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SAIC Lays Foundation of Its Industrial Park in Thailand Where New Production Lines for Battery Modules and Packs Will Be Completed Within This Year

published: 2023-05-18 9:30
Major Chinese carmaker SAIC lately held a groundbreaking ceremony for its new industrial park in the Hemaraj Eastern Seaboard Industrial Estate in Thailand’s Chonburi Province. Spanning an area of 120,000 square meters, the industrial park will accommodate manufacturing facilities for NEVs and related key components. The industrial park will be developed in multiple phases. The first phase will involve the setup of new production lines for NEV power battery modules and packs. The production lines are expected to be built within 2023, and the entire industrial park is scheduled for completed by 2025. SAIC said the industrial park is intended to meet the demand from Thailand as well as the entire ASEAN market. ...  more

Na & Li Technology Has Received Tens of Millions of Yuan from Angel Investors and Put Its Pilot Production Line into Operation

published: 2023-05-16 9:30
Na & Li Technology, a Chinese startup specializing in cathodes for solid-state batteries, announced in late April that it has completed the seed funding round and secured tens of millions of yuan from angel investors. The amount raised from the seed funding round is going to be used to build a pilot production line, procure raw materials, and recruit more talents. The angel investors included Canmax, Soochow Investment, and Casstar. ...  more

Low Material Cost and Environmentally Friendly; What are Additional Challenges for Commercialization of Zinc-Ion Batteries?

published: 2023-05-15 9:30
Zinc-ion batteries come with many advantages, such as an abundance of zinc crust, affordance price tag, matured recycling technology, ability to store a mass amount of power, as well as the use of water-based electrolytes instead of the highly flammable organic solvents. However, there is still a long way ahead for the particular technology to attain commercialization, and now Swiss scientists could possibly take the first step in such direction. ...  more

Tesla Begins Construction of Lithium Refinery in US

published: 2023-05-15 9:30
In April of last year, Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk announced via an online post that his company was planning to make a full-scale entry into mining and refining lithium. Now, over a year later, Tesla has started to take concrete steps towards this goal. On May 8 of this year, Elon Musk held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new lithium refinery in Corpus Christi, Texas. Among the attendees of the event was Texas Governor Greg Abbott. ...  more