RESTON, VA—The Appalachian region of the eastern United States contains an estimated 2.3 million metric tons of undiscovered, economically recoverable lithium.
HUNTINGTON, Ind. — Hanjung America Corp. plans to build its first U.S. manufacturing facility at the Riverfork West Industrial Park in Huntington, Indiana, establishing a production site for energy storage system components that will support electric vehicle battery manufacturing.
ANN ARBOR, MI—Engineers at the University of Michigan believe that vehicle-to-home charging technology could enable motorists to tap into energy from EV batteries.
New battery test systems are designed to simulate real-world conditions and accelerate validation cycles of batteries, inverters and power train systems.
ARNSTADT, Germany—Engineers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems are developing a sodium-ion battery that uses lignin, a by-product of the wood and pulp industry, as an electrode.