbnail

Aqua Metals recovers high-purity nickel from lithium battery black mass

Green Car Congress

Nickel is an essential resource in the global push for electrification and clean energy technologies, and often makes up a substantial portion of the cost in electric vehicle batteries and energy storage systems.

Batteries 273
article thumbnail

Aqua Metals and 6K Energy partner to develop low-carbon CAM precursors for Li-ion batteries

Green Car Congress

This partnership not only creates low-carbon resources for battery and electric vehicle manufacturers but also enables greater supply independence at a competitive cost and less production time than imported materials from foreign sources.

Li-ion 199
article thumbnail

SQUID-5 provides imagery of complex 3D seafloor features with high accuracy and geolocation

Green Car Congress

The system was initially tested during the pandemic at Dollar Point, a bedrock reef in Lake Tahoe, California, a site with the required characteristics: shallow, clear water with a complex bottom. Resources Hatcher, Gerald A., Jonathan A. Warrick, Christine J. Kranenburg, and Andrew C. doi: 10.3390/rs15153727

Florida 150
article thumbnail

California Air Resources Board Adopts Regional Targets for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions Associated with Light Duty Vehicles

Green Car Congress

At its meeting in Sacramento yesterday, the California Air Resources Board (ARB) adopted targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in 2020 and 2035 associated with passenger vehicle travel in the state’s 18 Metropolitan Planning Organizations. Earlier post.). increasing the number of people who take public transit.

Emissions 225
article thumbnail

Redwood Materials opens up new facility just miles from Tesla Giga Nevada

Teslarati

Straubel, has opened up a new manufacturing facility in the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Park, just miles from Tesla’s Giga Nevada production facility. It’s a great thing for the environment, but it puts massive pressure on the supply chain and resources to build all these cars and batteries,” he added.

Nevada 140