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Redivivus and Re-New-Able team up to open Illinois battery recycling facility


US battery recycling technology firms Redivivus and Re-New-Able Technologies have partnered to establish a scalable lithium-ion battery recycling facility in Illinois. Re-New-Able is leading the project, using Redivivus’s Redi-Shred recycling technology. The facility will process batteries of any state of charge or health from local businesses and OEM factories. It will also support the state’s… Read more…

Kia EV5 is never coming to the US, but will be available in Canada

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Kia has just announced that, in North America, the EV5 will be exclusively available in Canada. So the US won’t ever see this model for some reason that unfortunately hasn’t been explained. The weirdness continues with the fact that the Canadian EV5 will ship with the NACS charging port built-in, thus it will have access to Tesla’s Supercharging network in… Read more…

Kempower and Sprocket Power collaborate to deploy EV charging infrastructure microgrids   


Finnish EV charger manufacturer Kempower has partnered with Sprocket Power, a New York-based energy management and EV integration company.  Using cloud-based facility management software, Sprocket Power microgrids integrate solar energy generation and battery storage to power EV chargers, reducing upgrade and utility costs. One of the first joint projects of the two companies will be… Read more…