#China hits back at #US #tariffs w/ #RareEarth export controls
China placed some rare earth elements under export restrictions on Friday as part of its sweeping response to #Trump's tariffs, potentially cutting the US off from critical #minerals vital to everything from #smartphones to electric car #batteries.
#economy #geopolitics #inflation #recession
https://www.reuters.com/world/china-hits-back-us-tariffs-with-rare-earth-export-controls-2025-04-04/
Where are the cheapest raw materials for new batteries? The cost of finding extracting shipping new materials is part of building new EVs.
Porsche has found the cheapest source. Old batteries.
Brilliant.
"Porsche set to pilot closed-loop raw material EV battery recycling program"
Tesla is a brand built on good will and practically no competition. Now the good will has been spent and the competition is accelerating, raising new challenges for Tesla's in the energy storage business as well as its cars.
We had an emergency last night while cooking with our induction hob, when our battery box nearly caught fire as the interlink cables' connectors overheated and melted their insulation and burned into the tops of a couple of the batteries (not through to the inside though). I disconnected the batteries before the nasty smoke could turn to outright flames.
We finished our cooking on a camp fire.
We now have some new copper welding cable lugs on the 2AWG cables and power is back on.
We need some #Mutualaid to keep us out of overdraft trouble.
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Chinese automaking juggernaut BYD is taking things to even greater heights, now staking claim to a system it says will make it as quick to charge an electric vehicle as to refuel a gasoline car. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/03/18/tech/byd-five-minute-charging/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #byd #china #batteries #electricvehicles
Mercedes’s Most Affordable Sedan Will Be Electric - The German luxury carmaker said its latest compact sedan solves problems that have kept p... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/business/mercedes-cla-electric-vehicle.html #smallcars(compactsubcompactandmicrocars) #unitedstatespoliticsandgovernment #taxcreditsdeductionsandexemptions #electricandhybridvehicles #oil(petroleum)andgasoline #artificialintelligence #will.i.am(1975-) #republicanparty #fuelefficiency #mercedes-benz #batteries
Battery breakthrough as 99.99% of lithium extracted from old cells
New recycling method offers environmentally friendly way to deal with increasing e-waste from old smartphones and electric cars.
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/battery-recycle-lithium-ion-environment-b2713723.html
#lithium #batteries
Why are Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries bursting into the bigtime now?
Check out our video on it, here: https://youtu.be/3_NCnxO1KLY
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The European Commission is raising $20 billion to construct four "AI gigafactories," but some industry experts question whether it makes sense to build them. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/03/12/tech/europe-gigafactories-ai-industry/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #ai #semiconductors #eu #europe #netherlands #germany #batteries #electricvehicles #tech
Gravity batteries could unseat lithium ion batteries as industrial-scale excess storage w/o relying on rare earth elements:
#technology #energy #batteries
https://interestingengineering.com/energy/gravity-batteries-for-renewable-energy
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VideoVersion with very tiny batteries already Upgrades to 15kWh #LiFePo4 which lasts around 3 days
VERY IMPORTANT: work with cell vendor that accepts returns because #China likes to mix #gradeA and #gradeB and sell as #gradeA (#eve 280Ah)
"Labor backs household batteries in bid to win over voters on cost-of-living and climate worries"
Do you think these advances in recycling are moving us closer to the closed loop ideal?
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"“Usually markets speak pretty loudly, and the market is speaking very loudly that #batteries are not only quick to deploy, but serve the need better,” Lewin emphasized.
Gas peaker plants are called into action for just a few hours daily, to fulfill routine peak demand periods. Battery energy storage systems (BESS) can do the same thing, and they also provide additional efficiency, resiliency, and environmental benefits."
South Korea's tighter rules on carrying lithium batteries on planes highlight a growing risk to flights worldwide from the batteries used in cellphones and e-cigarettes that can malfunction to cause fires. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/03/03/tech/south-korea-lithium-battery-planes/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #southkorea #lithium #batteries #aviation
New energy storage technologies are pushing natural gas out of the power generation picture, Trump or no Trump.
Energy storage is at the center of the global low-carbon transition. Here are three examples of the latest scientific discoveries that could revolutionize batteries. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/03/01/tech/battery-revolution-three-approaches/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #batteries #electricvehicles #renewables #energy #environment
Form Energy, the nascent iron-air battery manufacturer, looks like a company to follow. In August they announced ground-breaking at their first Fe-air installation (a 1.5 MW project) in Cambridge, Minnesota
Here's an MIT Technology Review profile on Form Energy: https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/10/01/1104382/2024-climate-tech-companies-form-energy-iron-batteries/
#CleanEnergy #IronAirBatteries #Batteries #BatteryStorage ##EnergyStorage #ClimateAction #ClimateSolutions #Minnesota #MNastodon #ElectrifyEverything
Sherco coal-fired power plant (largest in Minnesota) will be replaced by solar arrays being constructed on site.
*New* They're adding an iron-air battery to the solar installation to provide power when there's no sun.
PV arrays will produce up to 710 MW, whereas the first Fe-air batteries will be 10 MW. Not the scale needed, but Form Energy just started manufacturing, so this is a pilot of sorts.
https://fresh-energy.org/xcel-energys-multiday-energy-storage-demonstration
#CleanEnergy #batteries #ClimateAction #solar #SolarPV #BatteryStorage
