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Honda & SNAM expand battery recycling partnership

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Europe’s energy transition relies on creating a local, competitive and sustainable battery value supply chain to decarbonise its transport, power and industrial sectors. As battery volumes are forecasted to grow exponentially, reducing their manufacturing footprint is crucial. Circularity of the European lithium-ion battery industry is therefore high on the agenda, and flourishing. Various collaborations across […]

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The European industrial battery strategy boosts investments

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The leitmotif for building a competitive battery cell production in Europe has always been clear. Success can only be achieved with combined public-private efforts, initiatives and alliances along the value chain. Looking at the recent announcements, one could see evidence that the European industrial battery strategy is bearing fruits. A number of European sub-suppliers that

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The Li-ion battery powered transport sector is attracting and sustaining newcomers

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Recently published articles prove that the Li-ion battery powered transport sector continues to attract and sustain innovation, entrepreneurs and risk capital. The initiatives comes in various shapes and forms, as illustrated by these two exciting examples: Lilium – a German aviation company created in 2015 well on the way to launch a five seat all

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Battery industry development: Europe is gaining momentum

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The European Battery Alliance (EBA), launched by Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič in October 2017, intends to engage the European industry in seizing the opportunity brought by batteries – a core technology for enabling the energy transition. Whereas it could still be premature to assert that this political impulsion will effectively be translated into long-term socio-economic benefits

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Towards recycling battery materials

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Li-Cycle Corp., a North-America-based lithium-ion battery resource recovery company, announced that it has recently completed its first shipment of commercially recycled battery material. The first batch of recycled materials has been extracted at Li-Cycle’s facility in Ontario, Canada, and prepared for re-delivery. The materials are metals such as cobalt, nickel and lithium – an excellent

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Launch of LiPLANET project

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The LiPLANET project lays the foundation of the European network of research pilot lines for the production of battery cells. As part of the Horizon 2020 program, the European Commission is funding the LiPLANET project over the next two years to establish the lithium battery cell research pilot line network. The eight consortium partners are

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Batteries for electric cars: fact check and answers to the most important questions about electric mobility

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It is fundamental for the battery industry to understand the impact of the fast growing  European battery industry. Fraunhofer ISI has recently made a Policy Brief which was presented at the Battery Forum Germany in Berlin in January. The main conclusion is that there is nothing to prevent a broad market diffusion of electric cars between

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