Redwood Materials has closed a US$350 million Series E funding round to scale up its critical battery materials and energy storage businesses.

A subsidiary of CATL and local partners have begun construction on a battery manufacturing complex in West Java, Indonesia.

A new study from Stanford says that sodium-ion batteries will need more breakthroughs in order to compete with lithium-ion (Li-ion).

Construction has been completed at a factory making electrolyte for vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) energy storage systems in Western Australia

Samantha McGahan of Australian Vanadium on the electrolyte, which is the single most important material for making vanadium flow batteries.

Elcora is developing a vanadium pentoxide plant in Morocco to complement raw materials extraction.

Australian Vanadium has secured a site and progressed the design and development of a flow battery electrolyte facility in Western Australia.

Imperial County has approved schemes to incentivise investment into lithium value chain, leveraging the region’s abundant brine resources.

A demonstration facility to prove out Australia’s capabilities in critical minerals processing will be built in North Queensland.

Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced financial support for four technology sector manufacturing projects, including a vanadium processing plant.