Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2012

GE will invest an additional $70 million to expand its sodium-halide battery manufacturing plant in New York, which is part of the company’s new Energy Storage business. GE is also looking at using the batteries in heavy-duty hybrid applications such as in buses, locomotives and mining vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2015

British battery R&D company Faradion has demonstrated a proof-of-concept electric bike powered by sodium-ion batteries at the headquarters of Williams Advanced Engineering, which collaborated in the development of the bike. Sodium-ion intercalation batteries—i.e., Click to enlarge. Oxford University was also a partner.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Haldor Topsøe A/S, a global market leader in catalysis and related process technologies, recently acquired 18% of the shares in sodium-ion battery technology company Faradion Ltd, based in Sheffield, UK. Other partners in the investment included Finance Yorkshire’s Seedcorn Fund and Rising Stars Growth Fund II LP.

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Plug In India

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Demand for the element is so great for applications including electric vehicles, portable electronic devices, and stationary energy units, that lithium mining companies are struggling to keep up. In addition, about 90% of the world’s supply of lithium is controlled by Chinese companies. They both are alkaline metals.

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Baua Electric

JULY 21, 2024

Hindalco Industries , the world’s largest aluminium rolling and recycling company, is looking at a bigger play in the auto component business by leveraging the growing electric vehicle (EV) industry, said people aware of the company’s plans. Hindalco didn’t respond to ET’s queries.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2022

TerraPower, a nuclear innovation company, has closed an equity raise that yields a minimum of $750 million. SK Group is among South Korea’s largest energy providers and the second-largest conglomerate. Part of the ARDP award requires a match of 50% of project costs, up to $2 billion. The fundraise was co-led by SK Inc.

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EV Central

JANUARY 22, 2024

The global auto giant Stellantis has done a deal with a French battery-maker to secure fresh sodium-ion battery technology for its future EVs that could see electric cars finally undercut petrol cars on purchase price. Not that sodium-ion batteries are perfect, not just yet at least. READ MORE: Range anxiety solved?

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

The US Department of Energy is awarding $620 million for projects around the country to demonstrate advanced Smart Grid technologies and integrated systems. Smart grid regional demonstrations involving plug-in vehicles include (ranked by DOE funding): Columbus Southern Power Company (doing business as AEP Ohio). 29,561,142.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Federal Agency Battery and Energy Storage Initiatives and Funding Obligations, Fiscal Years 2009. GAO was asked to: identify the scope and key characteristics of federal battery and energy storage initiatives; determine the extent to which there is potential fragmentation, overlap, or duplication, if any, among these initiatives; and.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 11, 2024

TerraPower will first build the non-nuclear parts of the plant while the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission reviews TerraPower’s construction permit application, which it accepted last month. Construction will begin in 2025 on the “energy island,” where the steam turbines and other machinery that generate power will be.

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Charged EVs

APRIL 1, 2024

Several companies are developing chemical processes, but these are still at pilot scale, and Aqua’s execs see serious challenges in delivering the required product purity and dealing with waste streams. The company has a pilot line up and running to demonstrate its process, and has big plans to scale up its technology.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2017

In a review paper in the journal Nature Materials , Jean-Marie Tarascon (Professor at College de France and Director of RS2E, French Network on Electrochemical Energy Storage) and Clare Gray (Professor at the University of Cambridge), call for integrating the sustainability of battery materials into the R&D efforts to improve rechargeable batteries.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 12, 2024

Tiamat was one of 11 top-performing technology startups honoured with a Stellantis Ventures Award in 2023, and is the first company in the world to have recently commercialized a sodium-ion technology in an electrified product. Sodium-ion technology offers a lower cost per kilowatt-hour and is free of lithium and cobalt.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 1, 2024

Several companies are developing chemical processes, but these are still at pilot scale, and Aqua’s execs see serious challenges in delivering the required product purity and dealing with waste streams. The company has a pilot line up and running to demonstrate its process, and has big plans to scale up its technology.

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Get Electric Vehicle

AUGUST 22, 2021

The price of the lithium-ion batteries used in the EVs is the main culprit for the high initial cost of any electric vehicle in any part of the world. The only solution is to get back to the drawing board or in this case, to the labs and develop better and economical energy storage devices which can be manufactured in India economically.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 28, 2024

By incentivising companies to meet specific targets for incremental production, exports, and capital expenditure, the scheme encourages investments in modernisation, technology adoption, and expansion of manufacturing capacities. The PMP offers a scaled duty structure for imported EV parts, promoting local manufacturing.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2016

Zenyatta called the results another step in the process of qualifying Zenyatta’s Albany graphite for existing fuel cell markets in transportation and stationary energy storage. treatment using sodium hydroxide. The company has been able to achieve a carbon purity result of >99.9% plates and membrane electrode assembly).

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 12, 2024

Stellantis Ventures, the corporate venture fund of Stellantis, today announced its participation as a strategic investor in Tiamat, a France-based company that is developing and commercializing sodium-ion battery technology. Sodium-ion technology offers a lower cost per kilowatt-hour and is free of lithium and cobalt.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 30, 2024

Sodium-ion batteries offer benefits over their lithium-ion counterparts. Natron Energy Inc. will unveil what it bills as the first full-scale plant in the US for making sodium-ion batteries on Monday. Natron Energy Inc. Other companies — including HiNa Battery Technology Co. and Amazon.com Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2010

million), with the remaining funding provided by the UK organizations taking part in the work. This investment is part of our ongoing strategy to put the UK at the forefront of low carbon vehicle technology. High energy sodium-nickel battery cell for EV application (Acronym: NINACELL).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2012

The US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has selected 19 new projects to receive a total of $43 million to develop breakthrough energy storage technologies and support promising small businesses. Advanced Management And Protection Of Energy-Storage Devices (AMPED).

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Green Cars News

MAY 14, 2009

The business will be part of GE Transportation and is expected to serve consumers in the rail, utility, telecommunications, marine and mining sectors. The plant will produce around 10million sodium-metal halide cells each year, which is enough to support 1,000 GE hybrid locomotives.

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Get Electric Vehicle

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Companies Will Have More Affordable EVs Their Lineup As major automakers around the world develop their nascent EV lines, dozens of new EV vehicles including new premium models, middle-market sedans, SUVs, and pickup trucks will make their debuts in global markets in 2023 and 2024.

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Plug In India

APRIL 14, 2021

This battery contains a few 600 grams of lithium and remember this battery will last you for 5-7 years and still it will have a second life and can be used in energy storage applications. Also note that there are many promising battery research projects that are going on like Al-Air batteries or Sodium-Ion batteries.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2019

Natron Energy , a developer of new battery cell technology based on Prussian Blue analogue electrodes and a sodium-ion electrolyte, has closed a strategic investment by Chevron Technology Ventures (CTV) to support the development of stationary energy storage systems for demand charge management at electric vehicle (EV) charging stations.

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