The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding a combined $2.8 billion to 21 projects to expand domestic manufacturing of batteries for electric vehicles (EVs) and the electrical grid and for materials and components currently imported from other countries. (Earlier post.) Of that, $1.6 billion will go to 11 projects.
Vianode, a company owned by Elkem, Hydro and Altor, has decided to invest in its first industrial-scale plant for sustainable battery materials at Herøya in Norway.
The investment of around NOK 2 .
Researchers at Boise State University have developed a new approach to making novel lithium-ion battery materials. Starting from an amorphous, i.e., a material lacking long-range order, niobium ox .
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