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China is central to all EV and renewable supply chains

From the New York Times nytimes.com Red Flags for Forced Labor Found in China’s Car Battery Supply Chain By 13-16 minutes The electric battery assembly area of an auto parts factory in Hangzhou, China. Many goods produced using forced labor appear to flow into China’s vast ecosystem of factories. Credit…Qilai Shen/Bloomberg Ties to potentially coercive […]

Recycling is being automated via computer vision aided robotics

From the IEEE magazine https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-guided-robots-are-ready-to-sort-your-recyclables ” We have to do better than that. Right now, the recycling industry is facing a financial crisis, thanks to falling prices for sorted recyclables as well as policy, enacted by China in 2018, which restricts the import of many materials destined for recycling and shuts out most recyclables originating […]

Nature Materials: that the difference in the charge-discharge operating voltage leading to low energy efficiency is due to long-lived kinetically hindered intermediate species of nickel.

From Nature Materials https://techxplore.com/news/2022-06-chemists-pin-energy-losses-high-capacity.html https://www.nature.com/articles/s41563-022-01278-2 ” “During the charge-up of a Li-ion battery, positively charged lithium cations leave their sites in the cathode material structure and then settle back in when the battery is discharged. For the cathode material to remain electrically neutral, it should release or take in the same number of electrons. Our […]

Toyota will be recycling batteries with redwood materials

From the Verge https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/21/23177039/toyota-redwood-materials-ev-battery-recycling-partnership-prius “Toyota is partnering with Redwood Materials, a battery recycling company helmed by Tesla co-founder JB Straubel, to collect and recycle vehicle batteries. The plan is to take old, worn-out batteries and either refurbish them or break them down so their materials can be used to create new batteries. Redwood specifically plans […]

QuantumScape Revolutionary Solid State battery is here!

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a40230247/solid-state-batteries-electric-vehicles/ From Popular Mecanics – “QuantumScape claims that you will be able to buy an Audi or Volkswagen with its batteries as soon as 2024, a vehicle that can go nearly 400 miles on a single charge, then recharge in 15 minutes. That capability would grant solid-state EVs a huge advantage over their competitors, which […]

Battery GST will come down to 5% to make it in line with EV GST rates

https://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/gst-council-may-bring-rate-on%E2%80%8A-lithium-batteries%E2%80%8A-on-par%E2%80%8A-with-%E2%80%8Aevs-report-122060900371_1.html At present, e-vehicles are taxed at 5 per cent, while lithium-ion batteries are taxed at 18 per cent.

From Livemint: Monopoly and battery swapping

“Adhering to a single standard specification may lead to monopoly, stifle innovation The Dept of Science and Tech and the Bureau of Indian Standards are formulating battery specifications, standards NEW DELHI : Several companies in India’s organized battery swapping industry have opposed the proposal for a single standard specification for swappable electric vehicle batteries, claiming […]

Brian Gitt on chasing utopian renewable energy ideas!

https://briangitt.com/chasing-utopian-energy-how-i-wasted-20-years-of-my-life/Quoting :” I started to realize that I had accepted as true certain claims about energy and our environment. Now I began to see those claims were false. For example: I used to think solar and wind power were the best ways to reduce CO2 emissions. But the biggest reduction in CO2 emissionsduring the past […]