Grease-powered EV charging in Australia
In a remote area of Australia, a roadside restaurant now has a fast charger for electric cars that gets its power from a generator powered by old cooking fat.
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Redwood to launch anode copper foil production
Redwood Materials, founded by ex-Tesla CTO JB Straubel, plans to start up its anode copper foil production facility at the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center in Nevada in the first half of 2022 and begin shipping to customers.
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Recycling-Startup Batterie Resourcers to build recycling plant in Georgia
The US battery recycling start-up, supported by Jaguar Land Rover among others, is building a commercial recycling plant for lithium-ion batteries in Covington, Georgia.
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Panasonic plans Tesla round cells with more recycled content
Panasonic battery cells from the Gigafactory in Nevada, operated together with Tesla, are to use more recycled materials in future as part of an expanded partnership with start-up Redwood Materials.
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Li-Cycle and LG enter into recycling and nickel agreement
The Canadian battery recycler Li-Cycle has concluded a still non-binding memorandum of understanding with South Korea’s LG Chem and its battery division LG Energy Solution for the supply of scrap from battery production and complete lithium-ion batteries for recycling as well as for the purchase of nickel.
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Volkswagen founds battery unit in Europe
Volkswagen has founded a European Company (Société Européenne) to bundle activities along the battery value chain. In the future, third parties will also be able to participate in the SE as investors. In addition, VW confirms a number of personnel appointments in battery development.
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BASF invests €4.5 billion in battery development and recycling
The chemical company BASF has announced that in future it will focus more on its electromobility offering. For this purpose, up to 4.5 billion euros are to be invested in battery materials and recycling by 2030 – in return, the business with exhaust gas catalysts is to be spun off.
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CATL begins building cathode plant in Yichang
CATL has begun construction of a large industrial park in the Chinese city of Yichang for the production of battery materials for electric vehicles and the recycling of batteries. The first phase is scheduled to be commissioned in 2023 and the entire project completed in 2025.
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Arrival & Li-Cycle to collaborate on battery recycling
The Canadian battery recycler Li-Cycle is cooperating with the British electric vehicle developer Arrival. The aim is to recycle old batteries from Arrival’s e-vehicle fleets in the USA and Europe.
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Stena Recycling to launch large scale battery recycling in 2023
Stena Recycling has started construction of its new battery recycling plant in Halmstad, announced in July. The site is located between Gothenburg and Malmö. The Swedish company aims to have the plant up and running in the first quarter of 2023.
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ZF & CATL announce after-market battery alliance
ZF and battery manufacturer CATL have entered into an aftermarket services partnership to strengthen their e-mobility focus. The core of the cooperation is the transfer of knowledge in the areas of service network, training on batteries, connectivity, recycling and reuse.
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Daimler battery recycling plant to be in Kuppenheim
Daimler has confirmed plans to build a battery recycling factory in Kuppenheim, Germany. Although rumours about a planned battery recycling plant were abound before, the German automaker had given no indication of the location for the plant or further details until now.
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Rio Tinto invests in InoBat
Mining group Rio Tinto is investing in Slovakian battery company InoBat. The investment follows a memorandum of understanding signed by the two companies in May to build a value chain for the production and recycling of electric car batteries in Serbia.
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Freyr signs with Glencore for 1,500 tonnes of cathode material
After an agreement in principle between Freyr and the raw materials trader Glencore at the beginning of the year, a first concrete contract now follows: It fixes the delivery of up to 1,500 tonnes of cathode material with partially recycled cobalt from Glencore’s Nikkelverk plant in Norway.
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Northvolt produces first 100% recycled NMC battery cell
Northvolt has produced its first battery cell with 100 per cent recycled nickel, manganese and cobalt as part of its Revolt recycling programme. The company is now looking to scale up its recycling facilities in Sweden to establish a facility able to recycle 125,000 tons of batteries per year.
