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GM’s sales success and new batteries are powering a comeback

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General Motors is showing the automotive world that its electric vehicle ambitions are more than just talk. The company has powered its way to become the second-largest seller of electric cars in the United States, unseating rivals like Ford and Hyundai. The good news comes despite serious financial headwinds, proving that a a clear strategy focused on volume sales now,… Read more…

ION invests in sintering furnace to accelerate solid-state battery production


Solid-state battery (SSB) technology developer ION Storage Systems (ION) has invested in a new pilot production ceramic sintering furnace at its Beltsville, Maryland facility. The new equipment is intended to increase ION’s annual ceramic production capacity by ~1,000 times and unlock the ability to rapidly scale to hundreds of megawatt-hours through future expansion. Sintering is… Read more…

Lucid Air gains access to Tesla Superchargers in the US this month, with a huge catch

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Today, Lucid has announced that its Air models are finally getting access to more than 23,500 Tesla Superchargers in the US starting on July 31. The Lucid Gravity has the NACS connector built-in, but the Air doesn’t – so, to access Tesla Superchargers you’ll need an adapter. As every other EV maker is doing, Lucid is providing just such an… Read more…

LG Energy Solution and Toyota Tsusho establish US battery recycling JV


Battery maker LG Energy Solution Michigan and Toyota Tsusho America have established Green Metals Battery Innovations, a joint venture (JV) company focused on battery recycling that will build and operate a preprocessing plant in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The new plant will handle preprocessing operations to extract black mass, which contains raw metals such as nickel,… Read more…