In July, BYD’s installed power battery volume was 6.4 GWh and its market share reached 16.2 percent, surpassing LG Energy Solution’s 11 percent and ranking second globally. In June, LG Energy Solution had a 16 percent share, higher than BYD’s 11.2 percent. However, from January to July, BYD’s global share remained lower than LG Energy …
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Australian lithium-ion battery manufacturer Energy Renaissance is on track to launch its ground-breaking “Renaissance One” Gigafactory in New South Wales coal country. The 4,500 square meters “Renaissance One” manufacturing plant, also at Tomago, will house more than 700 employees and initially produce up to 300MWh of batteries a year. The success of the pilot project, …
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Maxeon, which sells in Australia under the SunPower Maxeon brand, said a third-party study to assess the energy pay-back time (EPBT) for its Maxeon 3 panels had confirmed the energy produced over the technology’s lifetime far exceeds the energy required in its production. The EPBT assessed the cumulative energy demand (CED) over all the life …
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A team of researchers from Deakin University’s Institute for Frontier Materials (IFM) has used computer modeling and simulations to progress the design of a new type of solid-state polymer electrolyte, showing its potential use in various types of polymer-based solid-state batteries, particularly sodium and potassium batteries. New research, published in the journal Nature Materials, suggests …
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For decades, the United States was the largest producer of lithium. Now with the Great Salt lake’s two largest mineral companies ramping up to harvest one of the world’s hottest commodities — lithium — bits of the Great Salt Lake soon could be found in your phone, laptop and car battery.
In Germany, Tesla continues to focus on battery production. Battery production in Texas is to be ramped up sooner than planned, but in at Giga Berlin in Grünheide later than planned. The company made this clear to partners in the Grünheide region near Berlin on Friday.
Tesla has updated the Megapack and it will be able to store more energy in a single battery system. Power & Energy will be 970 kW / 3,878 kWh per Megapack and Round Trip Efficiency of 93.5%. Tesla said that the energy capacity is 2.6 MWh in a single Megapack.
Xin Li, along with Fred Hu, William Fitzhugh, and Luhan Ye, all Ph.D. recipients at Harvard, founded Adden Energy in 2021. The startup was launched last year to help develop palm-sized pouch cells for various applications including electric vehicles. This solid-state cell could help improve affordability, availability, and the overall EV market share.
Scientists at ANSTO together with Lithium Australia Limited (LIT) have developed a world-first technology to extract more lithium from lithium mining waste. The new technology enables the majority (>95%) of the lithium value to be recovered with vastly reduced energy inputs as compared to conventional processing. Innovation like this puts Australia in a good position …
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Argonne researchers have made another breakthrough with the NMC cathode. Their team developed a method for producing boundary-free single crystals. Testing of small cells with such single-crystal cathodes at very high voltage showed a 25% increase in energy storage per unit volume, with almost no loss of performance over 100 cycles of testing.