Category: "Batteries & Battery Materials"
New Energy Narrative posts about batteries and battery materials.
- Australian Coalition ministers, per a new Austrade report: Australia must not squander the “once-in-a-generation” opportunity presented by the booming demand for lithium-ion batteries
- Lithium Werks will begin construction in 2019 on its battery factory in China, the first such factory built by a European company, which will have an initial annual production capacity of 8GWh
- Lithium Australia is claiming that it has achieved a world-first: Production of a lithium-ion battery made entirely of mining waste
- Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions of Japan and Johnson Controls Power Solutions of the U.S. are teaming up to make lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles starting in 2020
- Mercedes-Benz, as part of its “electric offensive,” intends to spend 20 billion euros on the purchase of lithium-ion battery cells for its planned line-up of 130 electrified vehicles by 2022
- Chinese EV maker BYD, backed by Berkshire Hathaway’s Warren Buffett, is looking to spin-off and list separately its electric vehicle battery business within the next 4-5 years
- Construction of a $4 billion lithium-ion battery project in Morowali, on the nickel-rich Indonesian island of Sulawesi, is set to begun on January 11, 2019
- Could fluoride-ion batteries ever compete with lithium-ion batteries for energy storage market share? The Honda Research Institute would like to think so
- The world’s largest electric vehicle battery cell maker, China’s CATL, plans to apply for up to CNY110 billion (US $16 billion) in credit as it looks to keep up with Tesla and others
- South Korean battery giant SK Innovation wants to not only invest billions of dollars and hire thousands of people within the U.S., but to “grow together” with U.S. society
