US battery technology company Pure Lithium has been awarded funding from the US Department of Energy (DOE)’s Vehicle Technology Office to scale production of lithium metal anodes from recycled lithium metal, in partnership with Argonne National Laboratory (ANL). Pure Lithium will work with ANL to recover lithium metal from waste streams. It will demonstrate and… Read more…

C-BATT, a joint venture between US lithium-ion battery components producer X-BATT and carbon and graphite products manufacturer CONSOL Innovations, has developed its US-sourced Obsidia high-capacity battery anode material, which is designed to increase battery energy density and cycle life. Silicon-carbon-based Obsidia and its blends hold more lithium per gram than graphite. In addition to its… Read more…

Microgrids are the coming thing in EV charging—incorporating battery storage can mitigate the need for high-power grid connections, making installations quicker and cheaper. ElectricFish has launched a new, fully redesigned version of its microgrid-based EV charger. Called the 350Squared, the system features battery integration and a proprietary power electronics design that the company says delivers… Read more…

Curbside EV charging is the solution to the problem of EV drivers who aren’t able to install chargers at their homes. It’s a red-hot field, and one of the companies targeting this market is Voltpost, which makes an EV charging platform that can be retrofitted to existing lampposts. Now Voltpost has been selected by Connecticut’s… Read more…

Avery Dennison Performance Tapes has introduced a new EV Battery Venting Materials Portfolio to help counter the risk of thermal runaway and increase safety in EV batteries. These venting solutions include single- and double-coated anisotropic filmic tapes with proprietary fire-barrier coatings and pressure-sensitive adhesives (PSA) for bonding. EV battery manufacturers implement venting strategies at the… Read more…

The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) has awarded $2.9 million to 29 community-led projects to enhance planning for shared electric transportation solutions in New York, through the state’s $32-million Clean Mobility Program. Each of the awarded project teams will receive $100,000 to conduct feasibility studies on local transportation options including shared… Read more…

Canadian producer Northern Graphite is supplying samples of three standard battery anode material (BAM) products, as well as its Porocarb material, to manufacturers of lithium-ion and solid-state batteries. Northern’s demonstrator grades, produced using graphite from the company’s Lac des Iles (LDI) mine in Quebec acquired in 2022, are engineered to drive battery performance and meet… Read more…

Battery manufacturer LG Chem plans to start mass production of precursor-free battery cathode materials in South Korea in the first half of this year. LG Chem produces its LG Precursor Free (LPF) materials by directly calcinating custom-designed metals without precursors, improving power performance at low temperatures and shortening development time. The company plans to expand… Read more…

Lithium Americas has received a strategic investment of $250 million from funds managed by Orion Resource Partners, a global investment firm focused on metal and materials projects, for the development and construction of Phase 1 of the Thacker Pass lithium project in Humboldt County, Nevada. The target for completion of Thacker Pass Phase 1 is… Read more…

Battery safety is the foundation of electric vehicle reliability, and even the smallest defect can have massive consequences. Successive Chevy Bolt battery recalls, impacting over 140,000 vehicles and costing GM nearly $2 billion, underscore the urgent need for better inspection methods. Traditional quality control techniques can miss internal defects or fail to catch subtle inconsistencies… Read more…

Chinese automaker BYD has announced an ultra-fast EV charging system that it says can deliver a full charge to its latest EV models within five to eight minutes, similar to the amount of time needed to fill a fuel tank with gas. The company says its one-megawatt flash chargers can provide enough energy for nearly… Read more…

UK battery recycling firm Altilium has agreed to supply Australia-based battery anode and advanced materials company Talga with graphite for use in EV battery products. Under the agreement, Altilium proposes to supply Talga with up to 16,000 tonnes of recycled graphite over three years starting in 2026. Talga is building a natural graphite anode refinery… Read more…

Cumulative utility-scale battery storage capacity in the US exceeded 26 GW in 2024, according to the January 2025 Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory published by the Energy Information Administration (EIA). Generators added 10.4 GW of new battery storage capacity in 2024, the second-largest generating capacity addition after solar. Even though battery storage capacity is growing… Read more…

Japanese petroleum company Idemitsu Kosan plans to construct a large-scale production facility for lithium sulfide, an intermediate raw material for the mass production of all-solid-state battery materials The company will expand its lithium sulfide production capacity to the equivalent of 3 GWh of storage batteries annually and establish an integrated value chain from raw materials… Read more…

Paired Power makes a microgrid-based EV charging solution that includes solar electricity generation and battery storage. The company recently installed one of its PairTree charging stations at Playfields Park in Davis, California—the second charging station that Paired Power has sold to the city. The PairTree system’s solar integration saves energy and enables off-grid operation, providing… Read more…

Electric buses have now been around long enough for transit agencies to have a good handle on the fuel and maintenance savings they can expect, and pilots are giving way to volume orders. In a recent article from CleanTechnica, Michael Barnard takes us on a tour of Canada to look at some of the electric… Read more…

The vast majority of EV traction motors must be supplied with sinusoidal 3-phase alternating current with the frequency proportional to RPM, and the overwhelmingly favorite way to do this is with a triple half-bridge voltage source inverter, or VSI. In this topology, each bridge switch can connect its output terminal (i.e. motor phase winding) either… Read more…

Micromeritics Instrument, which supplies analytical instrumentation for the characterization of particles, powders and porous materials, is collaborating with the Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology (ICT) on education and training for scientists and engineers. The partnership aims to accelerate the development of novel materials critical for clean technology applications, including thermochemical heat storage systems, electrolysis, fuel… Read more…

Research at the Battery and Power Electronics Research Group at Teesside University has found that embedding accelerometers to track vibration intensity and frequency into battery management systems (BMS) can detect early signs of battery degradation allow parameters to be adjusted accordingly. The research team, led by Professor Maher Al-Greer, Doctor Imran Bashir, and Khursheed Sabeel,… Read more…

Volt Carbon Technologies and Charge CCCV (C4V) have announced successful test results from Volt’s lithium metal electrolyte paired with C4V’s advanced biomineralized lithium mixed metals phosphate (BMLMP) cathodes, and Volt’s dry separated graphite paired with C4V’s Green Anode technology. The combination of Volt’s lithium metal electrolyte and C4V’s BMLMP cathodes achieved enhanced energy density that… Read more…