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The Californian battery material specialist Sila Nanotechnologies has presented Titan Silicon, its anode material made of nanocomposite silicon (NCS). It is said to help electric vehicles achieve 20 per cent more range today – with the potential to double ...

Stellantis, Panasonic & BMW consider joint battery plant in the USA

Stellantis and BMW consider opening battery plants together with Panasonic in North America. According to American media, talks are already underway. Stellantis has already started building battery factories in North America: one with LG Energy Solution in Canada and ...

Tesla and CATL could build LFP plant in the US

Tesla and Chinese battery maker CATL are reportedly looking into building an LFP battery plant in the US. According to media reports, the US carmaker discussed the matter with US politicians to see how the US Inflation Reduction Act ...

CATL appoints new CEO for Europe

Mathias Hüttenrauch has been CEO of the European business of the Chinese battery cell manufacturer CATL since March. This is a position that did not exist at the company before. This is reported by the German publication Automobilwoche. And ...

USA & Japan sign trade agreement for battery resources

The US and Japan have signed a trade agreement on minerals for electric vehicle batteries. It allows Japanese car manufacturers broader access to the US market and subsidies there under the Inflation Reduction Act. Under the agreement, the countries ...

Ford to build 500,000 electric pickups per year in Tennessee

Ford plans to produce up to half a million all-electric pickup trucks at its BlueOval City plant in the US state of Tennessee in the future. According to the manufacturer, the construction of the electric vehicle and battery plant ...

EU and US could sign subsidy agreement

After the US and the EU announced in mid-March that they wanted to negotiate an agreement on critical minerals for electric car batteries, the US government now submitted a concept paper for a transatlantic raw materials partnership to the ...

VW starts battery plant construction in Valencia and plans third party sales

Volkswagen has now officially given the go-ahead for the construction of the second battery cell factory of its subsidiary PowerCo in Valencia. Volkswagen is also said to be considering stakes in raw material mines and the sale of its ...

Skoda to increase battery system production in 2023

Skoda will install another assembly line for MEB battery systems at its main plant in Mladá Boleslav this year, increasing production capacity to 1,500 units per day. The first assembly line went into operation there in May 2022. Mladá ...

EU Commission presents strategy to secure critical raw materials

The EU Commission is aiming for ten per cent of the EU’s demand for critical raw materials to be met from its own mining operations in 2030, 40 per cent from local processing and 15 per cent from EU ...

US and EU to coordinate EV incentive programmes

The US and the EU want to negotiate an agreement on critical minerals for electric car batteries, said US President Joe Biden and EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen after a meeting at the White House. The planned ...

EU loosens EV & battery subsidy requirements

The EU Commission has adapted state aid rules to simplify the approval of subsidies in key sectors such as batteries and renewable energies. The new rules are a reaction to the US government’s Inflation Reduction Act. The amendment gives ...

Honda & LG Energy Solution to build battery plant in Ohio

Honda and LG Energy Solution have begun constructing their joint venture battery cell factory in the US state of Ohio. The announced factory near Jeffersonville is expected to be operational by the end of 2025 with an annual production ...

Leipzig BMW plant prepares to produce the Mini

At the end of this year, the electric Mini Countryman is scheduled to roll off the production line at the BMW plant in Leipzig. According to the car manufacturer, preparations there are in full swing. In addition to the ...

Honda to source recycled battery materials from Ascend Elements

Honda has entered into an agreement in principle with US-based Ascend Elements to supply recycled battery materials for its electrified vehicles. Through the cooperation, Honda aims to secure a stable supply of nickel, cobalt and lithium from lithium-ion batteries ...

Eve Energy increases production capacities in Jingmen

The Chinese battery cell manufacturer Eve Energy, whose customers include BMW, has increased its production capacities in Jingmen in the Chinese province of Hubei by a total of 73 GWh with the commissioning of four sub-plants. Eve Energy will ...

BMW finds location for battery assembly plant in Bavaria

BMW has found and bought the plot for its battery assembly plant in Bavaria. The carmaker secured a 105-hectare area in the communities of Straßkirchen and Irlbach in Lower Bavaria, about 50 kilometres north of BMW’s largest European car ...

Valmet kicks off battery assembly in Germany

The Finnish supplier Valmet Automotive has started series production of battery systems in Kirchardt in Baden-Württemberg. Announced almost two years ago, the plant near Heilbronn now manufactures high-voltage systems for electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids and is the company’s ...

LiCORNE: Fully European lithium supply chain

The EU-funded project LiCORNE (Lithium Recovery and Battery Grade Materials Production from European Resources) aims to set up the first complete European supply chain for lithium processing resources available in Europe. More specifically, the LiCORNE partners will work to ...

Redwood starts manufacturing anode copper foil

The recycling company Redwood Materials, founded by former Tesla CTO JB Straubel, has started producing anode copper foils. In addition, Redwood has received a conditional commitment from the US Department of Energy for a $2 billion loan for battery ...

Cenntro kicks off battery assembly in the USA and Germany

The Cenntro Electric Group, a company specialising in electric commercial vehicles, has started producing its own battery packs. These will be assembled at Cenntro’s plant in Freehold in the US state of New Jersey and at the German plant ...

