Boston-based lithium metal battery technology company Pure Lithium has acquired the assets of private US vanadium cathode materials company Dimien. The purchase aims to accelerate the development and commercialization of Pure Lithium’s lithium metal vanadium (LVO) battery. Dr. Brian Schultz, Dimien founder and CEO, will become Pure Lithium’s VP of Business Development and Technology, and… Read more »
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Lyten to build lithium-sulfur battery gigafactory in Nevada
Lithium-sulfur batteries, which feature high energy density, and don’t need problematic minerals such as nickel, cobalt, manganese and graphite, are widely seen as a possible replacement for today’s lithium-ion batteries. Lyten, which calls itself a “supermaterial applications company,” has long been a pioneer in Li-S technology. Now the company has announced plans to invest more… Read more »
H2020 SOLiDIFY consortium produces prototype solid-state lithium battery
The H2020 SOLiDIFY consortium, coordinated by Belgian research organization Imec, has developed a lithium-metal solid-state battery with high energy density. The prototype battery pouch cell, manufactured by Imec in the assembly lab at EnergyVille, Belgium, has a “liquid-to-solid” processed solid electrolyte, which was jointly developed by Imec and its 13 consortium partners. The cell has… Read more »
Arcadium Lithium buys Li-Metal IP and assets
Arcadium Lithium has acquired the lithium metal business of Li-Metal in an $11 million all-cash deal that includes the company’s intellectual property and physical assets related to lithium metal production, including a pilot production facility in Ontario, Canada. The acquisition is expected to provide a safer, lower cost and more sustainable process for lithium metal… Read more »
VW’s PowerCo to help produce QuantumScape solid-state battery cells
Volkswagen’s battery company PowerCo SE and US solid-state lithium metal battery developer QuantumScape have agreed to industrialize QuantumScape’s technology. QuantumScape’s platform is based on its solid-state ceramic separator, which enables the use of a pure lithium metal anode. Once certain technical milestones and royalty payments have been reached, QuantumScape will grant PowerCo a non-exclusive license… Read more »
Wildcat Discovery Technologies is building a US plant to produce next-gen LFP cathode and battery materials
Q&A with Wildcat President and CEO Mark Gresser. EV battery technology is advancing rapidly—it seems like every few days we read about a scientific breakthrough that will enable safer, cheaper, smaller and more energy-dense batteries. However, the road from the lab to the auto dealership is a long one—it typically takes several years of testing… Read more »
Factorial delivers B-samples of solid-state battery cells to Mercedes-Benz
US-based Factorial Energy, which is developing solid-state battery technology for EVs, has delivered B-samples of its 106+ Ah lithium-metal solid-state battery cells to Mercedes-Benz as part of the companies’ ongoing joint development agreement. The cells use Factorial’s Factorial Electrolyte System Technology (FEST) platform, which includes a lithium metal anode and delivers specific energy of 391… Read more »
Addionics and IL Science to develop lithium-metal EV batteries
Israel-based battery technology provider Addionics has agreed to form a partnership with US-based IL Science to integrate lithium metal with next-generation copper current collectors to drive adoption of lithium-metal batteries for EVs. By combining Addionics’ 3D Current Collectors and IL Science’s lithium coating and treatment technologies, the companies aim to overcome the hurdles to widespread… Read more »
Lyten exceeds 90% yield in lithium-sulfur battery production
Lyten, a supermaterials application company, reports that its automated battery production line consistently exceeds 90% yield, confirming the viability of manufacturing its lithium-sulfur battery using a sulfur cathode and lithium metal anode. Converting lithium-ion equipment to produce lithium-sulfur batteries in Lyten’s pilot facility required six weeks. Lyten’s lithium-sulfur battery chemistry utilizes no N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (NMP) in… Read more »
Toray develops ion-conductive polymer membrane for batteries
Toray Industries, a Japanese performance chemical manufacturer, has developed an ion-conductive polymer membrane that it says delivers 10 times the ion conductivity of its predecessors. The new polymer membranes offer ion conductivity through hopping conduction. This mechanism enables lithium ions to traverse between interacting sites within polymer membranes, jumping across sites. The membranes remain non-porous…. Read more »