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…

Norwegian battery materials company Vianode has received a letter of interest (LOI) from Euler Hermes, the German export credit agency, indicating that it is eligible in principle for a loan guarantee of up to $300 million for the planned development of a large-scale synthetic graphite plant. Vianode’s North American facility is designed to have an… Read more…

EV charging reliability as a service: Q&A with ChargerHelp CEO Kameale Terry. It’s not news to Charged readers (or anyone who makes EV road trips) that public charging has a reliability problem. But whose problem is it? Many of the entities that installed public EV chargers over the last decade (businesses, municipalities, utilities) appear not… Read more…

German automotive parts manufacturer Herrmann Ultrasonics has opened its newest tech center and laboratory in Monterrey, Mexico. The 1,600-square-foot facility will support collaborative development of customized solutions tailored to specific manufacturing needs. It will also provide access to ultrasonic welding machines, such as the HiQ series, which combine the flexibility of custom machines with the… Read more…

Testing by UK defense technology company QinetiQ indicates that lithium manganese iron phosphate (LMFP) cathode active material developed by UK battery materials producer Integrals Power could increase EV range by extending the useable capacity of the battery under high discharge conditions. Conventional lithium iron phosphate (LFP) chemistries experience a reduction in useable capacity when the… Read more…

EV charging network operator ChargePoint has opened five new DC fast charging sites in upstate New York. The sites are supported by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), and are located in Cortland, Waterloo, Lake Placid, Niagara Falls and Ripley. Drivers can find, use and pay for charging at these locations… Read more…

Elevated Materials is a newly formed independent company that aims to supply ultra-thin, uniform lithium films for batteries for EVs, eVTOLs and e-aircraft, energy storage systems and consumer electronics. The company’s technology can be applied across graphite, silicon and lithium metal anodes. The company has received investments from TPG’s Rise Climate fund and Applied Materials…. Read more…