Category: "Batteries & Battery Materials"
New Energy Narrative posts about batteries and battery materials.
- Panasonic intends to double its production of electric vehicle batteries in China, at a cost of several hundreds of millions of dollars, and has secured land for two new production lines already
- Nano One has entered into a Joint Development Agreement with Saint-Gobain of Paris aimed at enhancing the high-temperature processing of Nano One’s lithium-ion battery materials
- The Chinese government is set to relax its rules regarding foreign EV makers and battery producers operating within China and this is excellent news for LG Chem, Panasonic, SK Innovation, Samsung SDI, etc.
- Over a dozen Indian companies now have plans for lithium-ion battery production, as India attempts to catch up to its neighbor, China, in the global race for green vehicle dominance
- Researchers from Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University in Russia claim to have increased the capacity of lithium-ion batteries by 15% by adding a solid electrolyte to them
- European economic ministers from over a dozen countries have signed a seven-page statement which aims to accelerate battery cell production in the bloc, as Europe finally takes China seriously
- 24M, a battery start-up created by MIT scientists, just raised $22 million to build a “semi-solid” battery that could double the range of an electric vehicle via the removal of extraneous materials
- 24M is working on “SemiSolid” lithium-ion batteries, but are they wasting their time as the market has made it clear that fully solid-state batteries are the next big thing?
- MGX Minerals is partnering with the University of British Columbia to develop a method for fabricating silicon based anode for EV batteries that could quadruple the batteries’ energy density
- Benchmark Mineral’s Simon Moores invited to speak at the UK’s “The Battery – Inside Out” event, to be held at The Royal Institution of Great Britain in London, on March 12, 2019
