Only a few years ago, Europe was basically non present in the battery value chain. Today, Europe has made dramatic progress in establishing a credible battery value chain following the launch of the European Battery Alliance in October 2017, as we have been regularly reporting on this website. We have recently noticed that the model […]
Following the 5th high-level ministerial meeting of the European Battery Alliance that took place on March 12th, Commission Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič tasked EIT InnoEnergy to launch the EBA Academy. Addressing the emerging skills gap has been indeed identified as critical to success since it is estimated that Europe will need approximately 800.000 qualified workers to
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Phi4tech, together with the regional President of Extremadura and the General Secretary for Industry in Spain, has formally announced in a press conference – on the 24th of March, 2021 – the first integrated battery project in Southern Europe, which includes in the same region, a lithium extraction and refining project – Lithium Iberia -,
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Shenzhen Senior Technology Material announces today its plan to invest 250 million euros until 2025 to establish a production facility at Svista industrial estate in Eskilstuna, Sweden. The facility will be one of Europe’s largest factories of its kind and will supply Northvolt with separator film for lithium-ion batteries. Shenzhen Senior Technology Material Co., is
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This week, EIT InnoEnergy announced its support of Euro Manganese’s Czech-based Chvaletice Manganese Project, helping fulfil ambitions to create a competitive and sustainable battery cell manufacturing value chain in Europe. In addition to an initial investment of €250k, EIT InnoEnergy will help Euro Manganese secure financing for full-scale commercial development up to €362m for the
Yesterday, Volkswagen presented their technology roadmap for the battery and charging sectors up to 2030 at its Power Day, an event that clearly found its inspiration from the Tesla “Battery Days” last December. The event was however not a mere copy but a presentation of concrete plans of the that will have an enormous effect
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2020 was a remarkable year in many ways. Despite the pandemic and an overall declining automotive market, electric vehicles (EVs) market shares increased from 3.0% in 2019 to 10.5% in 2020 measured on an annual base. In Q4 EVs sales even reached 16% of all car sales. As a result, Europe overtook China’s position as
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Today marks the 5th ministerial meeting of the European Battery Alliance. As a follow up of the high-level meeting with industrial key stakeholders representing all segments of battery the battery value chain, the Commission hosted today a ministerial meeting, chaired Commission Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič. The meeting was attended by Commissioners Thierry Breton, Nicolas Schmitt and
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We are proud to relay that on Tuesday was held a high-level meeting with EBA250 industry representatives to discuss the role the European Battery Alliance (EBA) in addressing the remaining major obstacles to developing a competitive, sustainable and resilient battery value chain in Europe. Organised and hosted by EIT InnoEnergy, the meeting was chaired by
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The new Biden administration has in one of the first Executive Orders “identified the importance of mitigating risks in the supply chain for large capacity batteries”. This underlines the importance of the strategy applied from the European Battery Alliance from day one to address the entire value chain for batteries. The ongoing pandemic has only