E-car batteries: Nickel from Indonesia instead of Russia
E-car batteries: Nickel from Indonesia instead of Russia The demand for nickel for cathodes will multiply by 2030. So far, the emerging EU battery industry has been dependent on Russian nickel. Because of the war in Ukraine, nickel from Indonesia is very popular. There, however, mining threatens primeval forests and isolated indigenous peoples. Joko Widodo's popularity limited […]
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Battery production in record speed
30.07.2019/XNUMX/XNUMX - With a new coating process, a research team from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has achieved the fastest production of electrodes for lithium-ion batteries to date. At the same time, the new process improves the quality of the electrodes and reduces production costs. When manufacturing electrodes for batteries, electrode material is applied as a thin paste in a rectangular pattern onto a sheet of [...]
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