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A Michigan township killed a $2.4 billion Chinese battery plant, and now the company might bankrupt it

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Less than three years ago, residents of Green Charter Township, a rural community of roughly 3,000 people in central Michigan, packed a hall to celebrate what they saw as a victory for local democracy. They had recalled every member of their town board and installed replacements who promptly killed a $2.36 billion electric vehicle battery plant proposed […]

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Ford pivots its Kentucky battery plant from EVs to AI data centre storage in a $2 billion bet

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Ford has launched Ford Energy, a wholly owned subsidiary that will manufacture large-scale battery energy storage systems for utilities, data centres, and industrial customers. The company has committed roughly $2 billion to the operation, which repurposes a Kentucky plant originally built for electric vehicle batteries. The subsidiary is led by Lisa Drake, who reports directly to Ford […]

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Nvidia-backed Verse raises $54M to help AI data centres skip the power queue

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For years, the scarce resource in AI was chips. Now it is power. Verse Enterprises wants to unblock that bottleneck. The San Francisco startup has raised an oversubscribed $54mn Series B. Bessemer Venture Partners led the round. GV, Nvidia and Norrsken VC also took part. The race to AI is now a race to power […]

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From cars to data centres, GM pushes into energy storage with three new battery deals

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General Motors is pushing into energy storage for data centres and the electrical grid, announcing a sodium-ion battery development partnership with Peak Energy, a lithium iron phosphate supply deal with LG Energy Solution, and an expanded relationship with Redwood Materials. The moves mark GM’s clearest signal yet that it sees its $900 million investment in […]

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China wants slimmer EVs after batteries and features made them too heavy for parking spaces

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China wants its electric vehicles to go on a diet. The average passenger car in the country weighed 1,704 kg in 2024, roughly a third more than in 2012, state broadcaster CCTV reported on Sunday. Many popular SUVs and MPVs now approach or exceed 2 metres in width, squeezing into parking spaces designed a decade […]

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GM’s $900 million bet on a battery chemistry no one has commercialised could slash EV prices by 2028

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Hidden among the landmarks of General Motors’ Warren Tech Center outside Detroit is a pair of nondescript off-white buildings that house the company’s most consequential investment in years. The new Battery Cell Development Centre, spanning 500,000 square feet, is the lynchpin of GM’s plan to bring a new class of cheaper EV batteries to market a […]

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Your power bank is probably overheating. But don’t worry, TORRAS fixed that.

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Fast charging has a heat problem. You’ve felt it before: your phone gets hot while navigating in the car, your MagSafe battery pack turns into a hand warmer during a Zoom call, or charging suddenly slows because thermal throttling kicks in. As smartphones become more powerful, portable chargers are struggling to keep up. That is […]

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Chile’s Atacama desert is becoming the world’s biggest battery farm

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ContourGlobal, the independent power producer backed by KKR, has inaugurated a nearly $500 million solar-and-storage facility in Chile’s Atacama desert that stores daytime solar energy and delivers it after sundown. The Victor Jara hybrid plant combines 231 megawatt-peak of photovoltaic capacity with 1.3 gigawatt-hours of battery storage, capable of delivering 200 megawatts of power for […]

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Amprius and Matternet partner to bring silicon anode batteries to drone delivery

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  Amprius Technologies, the Fremont-based maker of high-energy-density silicon anode batteries, has announced a partnership with Matternet, one of the few drone delivery companies to hold both FAA Type Certification and Production Certification. The collaboration will see Amprius supply its SiCore® lithium-ion cells for Matternet’s autonomous delivery drones, a move that could meaningfully extend the […]

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HSBC opens a $4bn credit line for Chinese clean-tech to go global

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Europe’s largest bank is putting a dedicated facility behind Chinese solar, battery, EV and data-centre exporters expanding overseas, citing demand that has accelerated alongside the Iran war. HSBC has set up a dedicated $4bn credit facility to help Chinese clean-technology companies expand overseas, the bank said on Monday. The ‘Sustainability and Transition Credit Facility’ covers […]

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