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New Li-Bridge Initiative on Tracking and Tracing Lithium Batteries

2024-08-30T14:19:02-04:00

On August 29, I had the pleasure of participating in the fifth government-industry forum of the Li-Bridge project at Argonne National Laboratory outside Chicago.  The forum sought to collect information and opinions from leading private companies and government agencies on various schemes that have been proposed to track and trace the contents and performance attributes of high capacity lithium-based batteries over their lifetime use in commerce.  The best known of those schemes, which the forum discussed extensively, was the EU’s Battery Passport. Representatives from more than 50 companies and government agencies participated in the forum.  The participants represented the entire breadth [...]

New Li-Bridge Initiative on Tracking and Tracing Lithium Batteries2024-08-30T14:19:02-04:00

Get Ready to See the Database

2021-08-27T11:24:02-04:00

One of NAATBatt’s most significant accomplishments in 2021 will be the publication of the North American Lithium-Ion Battery Supply Chain Database.  The Database will provide a directory of all companies in North America that participate in any significant element of the lithium-ion battery supply chain and have a manufacturing facility or employ more than 10 people in North America.  A team at NREL led by Dr. Ahmad Pesaran is currently in the process of finalizing the Database. The first opportunity for members of NAATBatt to see the Database will be during the meeting of the Manufacturing in North America Committee at [...]

Get Ready to See the Database2021-08-27T11:24:02-04:00

NAATBatt Statement on the White House’s 100-Day Supply Chain Review for Large Capacity Batteries

2021-06-09T09:22:15-04:00

NAATBatt International applauds the release of the White House's 100-Day Review under Executive Order 14017 of the domestic supply chain for large capacity batteries (see: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/100-day-supply-chain-review-report.pdf).   The Review’s recommendations for building domestic demand for large capacity batteries, investing in the extraction and refining of energy materials, supporting private investment in cell and cell component manufacturing, encouraging battery recycling and doubling-down on next generation battery R&D are spot on.  If the federal government follows through on those recommendations with consistent, bipartisan action, U.S. companies and U.S. workers will be able to compete, and perhaps one day to lead the world, in [...]

NAATBatt Statement on the White House’s 100-Day Supply Chain Review for Large Capacity Batteries2021-06-09T09:22:15-04:00

The Challenge of Building a Lithium Battery Supply Chain in North America

2021-05-28T17:45:51-04:00

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.  Thank you for the invitation to speak this morning to the Hamilton Commission.  My name is Jim Greenberger and I am the Executive Director and founder of NAATBatt International, the trade association of developers, manufacturers and users of advanced battery technology in North America.  Since 2008, NAATBatt’s mission has been to promote the use and manufacture of advanced batteries in the United States and the growth of the good American jobs that manufacturing will create.  Today, NAATBatt has 164 corporate and institutional members representing all elements of the advanced battery supply chain in North America. [...]

The Challenge of Building a Lithium Battery Supply Chain in North America2021-05-28T17:45:51-04:00

Re-Thinking Energy Security and Lithium-Ion Batteries

2021-04-23T13:12:19-04:00

Lithium battery technology will be one of the most important technologies of the 21st Century.  That is not because there is anything special about batteries.  Battery technology has been known to man for 2,000 years.  But the development of batteries based on the lithium atom, the fourth lightest element in the universe, has made batteries a critical, strategic technology. The significance of the light weight, high energy lithium-ion battery is that it can supply electricity to any point in space without the need of an electrical cord.  This has opened the possibility of consumer electronics, electric vehicles, drones, renewable energy, [...]

Re-Thinking Energy Security and Lithium-Ion Batteries2021-04-23T13:12:19-04:00
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