China turns retired EV batteries and solar cells into $38 billion recycling boom. https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02o228ieBf25hirnxtU9BsEyAjDGjgcF7fdiErKqHau4w117e3MjPFRSrDKwphr9grl&id=100064499750520&post_id=100064499750520_pfbid02o228ieBf25hirnxtU9BsEyAjDGjgcF7fdiErKqHau4w117e3MjPFRSrDKwphr9grl&mibextid=Nif5oz
Archive for the ‘LMFP’ Category:
2024-05-12 Giant Batteries Are Transforming the Way the U.S. Uses Electricity
This link to the article is supposed to be free, and *not* behind a paywall. This well-researched article is a good article, with some statements that are disputable. One example is that they state that lithium batteries are flammable. The LFP cells now used in battery storage systems are low to not flammable. There are
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2024-04-14 Green Li-Ion Recycled Battery Plant In Oklahoma
North America just got a new recycled Li-ion battery materials plant
2024-03-17 Top Three Battery Chemistries Coming To EVs
This article gives good explanations of how batteries are made and what advantages and disadvantages they have. The top three battery chemistries coming soon to EVs – and none of them are solid-state
2024-03-13 How Lithium Batteries Are Recycled
A YouTube short of how lithium batteries are recycled.
2024-03-04 EV Battery Prices To Fall 40% By 2025
The graph shows the battery prices fell substantially since last year. “”So EVs will be cheaper than ICEVs in 2025…””
2024-03-01 CATL, BYD To Slash Battery Prices by 50% in 2024
The battery is the most expensive piece of an EV, so lower costs will reduce the COGS – cost of goods sold, thus the consumer will be able to get an EV for even less. This makes the EVs more competitive with gas guzzlers. It will also make the $25,000 EV easier to build. CATL,
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2023-10-24 Renewables Article Full Of Lies & Hypocrisy!
Andreas Lindström This “realclearinvestigations” article is full of lies and hypocrisies. Quote from article:“”Hyped as technological marvels, EVs are boobytrapped with a host of inconveniences and tradeoffs. By now many people have heard about range anxiety, exploding lithium-ion batteries, and the environmental destruction caused by global mining for battery minerals.”” Last first. The amount of
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2023-10-23 Long Duration Battery Energy Storage System – Tumbleweed Project
Almost every BESS – battery energy storage system – that I read about has a maximum storage of 4 hours. This Tumbleweed Project is a BESS but has 8 hours. I don’t see why the other BESSes are not capable of running at lower power for more than 8 hours. I have this suspicion that
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2023-09-14 Black Mass Matters! The New Black Gold
The black mass is the concentrated lithium and other metals left when lithium EV batteries are recycled into their parts. This black mass is then processed along with other raw materials to make new batteries. There are these Chicken Littles who say that EV batteries are too expensive, then contradict themselves by saying the EV
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