BAK Battery announces plans for a new cell factory in China

The Chinese battery manufacturer BAK Battery is planning to build a factory for round cells with an annual capacity of 30 gigawatt-hours. According to the announcement, 13 billion yuan (about 1.8 billion euros) will be invested in the production ...

Toyota to manufacture hybrids and batteries in Turkey

Toyota will produce hybrid cars and batteries for them in Turkey in the future. The second-generation Toyota C-HR, which will be available as a hybrid and plug-in hybrid, will be manufactured in Sakarya. It will also be Toyota’s first ...

Proterra opens battery assembly plant in South Carolina

In the USA, Proterra has started assembly lines at its announced battery production facility in Greer, South Carolina. Battery systems for use in electric vehicles will be manufactured there immediately, with deliveries to customers scheduled to begin this quarter. ...

Sakuu hires Porsche to design battery gigafactories

Sakuu, a Californian developer of 3D-printed solid-state batteries, has commissioned Porsche’s consulting subsidiary Porsche Consulting to plan its targeted gigafactories worldwide. Sakuu currently operates two facilities in Silicon Valley. Sakuu says it plans annual production capacities of 200 GWh ...

BMW is planning battery assembly plant in Bavaria

BMW is planning to build a large assembly plant for high-voltage batteries in Bavaria. The carmaker confirmed the plan in essence, but has not yet signed all the contracts. If all goes as planned, the excavators should start rolling ...

Virginia decides against CATL-Ford battery factory

The US state of Virginia is taking itself out of the running for the factory being considered by Ford and CATL to produce LFP battery cells for electric cars. Specifically, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin has decided not to subsidise ...

GM & LG drop plans for fourth US battery factory

General Motors and LG Energy Solution are apparently not pursuing their plan for a fourth joint battery cell plant in the USA. GM could instead build the planned plant in Indiana with a new partner at its side. This ...

Eve Energy announces plans for 2 more battery factories in China

The Chinese battery cell manufacturer Eve Energy, whose customers include BMW, is preparing to build two new production facilities in China with an annual capacity of 20 and 23 gigawatt-hours – the latter will explicitly produce LFP batteries. But ...

Nikola to move Romeo battery production to Arizona

After acquiring battery maker Romeo Power last year, Nikola Motor is now relocating its battery production from Cypress, California, to Nikola’s own plant in Coolidge in the state of Arizona. The move is expected to be completed by mid-2023. ...

Recharge Industries to build battery cell plant in Australia

The US-Australian company Recharge Industries wants to build a large battery cell factory in Australia and has appointed Accenture as an engineering services provider to drive the project forward. At full capacity, the lithium-ion battery cell factory is expected ...

Nanotech to set up battery production the UK

The US battery manufacturer Nanotech Energy has announced its intention to build a gigafactory in the UK that could be worth up to one billion pounds. According to the company, seven sites are currently being examined for this purpose. ...

Tata considers building battery factory in Europe

The Indian Tata Group is considering building two factories for the production of battery cells, one in India and another in Europe. With the latter plant, the group would produce cells for Tata subsidiary Jaguar Land Rover. P.B. Balaji, ...

Ganfeng to reach 100 GWh annual capacity with two new factories

The Chinese lithium and battery producer Ganfeng Lithium is investing 15 billion yuan in two new battery factories to increase its production capacities by 34 GWh to around 100 GWh per year. Converted, the investment amounts to 2.2 billion ...

Statevolt settles on Imperial Valley for battery factory

Statevolt has completed its site search for the announced US battery cell factory and has already purchased a plot of land in California. The approximately 55-hectare land is located in the Imperial Valley near the lithium-rich Salton Sea. The ...

Verkor to source manganese in Czech Republic

French battery manufacturer Verkor, which is a partner of Renault, has signed a letter of intent with Canadian battery materials company Euro Manganese to source manganese for the production of vehicle batteries. A binding purchase agreement has yet to ...

VW raises investment sum in Spain

The Volkswagen Group and Seat are increasing their investment in e-mobility in Spain from the initially planned seven billion to ten billion euros. VW wants to invest the money not only in its own plants, but also in building ...

Bitterfeld-Wolfen is cancelling contract with Farasis

The planned battery cell factory of Daimler partner Farasis Energy in Bitterfeld-Wolfen (Saxony-Anhalt) is probably not going to happen. According to a media report, Bitterfeld-Wolfen has terminated the urban development contract with Farasis Energy Europe. The company has confirmed ...

ACC places major cathode order with Umicore

Materials technology and recycling group Umicore and the Automotive Cells Company (ACC) battery cell joint venture between Stellantis, Total and Mercedes-Benz have signed a long-term supply agreement for cathode materials in Europe. Umicore will supply high nickel cathode materials ...

BYD to build another 45 GWh battery factory in Guangxi

BYD has announced the construction of another battery factory in China. The new plant in Nanning, the capital of the Guangxi Autonomous Region in southern China, will produce battery cells and modules for both electric cars and stationary energy ...

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