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“Digitalisation of Batteries for Smart Energy and Transport Systems” – Workshop summary

Batteries Europe, ETIP SNET – Smart Networks for the Energy Transition and EGVIA – The European Green Vehicles Initiative Association co-organised earlier this week a workshop on “Digitalisation of Batteries for Smart Energy and Transport Systems”, initiative also supported by the European Commission. We present below a summary of the event. Digitalisation is without doubt […]

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Looking up North: Finland is hot news for building up Europe’s supply chain capacities

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Last week the British chemical company Johnson Matthey has announced its ambition to build a new factory for the production of its nickel-rich eLNO cathode materials in a strategic partnership with Finnish Minerals Group (FMG) in Finland. The plant will be designed for an annual output of 30,000 tonnes of cathode material and construction is

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MRC enters MOU with Superior Graphite

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With the ever-increasing demand of EVs and other sorts of battery applications, the need to assure access to raw materials and its processing becomes increasingly important. EIT InnoEnergy has identified that EU’s upstream raw material supply and processing capacity needs to accelerate if we compare to the actual development. And even though several plans for

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The European Battery Alliance – a role model for creating strategic industrial value chains

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Only a few years ago, Europe was basically non present in the battery value chain. Today, Europe has made dramatic progress in establishing a credible battery value chain following the launch of the European Battery Alliance in October 2017, as we have been regularly reporting on this website. We have recently noticed that the model

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Addressing skills gap: EBA Academy ready to launch

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Following the 5th high-level ministerial meeting of the European Battery Alliance that took place on March 12th, Commission Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič tasked EIT InnoEnergy to launch the EBA Academy. Addressing the emerging skills gap has been indeed identified as critical to success since it is estimated that Europe will need approximately 800.000 qualified workers to

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Extremadura hosts southern Europe’s first battery cell factory project

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Phi4tech, together with the regional President of Extremadura and the General Secretary for Industry in Spain, has formally announced in a press conference – on the 24th of March, 2021 – the first integrated battery project in Southern Europe, which includes in the same region, a lithium extraction and refining project – Lithium Iberia -,

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Senior Technology Material invests €250 million in Sweden

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Shenzhen Senior Technology Material announces today its plan to invest 250 million euros until 2025 to establish a production facility at Svista industrial estate in Eskilstuna, Sweden. The facility will be one of Europe’s largest factories of its kind and will supply Northvolt with separator film for lithium-ion batteries. Shenzhen Senior Technology Material Co., is

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Boosting European EV battery raw material supply chain with support of high-purity manganese project

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This week, EIT InnoEnergy announced its support of Euro Manganese’s Czech-based Chvaletice Manganese Project, helping fulfil ambitions to create a competitive and sustainable battery cell manufacturing value chain in Europe. In addition to an initial investment of €250k, EIT InnoEnergy will help Euro Manganese secure financing for full-scale commercial development up to €362m for the

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E-Mobility has won the race: Reflections on VW’s Power Day

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Yesterday, Volkswagen presented their technology roadmap for the battery and charging sectors up to 2030 at its Power Day, an event that clearly found its inspiration from the Tesla “Battery Days” last December. The event was however not a mere copy but a presentation of concrete plans of the that will have an enormous effect

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New EV targets for the European car industry fuel the battery industry

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2020 was a remarkable year in many ways. Despite the pandemic and an overall declining automotive market, electric vehicles (EVs) market shares increased from 3.0% in 2019 to 10.5% in 2020 measured on an annual base. In Q4 EVs sales even reached 16% of all car sales. As a result, Europe overtook China’s position as

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