Category: "Batteries & Battery Materials"
New Energy Narrative posts about batteries and battery materials.
- Chinese EV startup NIO has begun deliveries of its new ES6, complete with NCM 811 batteries, despite multiple instances of its earlier ES8 model spontaneously combusting
- Volkswagen says they only have “the first few years” of their EV battery needs covered, have angered their Asian suppliers by doing a JV with Northvolt
- NMC 811 batteries could be coming to EVs sooner than expected, as the low-cobalt, high-nickel chemistry has experienced a 250% year-over-year leap in deployments
- In curious move, China’s CATL, the world’s largest EV battery maker, is adding electric bicycle packs to its product line-up
- Cathode materials developer Nano One has received a purchase order from a mysterious “global automotive company” that wants to evaluate their product in “high energy density” batteries
- Battery maker Northvolt and lithium miners Savannah Resources, Infinity Lithium, and Keliber Oy could all be huge winners in the next decade, as Europe increasingly wrests control of its energy future away from China
- Germany is throwing €1 billion at domestic battery production, in the hopes of becoming independent from Asia…but is it enough?
- In a move that could open the Chinese EV market up to Korean and Japanese battery makers, China has scrapped its list of “recommended auto battery suppliers,” which had favored domestic firms
- Is Tesla planning on bypassing its partnership with Panasonic and producing its own EV batteries soon, using recently acquired Maxwell Technologies tech?
- French automaker PSA plans to assemble battery packs for electric vehicles under three of its brands at plants in Slovakia and Spain