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NFI & Li-Cycle to cooperate on battery recycling
In North America, bus manufacturer NFI Group and recycling company Li-Cycle are cooperating to offer battery recycling to public transport customers there. The partnership builds on a successful pilot e-bus battery recycling programme between NFI subsidiary New Flyer and Li-Cycle.
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BASF & SVOLT launch battery cooperation
The German chemical company BASF and the Chinese battery cell manufacturer SVOLT have agreed on a comprehensive partnership. The two companies want to cooperate in the development of new battery materials and the supply of raw materials, as well as in recycling.
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CATL to build recycling plant in China
CATL is aiming to build a recycling factory for battery materials in the central Chinese province of Hubei. Specifically, the group is planning a joint venture with the company Hubei Yihua Chemical Industry to recycle materials such as cobalt and lithium from used batteries of electric vehicles.
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Re-use, second life or recycling? Volkswagen BattMan ReLife knows
Volkswagen has just launched an analysis software called BattMan ReLife for batteries. The quick-check carried out by the software as an initial diagnosis is now being used in a pilot plant for battery recycling that Volkswagen Group Components has been operating at the Salzgitter site in Germany since the beginning of the year.
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Li-Cycle raises $100 million from investor
The Canadian battery recycling company Li-Cycle has raised a 100 million US dollar investment from Koch Strategic Platforms (KSP). The fresh capital is meant to support Li-Cycle’s growth ambitions in North America, Europe and Asia.
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Ford & Redwood announce strategic recycling partnership
Ford and Redwood Materials are forming a strategic partnership to drive the recycling of electric vehicle batteries in the US and create a closed battery loop. Ford has also invested 50 million US dollars in Redwood.
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Hyundai joins US companies on second life storage
South Korean Hyundai Motor Group is cooperating with the two US companies CPS Energy and OCI Solar Power to develop and test a system for solar energy storage from recycled electric car batteries by September 2022.
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Redwood Materials wants to expand beyond recycling
Redwood Materials, founded by ex-Tesla CTO JB Straubel, has announced an expansion beyond pure battery recycling. Starting from next year, Redwood itself wants to produce battery materials on a large scale from recycled materials.
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Johnson Matthey & OnTo launch recycling cooperation
The British chemical company Johnson Matthey is cooperating with OnTo Technology, a developer of battery recycling solutions. The aim of the partnership is to further develop OnTo’s patented recycling process ‘Cathode Healing’. The focus is on battery waste that is already generated during production.
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Li-Cycle announces plans for fourth battery recycling plant
The Canadian company Li-Cycle has announced its fourth commercial recycling plant for lithium-ion batteries. The new plant in Tuscaloosa in the US state of Alabama is expected to start operations in mid-2022. The Mercedes plant there will probably be an important supplier.
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Valmet & Fortum announce battery recycling cooperation
Valmet Automotive and Fortum have agreed to cooperate on battery recycling. This will ensure safe and sustainable recycling of all non-compliant battery materials from the battery plants Valmet Automotive operates in Salo and Uusikaupunki, Finland.
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XALT & ReCell launch recycling collaboration
XALT Energy and the ReCell Center, the battery recycling centre of the US Department of Energy’s Vehicle Technologies Office, are launching a joint collaboration to develop a sustainable recycling process for lithium-ion batteries.
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Redwood gathers $700 million in investment
The battery recycling start-up Redwood Materials, founded by ex-Tesla CTO JB Straubel, has raised more than 700 million US dollars from a group of strategic investors. The money is to be used to finance expansion.
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Irizar & Iberdrola to cooperate on public transport ecosystem
The Spanish companies Irizar and Iberdrola want to work together on the electrification of urban bus fleets, the necessary charging infrastructure and the recycling and reuse of electric bus batteries. To this end, both sides have now signed a cooperation agreement.
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Daimler to exclusively introduce EV platforms from 2025
Daimler presented its updated plans for the upcoming switch to electric mobility at an investor day. The goal: Mercedes-Benz is preparing with new platforms and battery factories to become fully electric before the end of the decade – with one caveat.
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