TechCrunch

AUGUST 14, 2022

In July, Kansas and North Carolina each announced the largest economic development projects in their histories, and Ford finalized a deal to bring its battery production to Tennessee and Kentucky. Here’s a look at some of the major projects underway: according to AlixPartners.

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TechNode

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The automaker responded to a Reuters report saying the project, which would create about 3,000 jobs and require an investment of almost 2.5 CATL has been making lithium-ion batteries at its first European plant in the German state of Thuringia since late 2021. Reuters ]

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

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. Heinemann estimates that the tooling cap-ex per megawatt hour should be just 20% that of lithium ion. I had essentially given up.”

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

According to automotive journalist Greg Kable, the five-seater D1 will feature a 136bhp (100kW) electric motor and lithium-ion battery from BYD’s Fudi factories in Chongqing. The two companies started working together on a vehicle design project two years ago. BYD is one of China’s leading EV manufacturers.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The Engage is instead meant as a research project: a way to explore how future games consoles could be made to be more sustainable and environmentally friendly. Not only do consoles draw a lot of power, but modern batteries use lithium, a rare earth mineral which has significant environmental costs to mine. “We

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The Verge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

It’s been almost a year since we’ve last heard from Harley-Davidson’s nascent electric bike project, but based on what the company is announcing today, it may have been well worth the wait. Harley-Davidson unveiled a stunning new electric bike that it says will go on sale in March 2021.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

kWh lithium-ion battery pack. The projected driving range of 150 km (93 miles) remains the same as earlier announced. The concept car’s 30 battery modules—comprising 180 lithium-ion cells—were installed in spaces adapted to the vehicle architecture: in the floor of the trunk (fully usable cargo capacity: 275 liters, 9.7

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Oh, and there’s one little tidbit I forgot to mention, which makes this even better: Sony isn’t including the PS5’s “largest projection” or optional base in those measurements, according to its press release. excludes largest projection, excludes Base). excludes largest projection, excludes Base). Tempest” 3D AudioTech.

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The Verge

AUGUST 13, 2021

Lamborghini claims this provides three-times the power of a lithium-ion battery with the same weight. Lamborghini is only making 112 units, a reference to the “LP 112” internal project name used during the original Lamborghini Countach’s development. Tearing ass through the Italian countryside is what this is really about.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

But Honda won’t say what fraction of that amount will be spent on developing rockets, robots, and flying cars, nor even if it plans on pursuing those projects as commercial businesses. How successful any of these research projects will be remains to be seen.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Energy Dome today announced the close of its $11 million Series A fundraise, with the goal of deploying the first commercially viable CO 2 battery in a demonstration project in its native Sardinia, Italy. Perhaps more interestingly, though, is that the operational life for the batteries is projected to be in the neighborhood of 25 years.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Michigan-based startup Our Next Energy (ONE) has closed a $25 million Series A for tech that it says can double the range of EVs, as more and more startups take aim at surpassing the pitfalls of conventional lithium-ion batteries. Key to the hybrid concept is in the chemistries: the Aries is a lithium-iron-phosphate (LFP) chemistry.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

The Warren Buffett-backed Chinese company shifted to building cars nearly two decades ago, applying its expertise in producing lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries to develop reliable, sub-$35,000 EVs. The knowledge gleaned from the project could help scale up production volumes in the medium- to long-term.

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The Verge

JULY 13, 2020

Volkswagen is still open to support small series projects that demonstrate the variety of conceivable concepts based on the MEB platform through their emotional appearance,” a spokesperson for Volkswagen said in an email to The Verge. “In Now, the automaker is considering working with Fisker Inc., Volkswagen says no deal has been reached.

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TechNode

AUGUST 10, 2023

On August 9, Chinese battery manufacturer Sunwoda announced its plan to establish a battery project in Hungary with an investment of approximately RMB 1.9 The battery factory will primarily engage in the production and sale of lithium-ion batteries and other power batteries, according to the firms announcement. billion ($263 million).

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TechNode

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The moves resonate in an industry that has long attempted to commercialize the technology, widely seen as a next-generation energy storage device because of its superior performance and safety compared with the current batch of liquid-state electrolyte lithium-ion batteries. The RMB 10.9 billion ($1.5

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The Verge

APRIL 6, 2021

Carbon offsets, like tree planting, have become a standard way for car companies and other businesses to write off their carbon emissions by investing in renewable energy or conservation projects aimed at bolstering forests’ ability to naturally store carbon.

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TechNode

JANUARY 31, 2024

Chinese electric vehicle battery maker CATL on Tuesday projected an up to 47.1% The battery giant was dethroned by BYD from the top spot in the more affordable lithium-iron-phosphate (LFP) battery segment last year, as the latter led the shipment with a 40.4% increase in net profit to RMB 41.5 billion ($5.8

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TechNode

APRIL 16, 2024

Why it matters: The development is the latest example of liquid-state lithium-ion pack leader China ramping up effort s to master the technology, as global auto giants expect solid-state batteries to give them an edge over competitors in the EV transition. The IM L6 sedan is scheduled for launch in May.

