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 By K. Warner    Tech Bytes
Photo of an EV chassis complete with battery pack and electric drive motors.

LG invests 5.5 billion to build batteries

Top electric vehicle battery manufacturer LG Energy Solution, which supplies Tesla and other automakers, announced on March 24 that it will invest approximately $5.5 billion in a complex in Queen Creek,... — Updated 3/30/2023 Full story

 
 By A.J. Roan    Tech Bytes
3D rendering of Volkswagen’s future Salzgitter gigafactory.

Ontario new home to VW gigafactory

Setting up in one of North America's fastest-growing lithium-ion battery development zones, Volkswagen Group has foreseen the potential and has opted to build its next gigafactory outside of Europe in the... — Updated 3/21/2023

 
 By A.J. Roan    Tech Bytes
Authors of the paper detailing the discovery of solid state battery failure.

Solid-state battery problem discovered

In the pursuit of improving portable power, new lithium metal batteries with solid electrolytes tick off every box in next-gen battery technology – lightweight, higher capacity, faster charging, and... — Updated 2/7/2023 Full story

 
Rending of the completed Tesla Gigafactory Nevada in the desert near Sparks.

Giga-expansion of Gigafactory Nevada

Tesla's 140 GWh plant will produce batteries for 1.5M EVs per year; need globally significant mineral supplies. Tesla Inc. set the standard for giga-scale lithium-ion battery manufacturing with the startup... — Updated 2/7/2023

 
 By A.J. Roan    Tech Bytes
The front of BMW's next-generation of EVs or NEUE KLASSE.

BMW committed to solid-state batteries

Deepens alliance with Solid Power to commercialize next-gen cell tech. Under an expanded joint development agreement, BMW Group and Solid Power have added a research and development license as a basis for... — Updated 2/2/2023

 
 By A.J. Roan    Tech Bytes
A battery pouch made from lithium-sulfide solid-state chemistries.

Solid Power awarded $5.6M DOE funding

Seeking to achieve the next echelon of battery, Solid Power announced it has been awarded US$5.6 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy to continue developing its ground-breaking... — Updated 1/24/2023 Full story

 
 By A.J. Roan    Tech Bytes
A rendering of conventional li-ion battery chemistry and the new ORNL chemistry.

ORNL process for cleaner cathode material

Exploring new chemistries to reduce the necessity for critical metals needed for renewable energy, especially in the form of batteries, Oak Ridge National Laboratory has developed a method for producing... — Updated 12/13/2022

 
Close-up of FastLion battery to be manufactured by EC Power.

Team develops fast-charging tech for EVs

A team of researchers at Pennsylvania State University has developed a technology that enables electric vehicle batteries to obtain a full charge in just 10 minutes. The breakthrough in EV battery design,... — Updated 11/14/2022

 
 By A.J. Roan    Tech Bytes
A Microvast engineer studying General Motors' Ultium battery pack.

GM doubles down on battery separator tech

Being supported by a $200 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy's Battey Materials Processing and Battery Manufacturing initiative, General Motors has partnered with battery manufacturer... — Updated 11/8/2022

 
 By A.J. Roan    Tech Bytes
A rendering of synapses in the brain with neurons firing through them.

Quantum computers power VW research

Branching into the edge field of quantum computing, Volkswagen Group has partnered with Canadian quantum technology company Xanadu to answer a single question: can quantum computers help design batteries?... — Updated 11/1/2022

 
 By A.J. Roan    Tech Bytes
Considered a co-inventor of lithium-ion batteries, earning a Nobel Prize for it.

Father of lithium-ion batteries turns 100

Ask anyone, "who invented the lightbulb?" and most would be able to answer Thomas Edison. Ask anyone, "who invented the telephone?" and some would be able to answer Alexander Graham Bell. Ask anyone, "who... — Updated 8/2/2022 Full story

 
 By A.J. Roan    Tech Bytes
A prototype lithium-sulfur battery inside a freezer at minus 40 degrees C and F.

