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BMW has begun construction of a new plant for the assembly of high-voltage batteries in Woodruff in the US state of South Carolina. In future, sixth-generation batteries will be assembled there, which will be used for electric cars at ...

Project REVAMP looks at battery assessment for utility vehicles

In the REVAMP project, a consortium of nine partners wants to create a process to automatically assess the condition of used commercial vehicle batteries. This should make it possible to remanufacture batteries economically. REVAMP stands for “Remanufacturing of variant ...

Huayou Cobalt to build cathode plant in Hungary

The Chinese company Huayou Cobalt will build its first European factory in Hungary to produce cathode material for electric car batteries. The planned site in Ács is only a few kilometres from the city of Győr, where Audi operates ...

Ola announces Gigafactory in India

Ola Electric has started constructing its battery cell factory in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Once fully operational, it will have a total capacity of 100 GWh. The factory in Krishnagiri is scheduled to go into operation ...

USA: LPO announces conditional loan for BlueOval SK

Washington wants to financially support Ford and SK On, announcing a conditional commitment for a loan of up to $9.2 billion. The two companies want to set up three battery manufacturing plants in the US. The latter will be ...

Umicore builds solid-state battery prototypes in Belgium

Umicore has officially opened its newest facility in Olen, Belgium, where it plans to produce solid-state battery prototypes. It is said to be a “large-scale prototyping centre for solid-state battery materials”. Umicore’s involvement in this field comes as no ...

CATL is planning two lithium plants in Bolivia

The Chinese battery giant CATL plans to invest €1.27 billion to develop Bolivia’s large but largely untapped lithium deposits. And CATL has the backing of the Bolivian government to build two plants to extract lithium from brine. Bolivian President ...

Fortescue announces new facility in UK

Australian mining company Fortescue Metals Group is building a new battery and electric powertrain production facility in Oxfordshire, UK. The company says that it is thus “significantly expanding its UK manufacturing capability”. Specifically, the new factory will be located ...

Mazda may use Panasonic battery cells in future electric cars

Panasonic and Mazda today announced they have agreed to enter into discussions on establishing a medium- to long-term partnership for automotive batteries. The tentative language suits Mazda’s relatively relaxed approach towards electrification, yet the timeline also fits. Mazda said ...

Northvolt recieves US $400 million from Canadian firm IMCO

In Canada, the Swedish battery cell manufacturer Northvolt has garnered US $400 million in fresh capital from the Investment Management Corporation of Ontario (IMCO). The equivalent of 366 million euros is to be invested in expanding production but a ...

Basquevolt to produce first batteries before 2024

Basquevolt reports progress in the development of its solid-state battery cells. Before the end of this year, Basquevolt’s research and development centre is expected to produce the first 20 Ah cells suitable for use in electric vehicles. The company ...

ProLogium creates solid-state battery pack with higher energy density

The Taiwanese solid-state battery cell manufacturer ProLogium presented its new large-footprint lithium ceramic battery (LLCB) for the first time at the ees Europe trade fair in Munich. The first units will be delivered to European car manufacturers for testing ...

VW subsidiary PowerCo presents battery dry coating process

Volkswagen’s PowerCo now officially confirmed its intention to industrialise dry coating for electric car batteries. The plan was leaked a few days ago. At a media round table in Berlin, the company has now revealed further details. Volkswagen’s battery ...

Porsche takes over Cellforce and plans 20 GWh production

Porsche looks likely to produce high-performance battery cells on a much larger scale than previously planned. The German carmaker will no longer do so with its partner Customcells but on its own. The Cellforce Group, the battery joint venture ...

Fortum & Terrafame announce battery recycling partnership

Finnish companies Fortum and Terrafame are cooperating on recycling battery materials. Terrafame will use the raw recycled materials from Fortum to produce battery chemicals, which will then be used in new batteries. The energy company and the mining company ...

OneD enters the European market, partly with Customcells

California’s battery developer OneD Battery Sciences has struck a strategic partnership with German battery manufacturer Customcells. The companies have agreed to develop and deliver BEV prototype cells to a global automotive OEM. And, OneD is setting up shop in ...

Recirculate introduces business models for circular battery economy

The new Recirculate project aims to create new business models for the repair, reuse and recycling of second-life batteries. Eleven companies are involved in the €4.9 million EU-funded project, which started this month. The consortium will work for three ...

Nyobolt demonstrates 6-minute fast charging technology

Nyobolt demonstrated a charging process in which a vehicle with a 35 kWh battery was fully charged in less than six minutes. The corresponding battery technology is to be scaled up next year. The British battery developer is demonstrating ...

JLR to source battery cells from Agratas

JLR will rely on cells from Indian battery company Agratas for its future electric cars, as the carmaker has now announced to investors. Agratas is a subsidiary of JLR’s parent company Tata, which had recently announced a battery cell ...

GM & Samsung SDI battery cell factory to be built in Indiana

General Motors and Samsung SDI have now announced details of their planned battery cell factory. The factory is to be built in the US state of Indiana. The companies had already announced their plans in April. At that time, ...