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TechNode

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Additionally, YOUIBOT continues to explore the new energy sector with lithium battery production at its core and is a partner to many well-known semiconductor and lithium battery manufacturing companies both domestically and internationally. It is the largest mobile robot enterprise in terms of shipments in the semiconductor field.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Malta spun out from the special projects group at Google’s parent company Alphabet and relies on some very old technologies combined in a novel way to provide long-duration energy storage that can be discharged during times of peaking demand — like the conditions that effected Texas’ power grid last week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2019

The Everledger process is also being used for things like recovering rare earth minerals (cobalt, lithium) from batteries, in the sustainability space. Everledger CEO Leanne Kemp talks about how blockchain has been able to remove and prevent conflict diamonds from being in the global supply chain.

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TechNode

JANUARY 16, 2024

Grenergy will incorporate them in the first two phases of the Oasis de Atacama project in northern Chile, set for full operation within two years, and with a total capacity of 4.1 The Spanish renewable energy group said it expects to complete construction of the largest energy storage project worldwide within three years.

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TechNode

MARCH 8, 2024

The good: reduced costs, innovation Among the key reasons for the price reductions is the plunging cost of raw materials for EV batteries, as the spot price of battery-grade lithium carbonate fell from more than RMB 500,000 ($69,450) per ton to just over RMB 100,000 throughout the last year.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

But when rechargeable lithium-ion batteries like those in Rivian’s EVs get tossed out, they do more than leave behind a big mess. Straubel co-founded Redwood Materials in 2017 as a side project and stepped down from his role as CTO at Tesla in July 2019. It’s raised more than $5 billion in less than two years.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

By early 2019, though, the startup postponed a planned sports car that was based on the solid-state technology and pivoted to the Ocean, which uses a more common lithium-ion battery. The man who ran the project is also no longer with the company and is suing Fisker Inc. Around that time, Fisker Inc. Fisker Inc. over his departure.

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The Verge

APRIL 19, 2022

In March, an anonymous source told Japanese news group NHK (via Bloomberg ) that Panasonic is looking to build a factory in either Kansas or Oklahoma to manufacture lithium-ion car batteries for Tesla. In February, Kansas Governor Laura Kelly signed off on a bill for a $4 billion “mega-project plan” offering incentives to large corporations.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Lithium ion battery failures were big again this past year. Lithium ion batteries will continue to power our mobile devices — and continue to catch fire now and then, but not that often. Project Hive is running targeted Facebook and Instagram ads to transform the way Americans engage with the refugee crisis. The effect?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 9, 2007

We're also working with those cities on generating some demonstration projects. JVH: In the first six months we had five Bay Area partner municipalities; San Francisco, Berkeley, Oakland, Alameda and Marin County have all sign on. Out of those, Marin County, Alameda and Berkeley have all placed their soft fleet orders.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The Wallace Center is being set up to develop future versions that will be completely different from the current lithium-ion composition. Technology like lithium metal or pure silicon anodes, even solid-state batteries.”. GM grew to be the largest automaker in North America on the back of combustion engines.

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The Verge

MARCH 18, 2021

These data points — a faster product life and higher volume of sales — helped convince Straubel to team up with Specialized on this project. A bill was just introduced in the House of Representatives that would incentivize the recycling of lithium-ion batteries , which are widely used by both electric cars and e-bikes.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The Tennessee plant will be a “mega campus” that houses a vehicle-production facility for Ford’s F-series pickup trucks and a battery assembly division, while the twin factories in Kentucky will manufacture lithium-ion batteries. Ford projects that it will create a total of 11,000 new jobs in the two states.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Bhattacharya is not new to the field of electric vehicles, having been a technology leader in rechargeable (lithium-ion) batteries for more than 12 years. Over the course of his career, he worked as the CEO of Mission Motors in Silicon Valley and was also a senior manager at Project Titan — the secret electric car project by Apple Inc.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Bhattacharya’s experience in the EV space is expansive, having been a technology leader in rechargeable (lithium-ion) batteries for more than 12 years. He has held executive positions in various companies, including at Mission Motors in Silicon Valley, Project Titan — the secret electric car project by Apple Inc.

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The Verge

MAY 11, 2020

Doug Monahan, the creator of the failed iBackPack crowdfunding project , is settling with the Federal Trade Commission and has agreed to never crowdfund again. He also blamed lithium-ion batteries and the recall of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7. Photo by Marie De Jesus for The Verge.

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The Verge

JULY 22, 2021

So are companies that supply some of the new technologies that make EVs possible, like lithium-ion battery manufacturers, as well as others in related industries, like autonomous vehicle startups and makers of lidar sensors. But none of those companies flirted with oblivion as much Faraday Future. A lot happened along the way.

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TechNode

AUGUST 28, 2024

The single-motor M03 offers a decent range of up to 620 km (385 miles) on a single charge, powered by an affordable lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery pack from BYD, and can accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h (62 mph) in 7.4 He added on Tuesday that the two companies spent RMB 4 billion on the project over four years. kWh per mile).

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