Blackstone Resources presented its manufacturing process for lithium-ion batteries from the 3D printer at an event at its plant in Döbeln, Saxony. In this context, the plant for series production was also started up.

The event and production takes place at Blackstone Technology, the German subsidiary of the Swiss holding company Blackstone Resources AG. Due to the corona situation, however, the press conference had to be broadcast online.

Blackstone presented the LFP...

The English electric vehicle developer Arrival has announced that it will be building an assembly plant for high-voltage battery modules in Charlotte, North Carolina. The batteries built there are to be used in the vans and buses from US production.


A quick look back: In October 2020 , Arrival announced its first micro-factory in the US, and battery-electric buses are to be built in York County, South Carolina. In March 2021 , the company announced that it would build another...

The Federal Government has also included a number of measures to promote electromobility in its stimulus package relating to the Corona crisis. The most important of course: The state's share of the environmental bonus will be doubled in the form of a new “innovation bonus”.


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“With the environmental bonus, we are promoting the exchange of the vehicle fleet with climate-friendly...

The South Korean battery cell manufacturer Samsung SDI and its South Korean supplier of battery materials EcoPro BM are investing the equivalent of around 88 million euros in a joint venture called EcoPro EM.

The joint venture is held by 40 percent from Samsung SDI and 60 percent from EcoPro BM. Both companies plan to endow the joint venture with 120 billion won. It is planned to start building a factory in the city of Pohang this year, which will produce cathode material for NCA cells...

General Motors is working on one, according to a media report electricalDelivery truck to go into production in late 2021. In addition, the US automaker is said to be establishing cooperation with CATL in China.


The Reuters news agency claims to have learned both. General Motors wanted to use the e-delivery van to target commercial customers, but also delivery services such as Amazon and UPS, as five people familiar with the plans confirmed to Reuters.

The plans...

The newly founded Norwegian company Morrow Batteries plans to build a battery cell factory for electric cars. In the final expansion, this should have a capacity of 32 GWh. The first of the four planned expansion stages, each with 8 GWh, should be completed in 2024.

The emerging European battery cell production is receiving a new player: Morrow Batteries announces that it plans to build a cell factory with a research center in Agder in southern Norway. The location has intentionally...

The Swiss battery manufacturer Leclanché enters into a partnership with the Eneris Group, which operates from Poland, and at the same time is strategically repositioning itself. For this purpose, several joint ventures are to be founded - also in Germany.

Leclanché wants to become a "market-oriented, research-oriented software and system integration company". The customer contracts should remain unchanged with the Swiss and existing orders will continue to...

The Swedish battery manufacturer Northvolt and the Norwegian aluminum producer Norsk Hydro announce the establishment of a joint venture to enable the recycling of battery materials and aluminum in the Norwegian electric vehicle market.


The joint venture called Hydro Volt is set to build a recycling center in Norway that will start operating in 2021. According to a media report, around 9 million euros are to be invested in the Frederikstad location, south of Oslo near...