Dürr acquires BBS Automation

The machinery and plant manufacturer Dürr announces the acquisition of the automation specialist BBS Automation at a price between 440 million and 480 million euros. Dürr intends to grow in the field of electromobility, among other things, in this ...

Ballard to scale next generation of bipolar plates in 2025

Canadian fuel cell specialist Ballard Power Systems has outlined how it plans to scale next-generation bipolar plate production and reduce costs in the process. Bipolar plates are the second largest cost factor in FC stacks after membrane electrode assemblies ...

VW, Stellantis & Glencore invest in Brazilian mines

Volkswagen, Stellantis and the mining company Glencore support the purchase of two mines for battery raw materials in Brazil by the financial company ACG. The latter wants to buy a nickel sulphide and a copper mine for one billion ...

Kore Power scores financial support from Washington

The US battery developer Kore Power has received a conditional commitment for a loan of 850 million US dollars from the US Department of Energy. The loan is intended to support the domestic production of battery cells for electric ...

BYD & Huaihai planning Na-ion battery factory in China

BYD is going to set up a production facility for sodium-ion batteries in China. In cooperation with the Huaihai Holding Group, BYD wants to become the world’s largest supplier of sodium battery systems for small electric vehicles. BYD’s battery ...

Toyota invests $50m in US battery lab

In the USA, Toyota is investing almost 50 million US dollars in a new battery laboratory. This will be built at the research and development headquarters in York Township and will go into operation in 2025. The investment illustrates ...

Ontario funds Li-Metal to develop lithium metal production technology

Li-Metal, a Canadian developer of lithium metal and lithium metal anode technologies for next-generation batteries, has been awarded over CAD$1.4 million (approx 975,000 euros) from the Government of Ontario to develop and commercialise its lithium metal production technology. The ...

Ascend Elements announces major battery material order

The US company Ascend Elements, which specialises in sustainable battery materials, reports a major order worth up to $5 billion. The order is worth around $1 billion and will deliveries are expected to start at the end of the ...

Livista announces plans for lithium refinery in Germany

The Luxembourg-based company Livista Energy Europe is planning a lithium refinery in Germany. This is to go into operation in 2026 and produce up to 40,000 tonnes of battery-grade lithium products per year – enough for the batteries of ...

AESC kicks off construction of battery plant in South Carolina

Battery cell manufacturer AESC (formerly Envision AESC) has begun construction of its new factory in the US state of South Carolina, which will supply BMW with cylindrical cells in the future. Announced in December 2022, the production facility in ...

AVL presents new battery cell test system ‘TS ACORA’

AVL presents the new AVL Battery Cell TS ACORA system. This is intended to examine the behaviour of battery cells under different climatic conditions and operating states. The system is suitable for both prismatic and pouch cells. The AVL ...

Forsee introduces ‘Flex-Plus’ battery for heavy vehicles

The French battery manufacturer Forsee Power presented the ‘Flex Plus’ new battery system for equipping heavy electric vehicles such as buses, trucks and off-road vehicles. Only a month ago, the company presented a battery system for medium-sized trucks and ...

LGES to source graphite anode material from Novonix

South Korean battery manufacturer LG Energy Solution (LGES) and US battery materials company Novonix have signed an agreement to develop artificial graphite anode material for lithium-ion batteries. A supply contract could follow soon. LGES says it has been in ...

Schuler and partners begin ENLARGE battery value chain project

In Germany, the official go-ahead has been given for the project called “ENLARGE – Interoperable Production as Enabler for a Data-Driven Battery Value Chain.” The project, involving the collaboration of German and European institutes, companies and universities, aims to ...

MG Motor India & Lohum form battery material supply loop

MG Motor India has joined forces with Indian reuse and recycling company Lohum to establish a comprehensive ecosystem for the reuse and life cycle management of EV batteries. Under the collaboration, Lohum will reuse batteries from MG electric vehicles ...

GM & Posco invest in CAM production capacities in Canada

General Motors and Posco are making an additional investment of more than US$1 billion as part of their Ultium CAM joint venture to increase the production of cathode active material (CAM) for electric car batteries in North America with ...

Gotion considers building battery factory in Morocco

Chinese battery cell manufacturer and Volkswagen partner Gotion High-Tech is looking into building a large battery cell factory in Morocco. It is still unclear what the timetable will look like for the construction or production launch. A letter of ...

Tata Group to build battery factory in Gujarat

The Tata Group wants to invest 130 billion rupees (just under €1.5 billion euros) in the construction of a new battery cell factory in the Indian state of Gujarat. Construction of the factory is to begin there in three ...

Quantron takes over Eyes Group in Italy

The German company Quantron, which specialises in the electrification of vehicles, is expanding into Italy. Quantron is acquiring the subsidiary Eyes Group from the Italian company Friem and will establish its own subsidiary Quantron Italy. According to Quantron, Friem ...

Bosch takes over fuel cell production for PowerCell

Bosch is taking over the production of the S3 fuel cell stack for PowerCell. Under the new agreement, Bosch will integrate the S3 into its own production facilities in Germany and deliver finished 100 kW stacks to PowerCell’s plant ...

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