Weekly Digest -August
29 August 2024
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.
📚Reports
- The Battery Mineral Loop by RMI –>https://lnkd.in/e2kbTKzk
- EVs, Hybrids Set to Exceed 50% of China Car Sales for First Time –>https://lnkd.in/ebzmDnHR
🔋 Industry Update
- Form Energy selected by the –> U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
to deploy an 85 MW/8500 MWh multi-day battery system in Maine –> https://lnkd.in/g7ZA2fRe - EBRD and EU to mobilise up to €100 million for critical raw materials investments –> https://lnkd.in/gx5rJy4g
- Group1 Unveils First Potassium-ion Battery in 18650 –> https://lnkd.in/g7n9WEsm
- Samsung SDI with first customer feedback on solid-state battery cells –> https://lnkd.in/eXJmnyvf
- AutoFlight and CATL sign a strategic investment and cooperation agreement https://lnkd.in/efjs-nda📹 Media
- Battery Breakthroughs –> https://lnkd.in/eugmcqpB
Reports & Studies of the Week
- IOP Publishing: Roadmap on multivalent batteries by Patrik Johansson & Prof. Dr. Maximilian Fichtner et al—> Link
- McKinsey & Company: The hard stuff: Navigating the physical realities of the energy transition –> Link
- U.S. investments in electric vehicle manufacturing (2024) –> Link
- Calendar Aging of Next Generation Batteries: A Trivial Issue or the Final Frontier? by Ankit Verma –> Link
- Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI : Battery recycling in Europe continues to pick up speed: Recycling capacities of lithium-ion batteries in Europe by Maximilian Stephan. Victor Trapp –>Link
- International Energy Agency (IEA) : Can government partnerships support responsible and reliable critical mineral supply chains? by Susannah Fitzgerald
- Rho Motion:The IRA, two years on, how has it performed? by Charles Lester –> Link
Members Updates
- Finnish Minerals Group – Suomen Malmijalostus Oy Keliber lithium project secures loan financing of up to 500 million euros –> Link
- Opening of the new Empa research campus –> Links
Media
- Hear the Battery Associates podcast with Sam Cooper on AI and Big Data in Battery Research
Strategy & Policy
- Norway’s path to sustainable battery development by Capgemini Norway: Analysis of the challenges and opportunities facing the Norwegian battery value chain Link —> https://www.capgemini.com/no-no/insights/research-library/norways-path-to-sustainable-battery-development/ Edel Sheridan, Siren Sundby , Capgemini Invent
- Mining waste: time for the EU to clean up by Transport & Environment (T&E) . Link—> https://www.transportenvironment.org/articles/mining-waste-time-for-the-eu-to-clean-up
- Raw Materials 2030 Manifesto by Eurometaux (European Metals Association) Link—> 2030 resilience manifesto.pdf (eurometaux.eu) Chris Heron
Project World
- European Commission Receives High Number Of Applications Responding To Call For Strategic Projects Under The Critical Raw Materials Act. Link—> https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/news/commission-receives-high-number-applications-responding-call-strategic-projects-under-critical-raw-2024-08-23_en
- Office of the Prime Minister, Norway officially inaugurates Europe’s first LFP battery gigafactory. Link—> https://news.morrowbatteries.com/pressreleases/jonas-gahr-stoere-prime-minister-of-norway-officially-inaugurates-europes-first-lfp-battery-gigafactory-3337609 Morrow Batteries
- UP Catalyst secures €4M in funding. Link—> https://upcatalyst.com/up-catalyst-secures-e4m-in-funding-to-reduce-europes-reliance-on-chinese-carbon-materials/
Off the Road
- Clean Aviation on Highlights 2023. Link—> https://www.linkedin.com/company/clean-aviation-joint-undertaking/posts/?feedView=all, https://www.clean-aviation.eu/media/publications/highlights-2023
- Bulgaria’s Ministry of Energy opens 3GWh tender for standalone energy storage. Link—> https://www.energy-storage.news/bulgarias-ministry-of-energy-opens-3gwh-tender-for-standalone-energy-storage/
From the Lab
- The Operation Window of Lithium Iron Phosphate/Graphite Cells Affects their Lifetime by jeff dahn . Link—>https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1149/1945-7111/ad6cbd/pdf
- Degradation of lithium-ion batteries under automotive-like conditions: aging tests, capacity loss and q-OCP interpretation by Gabriele Sordi Link—> https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2950264024000054?via%3Dihub DigiPrime
- Joint Project on Phosphate Recycling Starts at MEET Battery Research Center ter. Link—> https://www.uni-muenster.de/MEET/en/presse/news/Project_SuSyPhos.shtml