IESW 2024: A comprehensive overview of India's battery recycling industry

The battery recycling panel, which was the concluding panel on Day 2 of IESW 2024. From left: Pratyush Sinha, Deepak Mohapatra, Bhupesh Verma, Dr ALN Rao and Dr Deepak Mishra.

The plenary session on Day 2 of the India Energy Storage Week 2024 deliberated on a matter of critical importance to the battery sector and to India: what happens after battery lif...

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Battery recycling company Lohum raises $54 million in Series B funding

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Battery recycling and reuse company Lohum Cleantech has raised ₹450 crore (about $54 million) as a part of its ongoing Series B round of funding, according to multiple media report...

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ACC, Circulor tie-up for supply chain, emissions mapping ahead of European battery passport rules

Battery manufacturing company Automotive Cells Co (ACC) and UK startup Circulor announced a partnership to verify the green credentials of raw materials that ACC uses to manufactur...

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South Korea announces $29 billion to help its battery companies 'reduce foreign dependence'

South Korea on Wednesday announced plans to provide $29 billion in financing over the next five years to strengthen its battery industry and reduce reliance on foreign nations for ...

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Daily Shorts: Lexus EV with 1,000 km range, Japan and Denmark tie up on offshore wind, and more

Toyota today unveiled a Lexus concept car with almost twice the driving range of conventional EVs. The LF-ZC concept car, based on advanced battery technology that Toyota has been ...

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IESW 2023: Battery reuse and recycling in India - What's holding us back?

With the rapid emergence of li-ion battery use in EVs and other applications in recent times, there is a strong demand for battery reuse and recycling in India. However, safe, effi...

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IESW 2023: Taking a grip of emerging Technological megatrends

The first day of the on-going India Energy Storage Week 2023 at New Delhi was tight-packed with technical forums latest and emerging technological developments in ba...

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Glencore, FCC, and Iberdrola partner on Lithium-ion Battery circularity solutions

To provide lithium-ion battery recycling solutions at scale for Spain and Portugal, mining firm Glencore, Spanish utility Iberdrola, and commercial waste management firm ...

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Gotion, Edison Power to cooperate on large storage batteries, recycling in Japan

Gotion High-tech and Edison Power Co. have recently entered into a strategic cooperation agreement to jointly develop large storage battery and recycling market in Japan, prom...

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Electra recovers Lithium from Battery Recycling trial, claims improved economics

Canadian firm Electra Battery Materials Corporation had recently announced the successful recovery of lithium, a critical mineral needed for the electric v...

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Enel X, MIDAC partner to develop Lithium Battery recycling plant in Italy

Enel X and MIDAC are engaging in R&D activities to build Italy's first major recycling plant for lithium batteries used in electric vehicles, industrial systems, and stationary...

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Ecobat to establish Lithium-ion Battery recycling facility in Arizona

Battery recycling company Ecobat has announced a new battery recycling plant in Casa Grande, Arizona to initially produce 10,000 estimated tons of recycled material per year, ...

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Gouach develops Repairable Battery packs for micro-mobility applications

French battery technology firm Gouach has launched four models of modular battery packs that is democratizing the repairability of batteries in the micromobility sector. ...

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MAN Truck & Bus working on resource-saving battery use and recycling

European commercial vehicle brand MAN Truck & Bus has revealed its post-usage strategy for its EV batteries. The company aims aim is to extend the life of its el...

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Kia Europe and Encore|DB join forces to re-use EV batteries in second life BESS

Kia Europe has announced plans to re-use former electric vehicle (EV) batteries in 'Second Life' battery energy storage systems as part of its global strategic focus on sustainabil...

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MoEF&CC notifies Battery Waste Management Rules, 2022

Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change, (MoEF&CC) Government of India has announced that it has published the Battery Waste Management Rules, 2022 to ensure enviro...

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Redwood Materials to invest $3.5 Billion on EV battery materials plant

Battery recycling firm Redwood Materials is planning to spend $3.5 Billion over the next ten years on a state-of-the-art EV battery materials plant in US state of Nevada, according...

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VWGoA, Redwood Materials collaborate to set up US EV battery recycling supply chain

Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (VWGoA) has announced that it has partnered with Redwood Materials, Inc. (Redwood) to create a supply chain to recycle Volkswagen and Audi electri...

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SiTration secures $2.5 million in pre-seed funding for EV batteries recycling

SiTration, the MIT spinoff pioneering new separation processes for materials extraction, has announced it has raised $2.35 million in pre-seed funding led by Azolla Ventures with p...

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Graphmatech, Graphenea, and Northvolt up-cycles recycled EV batteries into graphene oxide

Graphmatech, Graphenea, and Northvolt have announced their success in up-cycling end-of-life EV batteries into graphene oxide at an industrial pilot scale. This breakthrough uses t...

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Toyota, Redwood Materials to explore closed-loop EV Battery Ecosystem

As part of its commitment to reduce its environmental footprint year after year and achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, Toyota Motor North America has embarked on a mission to creat...

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BASF to build commercial scale battery recycling black mass plant in Germany

With an annual processing capacity of 15,000 tons of EV batteries and production scrap, BASF's newly announced commercial scale battery recycling black mass plant will of one of it...

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Cenntro Electric, Princeton NuEnergy enter strategic partnership LOI for LiB recycling

Cenntro Electric Group Limited and Princeton NuEnergy, Inc. have announced a strategic partnership Letter of Intent (LoI) for spent Lithium-ion battery feedstocks for recycled cath...

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Taniobis GmBH join HVBatCycle, VW-led battery-recycling tech research team

Taniobis GmbH and Partners have announced their alliance with the Volkswagen-led research team to advance battery-recycling technology. The HVBatCycle research consortium aims to p...

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National Metallurgical Lab, Pune-based Recy Energy ink LiB recycling pact

National Metallurgical Laboratory (NML) has announced that it has agreed with Recy Energy Pvt Ltd, Pune to transfer a breakthrough technology for the recycling of scrap, waste, and...

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BMW forms closed loop for recycling Ni, Li and Co from Eol batteries in China

The BMW Group is massively expanding its use of secondary material in closed recycling loops to achieve climate neutrality and sustainability. For the first time in China, the BMW ...

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Europe's largest EV battery recycling plant begins commercial operations

Hydrovolt's EV-battery-recycling-plant in Fredrikstad, Norway. Image courtesy: Northvolt

Hydrovolt, the joint venture between Swedish battery producer, Northvolt, and Norwegian industrial group, Hydro commenced the commercial recycling operations of its EV&nb...

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Action stations for a battery nation in the making

To speed up the shift towards energy storage, renewable energy, and EVs, PM Modi announced at COP26 a target of 500 GW of non-fossil fuel energy usage by 2030. The FAME II, the Aut...

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Glencore, Li-Cycle enter global strategic partnership for EV battery supply chain

Li-Cycle Holdings Corp. (Li-Cycle), the leading lithium-ion resource recovery and Li-ion battery re-cycler in North America entered a strategic partnership with Glencore Plc (Glenc...

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ERI partners with Call2Recycle, CellBlock FCS for OneDrum, innovative battery collection solns

Call2Recycle, California's first and largest consumer battery stewardship, and recycling program have announced the official launch of OneDrum™, the first mixed consumer battery co...

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