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AUGUST 19, 2021

Sakuú Corporation, an additive manufacturing technology company, announced the start of its solid-state battery ( earlier post ) pilot line and learning center. MWh per year of solid-state batteries and in the future will also serve as a customer learning center for its advanced additive manufacturing platform.

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JANUARY 21, 2022

Members of the Corporate Electric Vehicle Alliance presented top vehicle manufacturers, including Volvo, GM, Daimler and Toyota, with a roadmap for developing the types of electric vehicles that companies plan to acquire in the US over the next five years. million on-road vehicles in the United States. LDV ZEV Preferences by Vehicle Type.

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JANUARY 15, 2022

Battery Resourcers, a vertically integrated lithium-ion battery recycling and engineered materials company, plans to open a commercial-scale, lithium-ion battery recycling facility in Covington, Ga. The site is strategically located near several EV manufacturing hubs and lithium-ion gigafactories. 2021.09.005.

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OCTOBER 30, 2020

Li-ion battery provider Octillion Power Systems is working with the reborn FNM (now Fábrica Nacional de Mobilidades) in Brazil to produce battery-electric trucks; FNM has selected Octillion as the official battery supplier for the coming lineup. FNM was founded in 1942 and was the first truck manufacturer in Brazil.

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MARCH 13, 2020

Commercial fast-charging stations subject electric car batteries to high temperatures and high resistance that can cause them to crack, leak, and lose their storage capacity, according to researchers at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) in a new open-access study published in the journal Energy Storage. Ozkan Lab/UCR).

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APRIL 26, 2023

The Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology IWS in Dresden is leading a research project targeting a new generation of sulfur-based batteries. Free of the critical elements cobalt and nickel used in lithium-ion technology, sulfur achieves very high energy densities in solid-state batteries. million in funding.

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MARCH 24, 2023

Following months of promising test results, battery researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are recommending that the solid-state battery industry focus on a technique known as isostatic pressing as it looks to commercialize next-generation solid-state batteries.

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MAY 29, 2021

In a perspective piece in the journal Joule , researchers at the University of Michigan lay out the main questions facing lithium-metal, solid-state batteries. To develop the questions, they worked in close collaboration with leaders in the auto industry. What will the added hardware mean for battery pack performance?

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

China dominates BloombergNEF’s (BNEF) lithium-ion battery supply chain ranking in 2020, having quickly surpassed Japan and Korea that were leaders for the majority of the previous decade. While both countries are leaders in battery and components manufacturing, they do not have the same influence in raw materials refining and mining as China.

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APRIL 12, 2023

billion) in its Oakville Assembly Complex to transform it into a high-volume hub of electric vehicle manufacturing in Canada. The transformed campus will feature a new 407,000 square-foot on-site battery plant that will utilize cells and arrays from BlueOval SK Battery Park in Kentucky. Ford Motor Company is investing C$1.8

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AUGUST 6, 2022

Autocar, a leading manufacturer of specialized severe-duty vocational trucks, has built its first two alpha units that feature an all-electric powertrain. Autocar’s All-Electric E-ACX with cover removed to display one of three high voltage battery packs. Autocar is the only OEM with this type of integration.

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JULY 26, 2021

DANNAR manufactures the DANNAR Mobile Power Station (MPS), a configurable platform that serves as both a multi-purpose work utility vehicle as well as a mobile power supply. can provide up to a half Megawatt of energy storage in its high-capacity BMW lithium-ion battery packs. Nuvera is a subsidiary of Hyster-Yale Group, Inc.,

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MARCH 11, 2021

ion Ventures, a modern utility and energy storage infrastructure specialist, and LiNa Energy , a solid-state battery technology developer, concluded their first successful trial of LiNa’s proprietary solid-state sodium-nickel battery platform at an undisclosed location in South East England last week.

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AUGUST 23, 2021

Chinese EV manufacturer XPeng signed an agreement with the Zhaoqing Municipal Government and the Zhaoqing High Technology Industry Development Zone to build the Phase Two expansion project of the XPeng Zhaoqing Smart EV Manufacturing Base located in Guangdong Province. Zhaoqing Xpeng Motors Intelligent Industrial Park.

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MARCH 10, 2023

A global Automotive Manufacturing Outlook survey commissioned by ABB Robotics and industry publication Automotive Manufacturing Solutions found that more than half (59%) of respondents believe the shift to pure electric vehicle production is not achievable within current legislative timelines.

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APRIL 23, 2021

A new report sponsored by ABB Robotics and authored by the automotive intelligence unit of Ultima Media auggests that concerns over EV battery supply to meet the escalation in demand poses serious risk to the growth of market share of electric vehicles, despite plans for 80 new global battery gigafactories.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

and a manufacturer of heavy-duty transit buses and emission-free technology, announced that the next generation of its zero-emission products, Axess Battery Electric Bus (EVO-BE) and Axess Hydrogen Fuel Cell Electric Bus (EVO-FC), are now in development. The next generation Axess EVO-BE will feature 738 kWh of battery energy storage.

