Weekly Digest – August
10 October 2025

The BEPA Team has carefully selected some of this months news items to keep our community in the loop of the latest news from the battery ecosystem.

2 August

Insights & Studies

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  • Recycling or Second Use? Supply Potentials and Climate Effects of End-of-Life Electric Vehicle Batteries

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  • Solid Electrolyte Interphase in Sodium-Ion Batteries featuring Reza Younesi

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  • Constructing vertical Li+ transport “Highways” and interface regulation by Stefano Passerini et al.

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Members news

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  • cylib and Syensqo reach a milestone in lithium recovery from spent electric vehicle batteries

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EU Consultations

  • EU legislation on Waste Batteries

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11 August

Major Acquisitions

  • Lyten to Acquire All Remaining Northvolt Assets in Sweden and Germany

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  • Li-Cycle has been acquired by Glencore Plc.

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Insights & Studies

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  • Interview with Robin Zeng (In Chinese)

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  • EU Competitiveness In Net-Zero Technologies: Insights From Patents And Economic ComplexityBY

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  • America’s Clean Energy Transition Will Continue Despite the One Big Beautiful Bill Act

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  • The Age Of Storage: Batteries Primed For India’s Power Markets

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  • Strong demand for Lithium Hydroxide Monohydrate (LHM) to Continue

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  • The Relationship Between Anode Silicon Content And Battery Cell Performance by Rory McNulty

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  • Multi-Agent-Network-Based Idea Generator for Zinc-Ion Battery Electrolyte Discovery by Francesco Ciucci et al.

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25 August

Insights & Studies

  • Mapping the European Patent Landscape in Li-ion Batteries by KnowMade

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  • LMR Cathode: A New Balance of ‘Cost and Performance’ by Sungrok Bang

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  • The Global Investments Powering China’s EV Push

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  • Lithium Supply Disruptions: Price Moves Without a Deficit

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  • Falling Battery Prices = More Electric Cars

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  • How Much CO2 Does Battery Production Really Emit?

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Ecosystem Developments

  • US Imports of Korean EV Batteries Boom as Tariffs Hit China

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  • Will A 3-Minute Battery Swap Beat A 5-Minute Charge For China’s EV Drivers?

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  • Cleantech Q2 2025 Investments Briefing

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  • Record Number of EVs Registered In Western Europe Across Last Quarter

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  • Nissan and LiCAP Announce Strategic Partnership to Develop and Scale Dry Electrode Technology for All-Solid-State Battery

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