Using AI and Digital Twins to Scale Battery Recycling
As battery recycling scales, digitalization is becoming essential for improving safety, efficiency, and process reliability. In recent years, we have experienced rapid changes in the market, including shifts in battery demand and supply chains, technological advancements with the scaling and implementation of AI, and global government commitments to investment. Let me recap and provide updates […]
Black Mass and Battery Material Testing Methods Need Industry Standards
The lithium value chain lacks standardized testing methods for measuring elemental composition from black mass to battery materials. Key Takeaways Black-mass quality depends on a variety of factors. Battery type, origin, and composition directly impact recycling value and suitability for downstream metallurgical processes such as pyrometallurgy and hydrometallurgy The absence of an industrywide standard for […]
Lithium Solid-State Batteries: Promise, Physics, and the Path to Commercial Reality
Lithium solid-state batteries (SSBs) have been positioned as the next major leap in energy storage for over a decade now, especially in the transportation sector. They promise higher energy density, improved safety, and the enabling of lithium metal anodes. Yet despite substantial investment and steady technical progress, true solid-state batteries remain largely in prototype or […]
Solving the Supply Chain Challenges That Put the Energy Transition at Risk
As domestic demand for critical materials continues to grow, the state of the North American battery supply chain, or lack thereof, has come into sharper focus. While the high import dependency of the materials needed for many industrial processes threatens the overall economy, the battery material supply chain risk is especially acute. It is the […]
Why Solar Energy is a Primary Growth Driver for the Battery Industry
For long-standing veterans of the battery industry, it may seem miraculous or mysterious that so much demand growth is now being driven by stationary applications to support the electricity grid. After all, the grid has been around for over 120 years, during which batteries have had virtually no role in keeping the lights on. Of […]