Michelin’s Movin’On Summit was held virtually last week, and five sustainable mobility companies won its Startup Challenge because they stood out as being able to move from “ambition to action.”
Lithium-ion battery Stories June 11
Lithium-ion battery Stories April 28
SK Innovation, a South Korean battery supplier for Volkswagen and Ford, said on Tuesday it will spend $727 million to build a second EV battery plant in the United States. Construction is expected to begin in July, with battery production slated to start in 2023.
Lithium-ion battery Stories April 23
John Goodenough, the co-inventor of the lithium-ion battery, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2019. But two years earlier, he announced that he made a breakthrough on a solid-state battery that could mean the end of internal-combustion cars. Goodenough, now 97, is self-isolating from the coronavirus and working on Nobel-related commitments. But the job of commercializing the potential breakthrough is being carried forward by the public utility Hydro-Québec.
Lithium-ion battery Stories February 21
Researchers at the University of Michigan this week published a paper titled, “Strategies to Limit Degradation and Maximize Li-ion Battery Service Lifetime.” The goal was to examine the best strategies for extending battery life, including for EV batteries. In the project, which was conducted in cooperation with the Responsible Battery Coalition, an industry association, researchers compared the owner’s manuals for electric cars with academic research.
Lithium-ion battery Stories January 20
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
- Qatar to build an 800 MW solar farm with Total and Marubeni.
- A Tokyo University of Science team are developing potassium-driven rechargeable batteries.
- Cleantech Group announces its Global Cleantech 100, the companies most likely to make an impact.
Lithium-ion battery Stories January 15
Tesla is reportedly in talks with mining giant Glencore to secure a supply of cobalt, a controversial mineral used to produce Li-ion batteries used in most electric vehicles today. expand full story
Lithium-ion battery Stories December 5, 2019
In July it was announced that LG Chem was working on a potential new billion-dollar US battery cell factory for electric cars. Today in a security filing in South Korea, LG Chem confirmed that investment, and that GM will invest another billion.
Reuters reports that the location is expected to be in the area of Lordstown, Ohio, where GM (pictured in Detroit) recently sold its factory to an EV startup affiliated with Workhorse. This follows news earlier this week that Piedmont Lithium received an important federal permit to proceed with its lithium mine in Gaston County, North Carolina — the second in North America. Looks like Interstate 77 will be America’s hot new lithium corridor.
Lithium-ion battery Stories November 6, 2019
Volvo Cars announced today that it would become the first carmaker to implement global traceability of cobalt by applying blockchain technology. The Swedish carmaker said that it reached an agreement with its two global battery suppliers, CATL of China and LG Chem of South Korea, to trace cobalt supplies starting this year.
Lithium-ion battery Stories October 9, 2019
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
- Chemistry Nobel Prize win for lithium-ion batteries is a win for green energy.
- US interior secretary criticized Green New Deal at a New Mexico oil and gas conference.
- PG&E is cutting electricity to around 800,000 homes and businesses in Northern California to prevent wildfires.
- Five great green jobs on the rise according to BLS projections to 2026.
John B Goodenough of the University of Texas at Austin, M. Stanley Whittingham of SUNY Binghamton University, and Akira Yoshino of Meijo University have won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm today for the development of lithium-ion batteries.