Hot or cold, Li-S batteries can take it

Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed something many of the most extreme temperate locations in the world have long been waiting for, batteries that perform well in freezing co... — Updated 7/12/2022

 
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Swedish partners select gigafactory site

Powering its ambition to become a fully electric automaker by 2030, Volvo Cars has teamed up with Northvolt to build a 50-gigawatt-hour-per-year battery gigafactory in Gothenburg, Sweden. "Our battery cell... — Updated 7/12/2022

 
 By A.J. Roan    Tech Bytes
fiber wire battery fabric Massachusetts Institute Technology MIT woven washable

MIT makes longest lithium battery fiber

Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineers have developed a rechargeable lithium-ion battery in the form of an ultra-long fiber that can be woven into fabrics and even washed. This latest innovation... — Updated 7/12/2022

 
 By A.J. Roan    Tech Bytes
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Stealthy solid state battery partnership

Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Corp. have partnered with Factorial Energy Inc., a solid-state battery manufacturer, to test the Massachusetts-based battery maker's novel technology in Hyundai electric... — Updated 7/12/2022

 
 By A.J. Roan    Tech Bytes
solid-state battery Samsung IDTechEx report lithium-ion forecast EV 2031

IDTechEx reports solid-state battery future

Research and technology firm IDTechEx has recently released a detailed report projecting the future of solid-state batteries and its potential to reach a market size of over $8 billion by 2031. Commerciali... — Updated 7/12/2022

 
solid-state batteries lithium-metal anode BLT-battery dendrite cathode

Extra tomato stabilizes solid-state battery

Adding an extra layer of tomato on a metaphoric BLT could be the solution to a decades-long problem that has prevented scientists from developing the solid-state lithium batteries that would significantly... — Updated 7/10/2022

 
Recycled high purity nickel cobalt lithium ion battery material

Li-ion battery producer, recycler team up

American Manganese Inc. and Voltabox of Texas Inc. are in talks to utilize American Manganese's patented process to recycle the cathode materials in lithium-ion batteries produced by Voltabox. Voltabox... — Updated 7/10/2022

 
Zinc8 Energy Solution zinc air electrical storage lab technician

Zinc8 lands NY energy storage installation

Zinc8 Energy Solutions, formerly MGX Renewables Inc, March 11 announced it has signed an agreement to install a 100-kilowatt (kw), 1.5-megawatt-hour (MWh) zinc-air energy storage system in Brooklyn, New... — Updated 7/2/2022

 
Samsung scientists develop carbon silver anode solid state lithium ion battery

Samsung solid state battery breakthrough

Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) and the Samsung R&D Institute Japan (SRJ) are working on high-performance, long-lasting all-solid-state batteries that are expected to significantly... — Updated 7/2/2022

 
Glencore Mutanda copper cobalt mine Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

Glencore joins Global Battery Alliance

Glencore plc March 6 announced it has joined the Global Battery Alliance, a World Economic Forum initiative to help establish and collaborate on a sustainable battery value chain. GBA is a partnership of... — Updated 7/2/2022

 
Nickel cobalt hydroxide from the cathodes of recycled lithium-ion batteries

Nearly pure cathode materials recovered

American Manganese Inc. Feb. 20 announced that its patented RecycLiCo process recovered up to 99.72% pure nickel-cobalt-manganese products generated from disassembled electric vehicle battery packs... — Updated 7/2/2022

 
Ford Mach-E 2021 electric vehicle Mustang EV Battery Passport recycling program

Battery passport for reuse and recycling

The sourcing of the cobalt, graphite, lithium, nickel and other materials that go into lithium-ion batteries, and what happens to these rechargeable cells when they are spent has many worried that... — Updated 7/2/2022

 
 By A.J. Roan    Tech Bytes
University of Queensland Australia graphene aluminum ion rechargeable battery

GMG pilots graphene aluminum batteries

Graphene Manufacturing Group Ltd. Dec. 9 announced that the pilot production and testing plant for its graphene aluminum-ion batteries is now operational and the first coin cells of these potential... — Updated 12/14/2021 Full story

 

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