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Biden Executive Order will put battery materials at heart of US climate technology leadership

Feb 26, 2021

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...

EIT InnoEnergy to support Chvaletice Manganese project

Feb 25, 2021

We are very pleased to relay the news from Euro Manganese on the Chvaletice project in Czech Republic. Euro Manganese and its wholly owned Czech Republic subsidiary, Mangan Chvaletice, have...

Feb 19, 2021

Swedish lithium-ion battery manufacturer Northvolt announced today its plan to establish Europe’s largest factory for energy storage solutions in Poland. This is yet another confirmation of the significance of the...

Batteries part of the recently approved Spanish Energy Storage Strategy

Feb 17, 2021

Last week, the Spanish government approved the energy storage strategy, targeting some 20 GW of storage capacity in 2030 and reaching 30 GW by 2050 from today’s 8.3 GW. In...

Spanish battery consortium unveiled to accelerate green economic recovery

Feb 11, 2021

Major Spanish industrial companies announced yesterday the creation of the Battchain consortium formed to respond to increasing demand for batteries. Battchain aims to accelerate Europe’s green economic recovery by expanding...

World’s biggest battery project to date to be implemented in Australia

Feb 9, 2021

Renewable energy fund CEP.Energy announced its plan to install a 1200MW battery in New South Wales, Australia, the largest grid-scale battery project ever intended worldwide. It is difficult to stay...

Bombardier (now Alstom) to replace diesel engines by Li-ion batteries on AGC trains

Feb 4, 2021

As highlighted by French and international press last week, the French National Railways SNCF takes a big step toward removing fossil fuel as an energy source for its fleet of...

Battery drive train for heavy-duty long-haul road transport

Feb 3, 2021

Scania's latest announcement shows that it is increasingly likely that battery drive train will be chosen for heavy-duty long-haul trucks. The Swedish manufacturer of heavy trucks and busses indeed decided...

SK Innovation’s announcement confirms Europe’s position as the global hotspot for the battery industry

Feb 2, 2021

Last week, at the launch of the second IPCEI on batteries, Vice-President Šefčovič declared Europe a global hotspot for battery investments as a result of the actions under the European...

FREYR to list on NYSE

Feb 1, 2021

As yet another sign of the growing European battery industry, FREYR A/S announced last week that it will become a publicly listed company on the New York Stock Exchange through...