Battery Insiders Reflection - Battery News

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0:00Welcome to Battery Insiders, your podcast providing you insights in the fascinating world of batteries. Hosted by Bhavya Jha and Simon Engelke. And we're back. Hi, everybody. Welcome back, Simon. Today we had a conversation about battery news, specifically our newsletter as well. Simon, do you want to tell us a little bit about it? Absolutely. Thank you, Bhavya. And yeah, as you mentioned, this was a bit of maybe a new format in some way we have been thinking about doing on the battery news. And that's kind of connected to the battery newsletter we have with battery associates. So maybe just a bit of context with battery associates. We track all kinds of news for different reasons. So also for our company members who we give intelligence on what are some of the trends we're seeing and maybe some of the things they want to look out for. And yeah, it's a news. We put the synopsis of this essentially as part of a battery newsletter, which is free and open to everyone.

1:09So people are really welcome to read it online and just follow what's going on. And that's kind of also connected to that. We all appreciate there's so much going on. And it's quite tricky sometimes to kind of realize what maybe matters. And yeah, this newsletter, this was quite an exciting one. There's many updates. I think I don't want to go into too much detail because otherwise it's probably going to take us too long. But essentially in this newsletter from October, we had quite a few exciting updates. Some of them are, for example, Stellantis and Alge Energy, a solution to form a joint venture to produce lithium-ion battery cells in North America. We had Tesla to launch electric cars with the 4680 cells. So this was connected to the Giga Fest in Berlin, Brandenburg. There were some exciting sneak peeks in there and some interesting speeches also from Elon and Musk and others. Then BASF and Eswald partnering together to advance battery material research and battery recycling solutions.

2:06Chile to open a tender for exploration and production of lithium reserve. Automakers invest in battery recycling to meet demand for minerals. This was a larger investment together with Li-Cycle Holdings. But also battery resources also secured another 70 million US dollars investment to expand their battery recycling activities and manufacturing. So it was quite a bit of recycling in the past month. Then we also had the Global Organization International Lithium Association formed to help companies get sustainable lithium supply. So there's a couple of different associations actually. Which are going to create another one was a partnership by Argon, announced by Argon, the Liebridge Private Public Partnership for Domestic Lithium Battery Supply Chain in the United States. It's got a bit of a response to the European battery lines and others we've been seeing. Then also we've seen some updates from China to cut use of fossil fuel below 20% by 2060. And the Indian government to launch a thousand megawatt hour battery energy storage system pilot project.

3:08And then the last update is New York State, which is ConnectGU and passes a bill to electrify school bus fleet by 2035. So some local action. Big news for New York. Big news for New York. Big news for New York. Big news for New York. Big news for New York. Big news for New York. Big news for New York. So here's the question. If I want to subscribe, where should I go? Just go on battery.associates and you can pop up there or in the footer you see as well. Just subscribe. It's free. Once a month you get a nice summary of the important news and some commentary from us as well, as well as all the links to all these podcasts. If you miss them, you can find them all there and you find them with a summary of each podcast as well. So that's easy to find. Fantastic. Thanks so much for sharing. See you next week. See you.