Batteries

Energy Saving

A Strategy to Create Highly Performing Cobalt-Free Cathodes for Lithium-Ion Batteries

Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries, rechargeable batteries that can store energy via the reversible reduction of lithium ions, are among the most widespread battery…

Electric Vehicles

Coal Giants Australia, Indonesia Look to Team Up on EVS, Batteries

Bilateral talks between Indonesia and Australia come at tense time for Asia-Pacific, and two countries have taken starkly different approaches to fierce strateg…

Electric Vehicles

Toyota Aims to Halve Size, Cost, and Weight of EV Batteries With New Solid-State Technology

Image: ToyotaToyota said on Tuesday it has made a technological breakthrough that will allow it to halve the weight, size, and cost of batteries.For both our li…

Battery

Australia Forecasts Brutal Lithium Price Correction as Output Surges

Greenbushes lithium mine, the world’s largest, is located 250km south of Perth. (Image courtesy of Talison Lithium.)The lithium market has been in turmoil with…

Electric Vehicle Battery

BYD Takes Next Steps on $290 Million Lithium Project in Chile

Chinese electric-car juggernaut BYD Co. is deploying an engineering team as part of a project to start processing lithium in Chile, home to the world’s bi…

Hydrogen Production

Posco to Invest $92 Billion Through 2030 in Batteries, Hydrogen

Posco Group, the South Korean conglomerate that owns the country’s biggest steelmaker, said it plans to invest 121 trillion won ($92 billion) through 2030…

Energy Storage Project

Argentina to Begin Lithium Battery Production in Sept

Livent’s Fenix operation in Argentina. (Image by Livent).Argentina’s first plant for lithium batteries will begin operations in September, using met…

Energy Storage Technology

Altris Presents High-Capacity Prussian White Cathode Material for Na-Ion Batteries; 160 Mah/G

Swedish sodium-ion battery developer Altris presented a pure Prussian White cathode material with a capacity of 160 mAh/g, making it the highest capacity declar…

Solid-State Batteries

Glencore in Talks to Back Argentina Lithium Plant for Future Supply

Centenario Ratones lithium project being advanced by France’s Eramet in Argentina. (Image by Argentina’s Minister of Economy, Twitter.)Glencore Plc …

Energy Saving

ANL Fluorinated Cation Electrolyte Could Help Enable High-Performance, Long-Lasting Li-Metal Batteries

Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory have developed a fluorinated cation electrolyte that could enable high-voltage lithium metal batteries. An open-acces…

Electric Vehicle Battery

Groundbreaking on New BMW Group High-Voltage Battery Assembly Plant in South Carolina

The BMW Group broke ground for a new high-voltage battery assembly plant in Woodruff, South Carolina. (Earlier post.) The BMW Group Plant Woodruff will produce …

Electric Vehicle Battery

EV Metals Will Come From Dead Batteries at New USPlant

Stock image.A new US plant will soon offer a solution for tight supplies of critical metals: Pull them out of dead batteries in a process that produces fewer em…

Energy Storage Project

Towards Efficient Lithium-Air Batteries With Solution Plasma-Based Synthesis of Perovskite Hydroxide Catalysts

With global warming on the rise, it has become imperative to reduce fossil fuel dependency and switch to alternate green energy sources. The development of elec…

Energy Storage Project

"Batteries Are a Good Replacement for Coal:" Utility Unveils Another 2,000MWH Big Battery

Batteries are a good replacement for coal: Utility unveils another 2,000MWh big batteryShareTweetThe head of the dominant energy utility in Western Australia sa…

Hydrogen Fuel Vehicle

Rolls-Royce Is Thinking About Making Some EVs Into Hydrogen Cars

The company’s CEO has stated that the automaker is thinking that it might exit batteries.Rolls-Royce is thinking about stepping away from typical battery …