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billion will go to 11 projects in the materials separation and processing segment of the supply chain. Anovion , Scaling the Domestic, US Owned and Operated Anode Supply Chain for Synthetic Graphite, $117,000,000. Albemarle is finalizing the site selection for the lithium hydroxide conversion plant in the southeastern United States.

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JULY 21, 2021

million to 53 projects by 51 small businesses and entrepreneurs with phase II funding based on the initial success of their phase I awards, including follow-on awards to support projects closer to market. The large majority of rare earth metals used in the United States are imported from China. million); Fossil Energy (US$14.7

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JANUARY 14, 2022

Vicinity Motor, a North American supplier of commercial electric vehicles, and Proterra announced a new collaboration to power Vicinity’s electric transit buses and work trucks with Proterra’s battery technology. The Proterra Powered Vicinity Lightning vehicle is expected to begin production in the third quarter of 2022.

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JANUARY 15, 2022

through its US subsidiary Talon Nickel (USA) LLC, entered into an agreement with Tesla for the supply and purchase of nickel concentrate to be produced from the Tamarack Nickel Project in Aitkin County, Minnesota. Talon Metals Corp.,

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FEBRUARY 2, 2022

have entered into a long-term strategic offtake and market development agreement that will see bp, or its affiliates, purchase Nuseed Carinata oil to process or sell into growing markets for the production of sustainable biofuels. Initial research and market development programs are also underway in Europe and Australia.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Australia-based Magnis Energy Technologies has entered into a binding offtake agreement with Tesla for the supply of anode active materials (AAM) beginning in February 2025 with fixed pricing. The company is in the process of selecting a United States location for the AAM facility. Earlier post.)

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Accelera by Cummins, the zero-emissions business unit of Cummins; Daimler Trucks & Buses US Holding LLC [a Daimler Truck Group Company]; and PACCAR are partnering to accelerate and localize battery cell production and the battery supply chain in the United States. manufacturing jobs in the growing clean technology sector.

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JULY 13, 2021

Hyzon Motors ( earlier post ) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with TotalEnergies that reinforces the two companies’ shared commitment to evaluate and develop hydrogen refueling and vehicle supply solutions for long-haul transport to customers across Europe. The MoU strengthens the existing commercial relationship.

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APRIL 24, 2023

Volkswagen Group deliveries of all-electric vehicles (BEVs) rose by 42% in Q1 2023 compared to the prior-year period, which was hit harder by supply chain issues. China was the Group’s second-largest BEV market with deliveries of 21,500 vehicles (global share: 15%). BEVs made up 6.9% in the first three months of the previous year.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

A consortium of battery scientists, led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), will accelerate the commercialization of a new family of battery cathode materials called DRX or “disordered rock salt.” But DRX is on an unusually fast track toward commercialization.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Oxford Catalysts Group PLC has been selected to supply Calumet Specialty Product Partners, L.P. with a commercial, 1,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Gas-to-Liquids (GTL) plant to be located at its Karns City, Pennsylvania facility. —Roy Lipski, CEO of Oxford Catalysts Group.

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JULY 17, 2023

PLANA , a developer of hybrid advanced air mobility (AAM) eVTOL aircraft, signed a letter of intent (LOI) and a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Hi-Air, a South Korean commercial air carrier, to supply 30 AAM aircraft. Under the LOI, PLANA will supply its hybrid-electric AAM aircraft, CP-01, to Hi-Air from 2030.

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JULY 28, 2020

With operations in the United States, India and China, the company has expanded production capacity to more than 3 gigawatt hours (GWh) to meet the increasing demand for EVs as the market matures; the company plans to double this capacity in the next three to four years. —Paul Beach, president, Octillion Power Systems.

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JUNE 6, 2023

The Strategy and Roadmap provides a snapshot of hydrogen production, transport, storage, and use in the United States today and a vision for how clean hydrogen will contribute to national decarbonization goals across multiple sectors in the future.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2022

The overall scope includes demonstrations and commercial facilities for battery-grade precursor materials, battery components, and cell manufacturing and recycling. Commercial-scale domestic separation of battery materials from extracted feedstocks for cathode production. Commercial-scale domestic battery cell manufacturing.

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MAY 3, 2022

Source: Graph by the US Energy Information Administration, based on data from Japan’s Ministry of Finance, China’s General Administration of Customs, South Korea’s Customs Institute, India’s Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics, and Taiwan’s Ministry of Finance via Global Trade Tracker. Bcf/d and CNOOC with 0.2

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JULY 25, 2021

Eastman is collaborating with the United States Automotive Materials Partnership LLC ( USAMP ) and automotive recycler PADNOS for a concept feasibility study to demonstrate a closed-loop project to recycle automotive-industry mixed plastic waste in the automotive supply chain.

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OCTOBER 7, 2022

Electra has raised $85 million to produce Low-Temperature Iron (LTI) from commercial and low-grade ores using zero-carbon intermittent electricity. If the steel industry were a country, its carbon emissions would rank third in the world behind China and the United States. —Electra CEO Sandeep Nijhawan.

