Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2023

Amprius Technologies, a developer of next-generation lithium-ion batteries with its Silicon Anode Platform, unveiled its newest ultra-high-power-high-energy lithium-ion battery.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2023

SAE International has released a new standard document that aids in mitigating risk for the storage of lithium-ion cells, traction batteries, and battery systems intended for use in automotive-type propulsion systems and similar large format (e.g., stationary, industrial) applications. —Ronald M.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

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). Aqua Metals in January electroplated its first critical battery metal—copper—from Li-ion black mass.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Benchmark Mineral Intelligence reports that battery producers have begun to increase lithium-ion cell prices following a period of consistent raw material price rises throughout 2021, particularly for lithium. Lithium carbonate has been singled out as a major driver behind the battery cell price increases.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2022

UK-based Nexeon is a desiger of silicon-based anode materials that improve performance of lithium-ion batteries for EVs and consumer electronics. Nexeon’s customers have found that NSP-2 offers a step-change improvement in lithium-ion battery performance while also reducing the weight of the battery.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2021

One of the major causes for the drop in capacity over time in Li-ion batteries is the degradation of the widely used graphite anodes. interactions between the bis-imino-acenaphthenequinone groups and graphite, and also from the good adherence of the copolymer’s ligands to the copper current collector of the battery. 0c02742.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2023

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. Further, the metal’s cost keeps climbing.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2020

North America’s largest capacity lithium-ion battery recycling company, announced that its Spoke 2 facility at Eastman Business Park (EBP) in Rochester, New York is now fully operational. The company processes all types of lithium-ion batteries regardless of their previous application, chemistry, or state of charge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2022

Solid-state batteries could potentially not only deliver twice as much energy for their size, they also could virtually eliminate the fire hazard associated with today’s lithium-ion batteries. The new findings could potentially be applied rapidly to battery production, Yildiz says.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2022

A joint research team from Tohoku University and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has made a significant advance towards high-voltage metal-free lithium-ion batteries by using a small organic molecule: croconic acid. Increasing organic batteries’ voltage could lead to higher energy-density batteries.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2021

Ascend Performance Materials has successfully challenged a lithium-ion battery technology patent held by Samsung SDI. The board’s decision broadly enables manufacturers to use Ascend’s Trinohex Ultra in the United States for their lithium-ion battery electrolyte formulations.

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Innovation News Network

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Discover how Flinders University researchers are pioneering practical polymer-based Aqueous zinc-ion batteries using organic cathodes. The post Aqueous zinc-ion batteries: A promising alternative to lithium-ion batteries? appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 19, 2023

New Collaboration Balances Sustainability and Profitability of Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling In our pursuit of sustainable energy solutions, the environmental and supply chain impacts of the lithium-ion batteries that power electric vehicles should not be overlooked.

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The Driven EV News

AUGUST 28, 2024

Researchers say they have developed a compact system for recycling lithium-ion batteries used in EVs that they hope will enable cost-effective and environmentally friendly recycling. The post Researchers develop new process for recycling EV lithium-ion batteries appeared first on The Driven.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2021

Freudenberg Sealing Technologies (FST) has expanded its material testing capabilities to include performance and compatibility evaluations of the rubber, elastomers and thermoplastics used to seal and safely maintain lithium-ion batteries. Lithium-ion material testing, however, requires a unique set of inputs to safely succeed.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 13, 2024

Federal and state lawmakers in the United States are considering lithium ion battery regulations to prevent fires. Fire safety concerns have become a highly-discussed topic since an electric Mercedes-Benz caught fire in South Korea , sparking the South Korean government to consider electric vehicle (EV) battery policies.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

An international team led by scientists from the Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials at the University of Wollongong in Australia has verified that the introduction of novel molecular orbital interactions can improve the structural stability of cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries. —Dr Liang.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2022

The extraordinary electrochemical performance of molybdenum disulfide foam outperforms most reported molybdenum disulfide-based Lithium-ion battery anodes and state-of-the-art materials. The material could become a key component of fast-charging, long-lived lithium batteries.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 14, 2024

Having crossed some technical hurdles, low cost sodium batteries are hurtling towards the market for grid energy storage, EVs, and more. The post Sodium Batteries Challenge Lithium-Ion On Cost, Supply Chain appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2020

Researchers from the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a cobalt-free high-energy lithium-ion battery, eliminating the cobalt and opening the door to reducing the costs of producing batteries while boosting performance in some ways. energy lithium?ion ion batteries.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2020

