Lithium-ion batteries

Battery Resourcers raises $20M for sustainable battery ecosystem

The lithium-ion battery recycling and manufacturing company Battery Resourcers announced this week it has completed a $20 million Series B investment round led by Orbia Ventures with participation from At One Ventures, TDK Ventures, TRUMPF Venture, Doral Energy-Tech Ventures and Jaguar Land Rover’s InMotion Ventures. The company has not disclosed its current valuation.

Battery Resourcers has a different approach from other major battery recyclers. While others focus on recovering the metals,...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/battery-resourcers-raises-20m-for-sustainable-battery-ecosystem

Drilling Deep: Battery technology racing ahead; so is the price of diesel

On this week’s Drilling Deep podcast, James Frith of Bloomberg NEF brings his expertise in battery technology to the show and discusses some significant technological developments in battery technology just in the past few months. How rapidly are we moving toward cost-competitive batteries?

Also on Drilling Deep, host John Kingston talks about the record set just a few days ago: 16 consecutive weeks of increases in the weekly DOE/EIA retail diesel price, used as the basis for fuel surcharges....

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/drilling-deep-battery-technology-racing-ahead-so-is-the-price-of-diesel

The First-All Electric Vessel To Be Launched In Tokyo Next Year

According to an article published in IEEE Spectrum, a new ship powered only by lithium-ion batteries is coming to Japan’s coastline and the 60-meter-long tanker will be the first all-electric vessel of its kind when it launches in Tokyo Bay next year, its developers say.

The e5 Vessel

The “e5” tanker is the latest in a small but growing fleet of vessels that use batteries for propulsion or onboard electricity use. As the global shipping industry works to curb carbon dioxide emissions and...

https://mfame.guru/the-first-all-electric-vessel-to-be-launched-in-tokyo-next-year/

Norwegian Electric Systems selects Corvus Energy storage system for five new Fjord1 ferries

The five ferries are a Havyard design and will be built in Havyard Shipyard in Leirvik, Sogn. Each ferry will be equipped with air-cooled Corvus Orca Energy ESS that will supply electrical power to the ferry’s NES all-electric power and propulsion system.

Bergen, Norway and Richmond, British Columbia, Canada – January 28, 2019 – Corvus Energy is pleased to announce that the company has been selected by Norwegian Electric Systems (NES) to supply lithium ion battery-based energy storage systems...

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2019/01/28/norwegian-electric-systems-selects-corvus-energy-storage-system-for-five-new-fjord1-ferries/

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