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JUNE 5, 2022

MCHG has also begun to consider the production and sale of anode materials in European countries and the United States. The market for Li-ion batteries for automobile applications is expected to grow about 30% annually on average. The production line is scheduled to start operation in the first half of fiscal 2023.

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OCTOBER 17, 2014

The Hugoton plant opening also marks the first commercial deployment of Abengoa’s proprietary enzymatic hydrolysis technology, which turns biomass into fermentable sugars that are then converted to ethanol. billion liters) of annual installed production capacity distributed among 15 commercial-scale plants in five countries.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Through the agreement, CLH will develop hydrogen production assets and downstream markets in Spain, in the industrial, mobility and power production/storage sectors for distribution to Plug Power customers throughout Europe. Plug Power says that its customers are currently the largest users of liquid hydrogen in the United States.

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JULY 29, 2014

Velocys plc announced that the final investment decision (FID) has been made to proceed with construction of a commercial small-scale GTL plant using its technology. It will provide a commercial reference site for the Velocys technology and will deploy a number of Velocys’ full-scale Fischer-Tropsch reactors. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Vulcan Energy Resources ( earlier post ) and Stellantis have signed a binding lithium hydroxide offtake agreement to supply, starting in 2026, a minimum of 81,000 tonnes and a maximum of 99,000 tonnes of battery-grade lithium hydroxide over the duration of the initial five-year agreement. Source: Vulcan Energy. Source: Vulcan Energy.

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JANUARY 16, 2023

Hanwha Group and LG Energy Solution (LGES) will invest in building battery production facilities in the United States. The joint investment will pave the way for Hanwha to lead the rapidly-growing energy storage market and future Urban Air Mobility business. They include enclosure, heat management and other balance of system.

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JUNE 5, 2023

Amprius Technologies, the developer of the next-generation lithium-ion battery Silicon Anode Platform, announced that it and the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains (MESC) mutually agreed to end the negotiation of a previously announced cost-shared demonstration project. Earlier post.)

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JANUARY 8, 2022

The retail launch in the two largest markets—the United States and China—started in December, providing a further boost to customer orders. The semiconductor supply situation remains volatile and the shortage is expected to impact the upcoming quarters in terms of production and sales. respectively.

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JULY 15, 2020

Announced in January 2020 by US Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette, the Energy Storage Grand Challenge (ESGC) is a comprehensive program to accelerate the development, commercialization, and utilization of next-generation energy storage. Over the Fiscal Years 2017-2019, DOE has invested more than $1.2

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MAY 29, 2023

billion in capital investment and supply 423+ full-time employees for operations. The project will be constructed over a 36-month period beginning in 2024 with commercial operations beginning in 2027. The Cushing Economic Development Foundation, Inc. The project is expected to have $5.56

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AUGUST 13, 2021

one of the leading ammonia marketers in the world, and CF Industries Holdings, Inc., the world’s largest producer of ammonia, announced a memorandum of understanding that will guide the companies in a joint exploration of the development of blue ammonia projects in the United States. Mitsui & Co.,

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JUNE 13, 2023

With the demand for electric vehicles (EVs) and stationary energy storage projected to increase the lithium battery market by as much as ten-fold by 2030, DOE says it is essential to invest in sustainable, reduced-cost recycling of consumer batteries in support of a secure, resilient, and circular domestic supply chain for critical materials.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Cabot Corporation plans to add conductive carbon additives (CCA) capacity in the United States to enhance its position in the market and support the transition to electric vehicles (EVs).

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DECEMBER 22, 2020

In addition to concerted research efforts, the Roadmap’s approach includes accelerating the transition of technologies from the lab to the marketplace, focusing on ways to manufacture competitively technologies at scale in the United States, and ensuring secure supply chains to enable domestic manufacturing.

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AUGUST 2, 2022

The US Department of Energy (DOE) launched the Cadmium Telluride Accelerator Consortium (CTAC) —a $20-million initiative designed to make cadmium telluride (CdTe) solar cells less expensive, more efficient and develop new markets for solar cell products. support the domestic CdTe supply chain, and enhance U.S. competitiveness.

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AUGUST 26, 2021

By utilizing compressed air for both cooling and oxygen supply, HyPoint reduces overall weight compared with traditional liquid cooling. The global eVTOL market size is forecasted to grow from an estimated $74 million in 2025 to $860 million by 2030, according to new market research.

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JUNE 9, 2021

The worldwide lithium-battery market is expected to grow by a factor of 5 to 10 in the next decade. The US industrial base must be positioned to respond to this vast increase in market demand that otherwise will likely benefit well-resourced and supported competitors in Asia and Europe.

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JULY 15, 2022

As part of the work outlined to advance the scalability and use of the technology, the companies will work toward a demonstration flight using E-Jet, and to supply the fuel to address some of Microsoft’s business travel on Alaska. Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 14, 2023

Commercial real estate and electric vehicle (EV) charging are a natural fit. According to research firm Nareit, commercial real estate in the United States was valued at nearly $21 trillion in the second quarter of 2021. Here are five ways that EV charging benefits commercial real estate. million by 2028.

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