Enovix Corporation has secured $45 million in new funds to produce and commercialize its 3D Silicon Lithium-ion Battery. Enovix has developed a lithium-ion battery that incorporates a 100% active silicon anode using a patented 3D cell architecture to increase energy density and maintain high cycle life.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Northvolt has assembled the first battery cell at the newly commissioned Ett gigafactory in northern Sweden. The cell is the first to have been fully designed, developed and assembled at a gigafactory by a homegrown European battery company. The cell is of a prismatic cell format and came off the cell assembly line on 28 December.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2020

Researchers from Chengdu Development Center of Science and Technology have significantly enhanced the performance of titanium niobium oxides for lithium-ion batteries. Due to its high security and capacity, titanium niobium oxide (TNO) has gained much attention as anode material for lithium-ion batteries.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The average cost of a Li-ion battery cell—used to power electric vehicles and to provide flexibility in the power grid as more renewables, such as solar and wind, are added will fall below $100 per kilowatt hour (kWh) in the next three years, according to a new analysis by IHS Markit. Cost is the name of the game.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

KULR Technology Group, a developer of lithium-ion battery safety and thermal management technologies, will provide its KULR-Tech Safe Case to lithium-ion battery recycler Heritage Battery Recycling (HBR), a new platform company of The Heritage Group, for the safe transportation logistics of HBR’s battery collection operations across North America.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2023

In Germany, a project led by electrolyte company Elyte Innovations GmbH is pursuing the recovery of the non-metallic components—including lithium salts, solvents and electrolyte additives—from spent lithium-ion batteries. The costly extraction of these materials entails numerous ecological risks.

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Electric Cars Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

This agreement was reached as a result of continued discussions on collaboration for the production of lithium-ion battery separators in Canada based on the basic agreement the two companies announced on […] The post Asahi Kasei and Honda Form JV for Production of Lithium-ion Battery Separators in Canada appeared first on Electric Cars Report. (..)

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Stanford University scientists have identified a new solid-state Li-ion electrolyte predicted to exhibit simultaneously fast ionic conductivity, wide electrochemical stability, low cost, and low mass density. log scale) of several known solid Li-ion conductors and the predicted values for the best Li?B?S Sendek et al.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Dürr is positioning itself in the growing Li-ion battery market as a supplier of production technology and is expanding its market access to battery manufacturers through a cooperation with Techno Smart, a leading Japanese manufacturer of coating systems. Dürr Megtec is part of the Clean Technology Systems division.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2019

The model predicts lithium-ion batteries to be the cheapest technology in the coming decades. We have found that lithium-ion batteries are following in the footsteps of crystalline silicon solar panels. Researchers at Imperial College London (ICL) developed a model to determine the lifetime costs (i.e.,

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Innovation News Network

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Researchers have improved the lithium-ion battery's performance by using titanium diboride nanosheets as an anode material. The post Lithium-ion battery technology improved with nanosheets appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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Electrek

JULY 9, 2024

billion loan from the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Loan Programs Office to build a lithium-ion battery separator factory in Terre Haute, Indiana. ENTEK just got a conditional $1.2

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2019

Researchers at MIT, with a colleague from Tsinghua University, have developed a safety envelope for Li-ion batteries in electric vehicles by using a high accuracy finite element model of a pouch cell to produce more than 2,500 simulations and subsequently analyzing the data with Machine Learning (ML) algorithms. —Li et al.

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Innovation News Network

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Aston University has received a grant of £443,058 to improve lithium-ion battery safety through gel electrolyte materials. The post Aston University receives over £400,000 to enhance lithium-ion battery safety appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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Cars That Think

JULY 13, 2023

Goodenough , one of the inventors of the lithium-ion battery, died on 25 June at age 100. He probably is best known for developing the lithium cobalt oxide cathode in 1980—which became the foundation for Sony’s first commercial lithium-ion battery in 1991. His first was lithium cobalt oxide.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Nouryon has begun the first deliveries of AkuPure, a carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) polymer targeted specifically at lithium-ion batteries, a market that is growing quickly due to increased demand for electric vehicles. Customers in the battery market require ultrapure CMC, said Geert-Jan Beijering, Product Director at Nouryon.

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Electric Cars Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

BASF, a globally leading battery materials producer, and SK On, a globally leading electric vehicle battery cell manufacturer, have entered into an agreement to jointly evaluate collaboration opportunities in the global lithium-ion battery market focused on North America and Asia-Pacific.

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