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Hyperdrive Innovation and Hitachi Rail to develop battery tech for trains
08/07/2020
Hyperdrive Innovation and Hitachi Rail are to develop battery packs to power trains and create a battery hub in the North East of England Hitachi Rail analysis estimates the potential market for Hyperdrive and Hitachi’s battery technology is over 400 trains. Powering up a British battery boom Hitachi starts work on all-electric 803s for East […]
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OPEN INNOVATION CHALLENGE
07/07/2020
Open innovation Challenge is organized in by the Innovation Network for Advanced Materials (INAM) THE BRIEF There is currently no battery on the market that can do justice to a cordless hair dryer. Either the drying performance is too low or the play time is too short to dry the hair completely. Therefore, the challenge is […]
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Clean energy progress after the Covid-19 crisis will need reliable supplies of critical minerals
20/05/2020
Minerals have played a critical role in the rise of many of the clean energy technologies that are widely used today – from wind turbines and solar panels to electric vehicles. But ensuring that these and other key technologies can draw on sufficient mineral supplies to support the acceleration of energy transitions around the world […]
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The others news
Commission approves €3.2 billion public support by seven Member States for a pan-European research and innovation project in all segments of the battery value chain
06/01/2020
+ Read moreThe European Commission has approved under EU State aid rules an Important Project of Common European interest (“IPCEI”) jointly notified by Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Sweden to support research and innovation in the common European priority area of batteries. The seven Member States will provide in the coming years up to approximately […]
EIT InnoEnergy invests €5.8m into Northvolt’s “mission critical” battery recycling plant
06/01/2020
+ Read moreOur TEESMAT partner Northvolt is to commercialise new lithium-ion recovery methods to support 2030 recycling targets. €5.8 million investment into Revolt programme InnoEnergy, with the support of the EIT and the European Union, has announced its €5.8 million investment into Northvolt’s “Revolt” programme. The programme, which will implement the latest discoveries in efficient materials recovery methods, will see the construction […]
Breakthrough Enables Full Recharge of an Electric Vehicle in 10-Minutes
+ Read moreElectric vehicle owners may soon be able to pull into a fueling station, plug their car in, go to the restroom, get a cup of coffee and in 10 minutes, drive out with a fully charged battery, according to a team of engineers. “We demonstrated that we can charge an electrical vehicle in ten minutes […]
On 20 November over 200 stakeholders from industry and academia had gathered in Brussels to discuss the BATTERY 2030+ roadmap draft
+ Read moreThe BATTERY 2030+ workshop ”Building the roadmap for inventing the batteries of the future” started with opening notes by Maroš Šefčovič, European Commission Vice-President in charge of the European Battery Alliance. ”I very much appreciate your forward-looking work under Battery 2030+. We need to mobilise the efforts of the European research community into future battery […]
A new concept to make environmentally friendly batteries possible
+ Read moreAluminum (Al) batteries are fundamentally a promising future post-Li battery technology. The recently demonstrated concept of an Al-graphite battery represents some significant progress for the technology, but the cell energy density is still very modest and limited by the quantity of the AlCl3 based electrolyte, as it relies on AlCl4‒ intercalation. For further progress, cathode materials capable […]
Battery Manufacturing In Europe
Is there a second chance?
+ Read moreEurope is aggressively moving to establish a lithium-ion battery (LIB) industry. Despite the chasm separating European companies from the leading industry incumbents, there are strong grounds for European players to establish themselves in the sector. To be successful, however, they must consider five strategic levers – and act now. A global shift away from fossil […]
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019 rewards the development of the lithium-ion battery
+ Read moreThis lightweight, rechargeable and powerful battery is now used in everything from mobile phones to laptops and electric vehicles. It can also store significant amounts of energy from solar and wind power, making possible a fossil fuel-free society. Lithium-ion batteries are used globally to power the portable electronics that we use to communicate, work, study, […]
It took Tesla just 168 working days to go from permits to a finished plant
04/11/2019
+ Read moreIn October, the State Grid Corp. of China opened the first transmission line to bring power to the TESLA’s Gigafactory. The government-run Xinhua News Agency reported that it had taken Tesla just 168 working days, about six months, to go from permits to hooking up the electricity to the brand new plant. “This is quite fast, even […]