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AUGUST 10, 2023

ICL, a global specialty minerals company, celebrated the groundbreaking of its battery materials manufacturing plant in St. The 140,000-square-foot facility is expected to produce 30,000 metric tons of LFP and will serve as the foundation for the company’s global battery materials business. Earlier post.)

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FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Sakuu Corporation ( earlier post ) has successfully and consistently 3D-printed fully functional high-performance batteries in custom shapes and sizes since December 2022. Further, our printing process can allow for substantial gains in energy density for a completed battery.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Hyundai Motor Group and LG Energy Solution (LGES) will invest an additional $2 billion in their battery cell manufacturing joint venture (JV) at the Metaplant in Bryan County, raising the JV’s total investment value to more than $4.3 With the new announcement, the EV manufacturing facility and the battery JV represents an estimated $7.59

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MARCH 8, 2022

With the accelerating transition to electric vehicles (EVs), demand for the materials used to produce batteries will increase significantly and rapidly. Aside from the lithium needed to produce modern lithium-ion batteries, much attention is focused on the cost of the materials used for EV battery cathode production.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

QuantumScape Corporation, a developer of next generation solid-state lithium-metal batteries for use in electric vehicles, and Kensington Capital Acquisition Corp., Volkswagen and QuantumScape previously announced the formation of a manufacturing joint venture to prepare for the mass production of solid-state batteries for Volkswagen.

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

billion to 21 projects to expand domestic manufacturing of batteries for electric vehicles (EVs) and the electrical grid and for materials and components currently imported from other countries. This US-owned and operated manufacturing plant in northern Alabama will be the first of its size in North America. Earlier post.)

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FEBRUARY 7, 2021

The European Commission has approved , under EU State aid rules, a second Important Project of Common European Interest (IPCEI) to support research and innovation in the battery value chain. The project complements the first IPCEI in the battery value chain that the Commission approved in December 2019 with €3.2 Earlier post.).

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FEBRUARY 9, 2022

the developer of silicon anode Li-ion battery cells with its Si-Nanowire platform ( earlier post ), has shipped the first commercially available 450 Wh/kg, 1100 Wh/L lithium-ion battery cells to an industry leader of a new generation of High-Altitude Pseudo Satellites (HAPS). Amprius Technologies, Inc.,

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MARCH 7, 2023

More than two-thirds (68%) of lithium-ion battery production planned for Europe is at risk of being delayed, scaled down or cancelled, according to new analysis by the European NGO Transport & Environment. Battery production capacity equivalent to 18 million electric cars—1.2 Europe must act or risk losing it all.

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MARCH 18, 2021

Proterra , a leading innovator in commercial vehicle electrification technology, and Lightning eMotors announced a new collaboration to power the Generation 4 Lightning Electric Transit commercial van using Proterra’s battery technology. The first Lightning Electric Transit vans are expected to be delivered to customers later this year.

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DECEMBER 9, 2020

A commercially viable solid-state lithium-metal battery is an advancement that the battery industry has pursued for decades, as it holds the promise of a step function increase in energy density over conventional lithium-ion batteries, enabling electric vehicles with a driving range comparable to combustion engine-based vehicles.

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OCTOBER 31, 2021

In addition to being the first zero-corrosion battery electric bus (BEB), it is the first to offer 40', 35' and 32' bus lengths. ENC partnered with Cummins for the electric powertrain/battery system on the Axess; the Axess BEB uses Cummins NMC batteries in either 444 or 518 kWh configurations.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Canada-based Snow Lake Lithium has outlined plans to develop the first all-electric hard-rock lithium mine in Manitoba, Canada, thereby developing a domestic supply of this critical resource to the North America electric vehicle industry. —Philip Gross, CEO of Snow Lake Lithium.

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MARCH 31, 2023

Umicore and Blue Current , a manufacturer of silicon elastic composite solid-state batteries, have agreed to strengthen their collaboration on the development of solid-state battery technology, with Umicore investing a minority stake in the US-based start-up. In June 2022, Umicore and Idemitsu Kosan Co.,

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FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The first charging station for EVs that uses energy storage based on second-life batteries from Irizar e-mobility is up and running. Irizar e-mobility and Ibil earlier signed a collaboration agreement to give a second life to electric bus batteries. Irizar e-mobility also manufactures and develops its own batteries.

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MARCH 9, 2023

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.

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JUNE 30, 2021

Researchers working on the Faraday Institution project on the recycling of lithium-ion batteries (ReLiB) at the Universities of Leicester and Birmingham say they have solved a critical challenge in the recovery of materials used in electric vehicle batteries at the end of their life, enabling their re-use in the manufacture of new batteries.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

A new white paper published by the Argonne National Laboratory Collaborative Center for Energy Storage Science (ACCESS) outlines a clear set of battery requirements and research and development needs to accelerate the commercialization of electric propulsion for aviation—from air taxis in the near term to 737 class aircraft in the long term.

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DECEMBER 2, 2021

AKASOL AG is introducing its third generation of battery systems manufactured in series production. The ultra-high energy battery system will be manufactured in the Gigafactory 1 in Darmstadt from 2023. Service life is up to 4,000 charging cycles—making the lithium-ion battery system extremely long-lasting.

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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.

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