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- Top Producer Albemarle Risks Shutting German Plant if EU Declares Lithium a Hazard Fri, 10 Jun 22, 7:00pmTop lithium producer Albemarle Corp (ALB.N) may have to shut its Langelsheim plant in Germany if the metal used in electric vehicle batteries is declared a hazardous material by the European Union, its finance chief told...
- China’s Blood Batteries Sat, 30 Apr 22, 7:00pmAre Electric Vehicles really clean? They run on dirty energy and blood of children as young as 6. Electric cars drive human rights abuse and child labour. China is one of the villains in this story. Are electric carmakers...
- Automakers have battery anxiety, so they’re taking control of the supply Sat, 24 Jul 21, 7:50amBattery joint ventures have become the hot must-have deal for automakers that have set ambitious targets to deliver millions of electric vehicles in the next few years.
- Horror Autopilot Tesla Crash Kills Two, 30,000 Gallons of Water Before Firefighters Gave Up Mon, 19 Apr 21, 3:00pmA horror Tesla crash in Houston involving an auto-pilot Tesla car has claimed two lives. According to firefighters, the high energy batteries kept re-igniting - firefighters attempted to douse the battery fire for four hours,...
- The Dawn Of The E-Vehicle Battery Environmental Disaster …Discarded Even Sooner Than Expected Sun, 18 Apr 21, 7:00am“We would never have imagined the quantities that would accumulate after such a short time,” says Schmidt. His company alone and competitor Duesenfeld, both of which specialize in recycling car batteries, are recycling...
- Volkswagen will bring 240 gigawatt hours of battery production capacity to Europe by 2030 Tue, 16 Mar 21, 1:32amVolkswagen AG is gearing up to seize the top spot as the world’s largest electric vehicle manufacturer with plans announced Monday to have six 40 gigawatt hour (GWh) battery cell production plants in operation in Europe...
- Swedish battery manufacturer Northvolt receives a $14 billion order from VW Mon, 15 Mar 21, 11:30pmNorthvolt, the Swedish battery manufacturer which raised $1 billion in financing from investors led by Goldman Sachs and Volkswagen back in 2019, has signed a massive $14 billion battery order with VW for the next 10 years...
- From the ashes of nearly a billion dollars, Ample resurrects Better Place’s battery swapping business model Thu, 4 Mar 21, 4:30amA little over 13 years ago, Shai Agassi, a promising software executive who was in line to succeed the chief executive at SAP, then one of the world’s mightiest software companies, left the company he’d devoted...
- Volta Energy Technologies raises over $90M of a targeted $150M fund to back energy storage startups Fri, 19 Feb 21, 4:40amVolta Energy Technologies, the energy investment and advisory services firm backed by some of the biggest names in energy and energy storage materials, has closed on nearly $90 million of a targeted $150 million investment...
- Panasonic explores a European battery deal with Norway’s largest energy and industrial companies Wed, 18 Nov 20, 5:51pmPanasonic, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of lithium-ion batteries, has signed a preliminary agreement with the Nordic energy company Equinor and engineering and industrial company Norsk Hydro to collaborate...
- Improving high-energy lithium-ion batteries with carbon filler Wed, 11 Nov 20, 5:00amWASHINGTON, November 10, 2020 -- Lithium-ion batteries are the major rechargeable power source for many portable devices as well as electric vehicles, but their use is limited, because they do not provide high power output...
- GM, LG Chem to invest $2.3 billion in EV battery joint venture Fri, 6 Dec 19, 1:11amGM chairman and CEO Mary Barra said Thursday morning that the automaker is forming a joint venture with LG Chem to mass produce battery cells for its electric vehicles, a portfolio that will include a new battery-electric...
- Negative? How a Navy veteran refused to accept a ‘no’ to his battery invention Sat, 13 Jul 19, 3:53amThe journey for Trevor Jackson started, as many things do in tech, with research. He’d become fascinated by the experiments done not with lithium batteries, which had come to dominate the battery industry, but with so-called...
- Sila Nano’s battery tech is now worth over $1 billion with Daimler partnership and $170 million investment Wed, 17 Apr 19, 8:00amSila Nanotechnologies and its battery materials manufacturing technology are now worth more than $1 billion. The company, which announced a $170 million funding led by Daimler and a partnership with the famed German automaker,...
- GBatteries let you charge your car as quickly as visiting the pump Wed, 16 Jan 19, 7:41amA YC startup called GBatteries has come out of stealth with a bold claim: they can recharge an electric car as quickly as it takes to fill up a tank of gas...