It’s well known that over the past decade, China has pretty much dominated the lithium-ion battery supply chain. It controls the supply of lithium as a raw material and virtually every step in the supply chain that goes into making that lithium suitable for making EV batteries. Why China has … [continued]
Britishvolt recently signed an agreement with Posco Chemical Co. Ltd., a provider of energy/battery materials, to secure a stable supply of anode and cathode active materials. The MoU is one of a number of agreements recently signed by Britishvolt to meet its demand for high volume material supply for pilot … [continued]
Originally posted on EVANNEX. by Charles Morris You can’t build EVs without batteries, as Elon Musk acknowledged years ago when he announced plans to build the first of Tesla’s Gigafactories (and coined a new word). Musk and others have estimated that the world will need several dozen battery gigafactories once EVs begin … [continued]
Originally published on Transport & Environment. By Paul Bell The EU and the UK risk wasting €27bn in battery investments if they fail to strengthen car and van CO2 emission standards, analysis from Transport & Environment (T&E) shows. While investors have poured billions into the battery industry, and Europe is set … [continued]
Britishvolt will apparently build a 30 gigawatt-hour (GWh) battery “gigaplant”/gigafactory in Wales. It will be powered by a 200 megawatt (MW) solar power plant.
