Battery Intelligence Briefing
Raw materials
- Increasing EV demand drives nickel to highest price since 2014
- Cobalt price surge 40% since December, setting course for deficit
- World’s largest nickel deposit to be developed in Tanzania
- Canada Silver Cobalt Works buys up battery materials potential
- Infinity to advance Spanish lithium project study with $12m
- Livent to supply BMW with lithium
- Albemarle to help lithium price recovery with flexible contracts
Pack technologies
- Hyliion unveils in-house battery module for heavy-duty vehicles
- DOE approves fast charging silicon anode pouch cells
- Taiheiyo Cement’s cobalt-free cathode speeds up EV charging times
- Graphite anode replacement increases battery capacity, cycle rate
- Li-ion energy storage capacity doubled with lead-based anodes
Supply
- Jaguar commits to going fully electric by 2025
- Toyota to launch pure EVs and plug-in hybrid in US this year
- Tesla to build first Indian EV manufacturing plant in Karnataka
- India requires 3.4 TWh more battery capacity by 2035 to power EVs
- Northvolt to expand Polish gigafactory to 12 GWh with $200m
- Sri Lanka to establish lithium-ion battery production enterprise
- Ford, VW plans at risk from US ban on SK Innovation batteries
- Hyundai may replace LG batteries in at least 100,000 recalled EVs
EV demand
- South Korean government to lower EV prices by $9,000 by 2025
- France to build national EV charging network with $121m
- Germany to require EV chargers in new and refurbished buildings
- Shell to deploy 500,000 EV chargers under carbon neutrality push
- Infinity-E to install 300 EVBox charging stations across Egypt
Charging technologies
- Usage of EV ultra-rapid chargers rising in UK as deployment grows
- Aral to expand Pulse EV charging network with 350 kW chargers
- EVs with 800 V systems achieve faster charging with lower weight
- Chakratec kinetic storage to power Premier Inn EV charger
- High-energy-density electrolyte additive boosts battery lifetime
Recycling
- Heritage, Romeo Power to develop US recycling facility
- INL lithium-ion battery recycling method offers 96% recovery rate
- Electric two-wheeler firm eBikeGo launches battery recycling push
- HSSMI to study retrofitting classic cars with used EV batteries
- South Korea partners Hyundai, LG, KST to reuse EV batteries
Alternative technologies
