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

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Most recently in November 2022, ABTC was selected for a competitive US DOE grant for a $20-million project to develop and commercialize a set of next-generation battery recycling technologies to even further enhance the recovery of recycled products and reduce the cost of operations.

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PNNL, Moselle to advance using magnetic nanoparticles to capture lithium, cesium from brines

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The patent-pending technology, developed at PNNL, has been licensed exclusively by Moselle Technologies, a start-up business that is piloting the technology in several US and international locations. And this will take out more than half the cost. The core nanoparticle consists of a form of iron oxide better known as magnetite.

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Tesla and the EV sector’s growth is driving up lithium, cobalt, and nickel prices

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Led by successful vehicles like the Tesla Model 3, which are compelling alternatives to comparable internal combustion cars, EV sales are taking off. Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, a company that tracks the worldwide battery supply chain, noted that lower costs helped boost EV sales by 112% in 2021 to over 6.3

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US EV Sales Share Reaches 7% in Q2 2022 — New Data Now Available?

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While US consumers are showing a huge appetite to buy or lease EVs, the question is if automakers can meet this demand due to supply chain issues and scaling EV productions. Four states (California, Colorado, Nevada, and New Jersey) had a higher EV (BEV + PHEV) sales share in Q2 2022 than regular hybrid sales share for the state.

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Tesla Semi has been pushed ‘well beyond expectations’ by a new customer

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In October 2023, we learned that Tesla had only built about 70 Tesla Semi trucks and the company was using them internally and with one main customer: PepsiCo. Tesla was supposed to expand production of the truck at a Gigafactory Nevada expansion announced last year, but the automaker only recently broke ground on the construction project.

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Tesla outlines scheme for $4-5B battery Gigafactory; announces $1.6B offering

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In October 2013, Panasonic and Tesla had already expanded their 2011 supply agreement so that Panasonic will supply nearly 2 billion automotive-grade lithium-ion battery cells to Tesla through 31 December 2017 at long-term preferential prices. Finalists for the Gigafactory location are Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.

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American Battery Technology expands R&D center at the University of Nevada, Reno

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The labs are currently housed at the Nevada Center for Applied Research (NCAR) located at the University of Nevada Reno (UNR). The company’s in-house developed systems have the ability to recover and purify battery metals to the quality standards required to sell them directly back into the domestic battery manufacturing supply chain.

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