Category: "Batteries & Battery Materials"
New Energy Narrative posts about batteries and battery materials.
- South Korean battery giant LG Chem is considering building a second European lithium-ion battery factory in Hungary, based on increasingly exponential demand for electric vehicles
- Chinese EV and battery giant BYD, backed by Berkshire Hathaway’s Charlie Munger, has just broken ground on a new 20GWh battery plant in Chongqing, China
- China’s CATL is planning to greatly expand production capacity at its planned lithium-ion battery plant in Erfurt, Germany as Europe struggles to build its own batteries
- Swedish battery startup Northvolt says it wants to “vertically integrate” its operation by getting into cathode production
- Chinese battery giant CATL and Chinese EV maker FAW have established a joint venture for developing, producing, and selling lithium-ion batteries, including energy storage systems
- Tesla’s attempt to acquire battery tech firm Maxwell is being challenged via a Class Action lawsuit filed by Maxwell’s shareholders
- America’s PolyPlus and South Korea’s SK Innovation team up to develop glass separator for solid-state lithium-metal batteries
- South Korea’s SK Innovation is spinning off its information and electric material division so it can respond faster to lithium-ion battery-related demand from the EV sector
- Wood Mackenzie says, with a straight face, that Europe will produce six times more battery cells for electric vehicles by 2026 than it does now
- South Korean battery giant, LG Chem, apparently threatened by VW’s European battery factory plans, is allegedly threatening to cut the carmaker off from its battery cell supply
