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Minerva Lithium uses absorbent material to change the way we extract lithium

TechCrunch

Lithium, the crucial ingredient in the lithium-ion batteries that will power everything from your Tesla to your iPhone. . The problem is, extracting lithium is expensive , time-consuming, labor intensive and takes a serious toll on the environment. Image Credits: Minerva Lithium. The most precious of all?

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VW-backed QuantumScape says its solid-state batteries will enable EVs to travel farther and charge faster

The Verge

Most EV companies use “wet” lithium-ion batteries, which use liquid electrolytes to move energy around. We don’t see anything on the horizon that’s going to be close to what we’re doing,” said Jagdeep Singh, founder and CEO of QuantumScape, in an interview with The Verge. Solid-state batteries have eluded researchers for decades.

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Battery chemistry company Sila’s founder Gene Berdichevsky on the science of scaling up

TechCrunch

As principal engineer on the Roadster battery, Berdichevsky was one of the first people crazy enough to experiment with shoving a lithium-ion battery pack into a combustion engine vehicle. The anode stores lithium when the batteries charge. So it takes six carbon atoms to store one lithium atom. The result?

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EnerVenue raises $100M to accelerate clean energy using nickel-hydrogen batteries

TechCrunch

While lithium-ion works fine for consumer electronics and even electric vehicles, battery startup EnerVenue says it developed a breakthrough technology to revolutionize stationary energy storage. It’s notable that this round was funded by two companies that loom large in the oil and gas industry. “I I had essentially given up.”

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Battery recycling startup Cylib recharges its coffers to go faster

TechCrunch

Lyft, Redwood Materials partner to recycle shared e-bike and e-scooter batteries “The goal of this fundraising was to accelerate the industrialization of our sustainable recycling process, which has been developed over years of research. “This will enable true green and circular mobility.”

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Next China: YOUIBOT, China’s industrial mobile robot pioneer is going global

TechNode

As China’s domestic smart manufacturing industry enters a new stage of development, the demand for robots continues to rise. It facilitates the intelligent upgrade of industrial logistics and inspection operations for global enterprises, enabling stable, flexible, and efficient production operations.

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Battery Resourcers raises $70M to grow closed-loop battery supply chain

TechCrunch

Battery Resourcers , a startup that’s developing a closed-loop approach to lithium-ion battery materials, has raised $70 million in mid-round funding to scale its commercial operations across two continents. The company, which is based in Worcester, Massachusetts, doesn’t just recycle batteries.