{"id":351794,"date":"2026-04-13T11:03:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T11:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/us-battery-recycler-ascend-elements-files-for-insolvency\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T11:03:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T11:03:46","slug":"us-battery-recycler-ascend-elements-files-for-insolvency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/us-battery-recycler-ascend-elements-files-for-insolvency\/","title":{"rendered":"US battery recycler Ascend Elements files for insolvency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/04\/us-battery-recycler-ascend-elements-files-for-insolvency.jpg' alt='electrive'><br \/>After the Trump administration cut $316 million in funding for a battery recycling plant by Ascend Elements in Kentucky last fall, the startup has now filed for creditor protection. Ascend Elements will now undergo a restructuring process. <a href=https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/2026\/04\/13\/us-battery-recycler-ascend-elements-files-for-insolvency\/ target='_blank'>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the Trump administration cut $316 million in funding for a battery recycling plant by Ascend Elements in Kentucky last fall, the startup has now filed for creditor protection. Ascend Elements will now undergo a restructuring process&#8230;. <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/us-battery-recycler-ascend-elements-files-for-insolvency\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":351795,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}