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In Memory of Imre Gyuk

2025-07-25T12:40:23-04:00

It is with great sadness that I report the passing of Imre Gyuk, one of the truly great figures in the field of energy storage.  Imre served most recently as Chief Scientist, Energy Storage at the U.S. Department of Energy.  But he made his mark on the world and on those of us who knew him in industry over the nearly 40 years before during which he served as the Director of Energy Storage Research at the Department of Energy. Today storing electricity on the grid to use when needed is a mainstream technology with a market size in excess of [...]

In Memory of Imre Gyuk2025-07-25T12:40:23-04:00

Statement on Maintaining Tax Incentives for Domestic Battery Manufacturing

2025-05-16T17:46:04-04:00

Manufacturing in the United States is in crisis.  Nowhere is this crisis more acute than in the manufacture of advanced lithium batteries and their supply chain components.  The loss of manufacturing in the United States has hollowed-out communities, eliminated good jobs and reduced the tax base.  The loss of manufacturing is a root cause of the ballooning federal deficit. But the loss of manufacturing itself is not the crisis.  The crisis is the loss of investment in manufacturing infrastructure.  Manufacturing lithium batteries, like any other product, cannot be established and sustained in the United States unless investors can see a path [...]

Statement on Maintaining Tax Incentives for Domestic Battery Manufacturing2025-05-16T17:46:04-04:00

In Defense of US Fuel Economy Standards

2024-11-26T15:11:50-05:00

I had dinner recently with a friend who is a money manager.  He told me that he planned to buy stock in a major automobile company.  He said that the stock had earnings of $2.00 per share.  But that was because the company was making $3.00 per share on its sale of gasoline-powered cars and losing $1.00 per share on its sales of electric vehicles.  With the incoming Trump administration set to loosen or eliminate the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards, he figured that the company would soon be out of the EV manufacturing business and back to the [...]

In Defense of US Fuel Economy Standards2024-11-26T15:11:50-05:00

The Advanced Battery Industry on the Day After

2024-11-07T16:43:33-05:00

The 2024 general election is mercifully over.  Many in the advanced battery, renewable energy and electric vehicle industries are apprehensive about the result to say the least.  While some apprehension is warranted, it is important to keep a few of things in mind. First is that advanced batteries and electric vehicles are not the product of government policy.  They are the product of fundamental changes in energy and automotive technologies that will continue regardless of political leadership.  Government policy cannot affect the existence of this change (though it can affect its pace).  Politics will not prevent the adoption of a superior [...]

The Advanced Battery Industry on the Day After2024-11-07T16:43:33-05:00

We Need a New Approach to China

2024-08-02T17:25:00-04:00

Two weeks ago, I had the pleasure of extending an invitation to Robin Zeng Yuqun, the Chairman of CATL, to attend a meeting of the Board of Directors of NAATBatt International in Detroit next October.  CATL is a longtime NAATBatt member and the largest manufacturer of lithium-ion batteries in the world.  This week I was informed that Mr. Zeng would be unable to attend because of geopolitical issues. NAATBatt’s core mission is to promote the development, commercialization and manufacture of advanced battery technology in North America.  No organization has been more concerned about the growing concentration of lithium battery supplies and [...]

We Need a New Approach to China2024-08-02T17:25:00-04:00

Lithium Battery Recycling Workshop VII Agenda to Debut Soon

2024-03-29T22:32:01-04:00

NAATBatt will hold the NAATBatt Lithium Battery Recycling Workshop VII in Montreal, Quebec on August 7-9, 2024.  The workshop will be NAATBatt’s seventh annual look at the opportunities and challenges of creating circularity in the supply chain of lithium-based batteries. Several factors will make the workshop unique.  First and foremost, the workshop will be the first conference that NAATBatt hosts in Canada.  The organizational mission of NAATBatt focuses on the North American advanced battery market.  So we are thrilled to have our Canadian friends more directly in NAATBatt programming. The agenda for the workshop will address issues and challenges that are [...]

Lithium Battery Recycling Workshop VII Agenda to Debut Soon2024-03-29T22:32:01-04:00

Member Update Presentations Announced

2022-01-21T22:33:51-05:00

NAATBatt 2022, the 13th annual meeting and conference of the NAATBatt International organization, will be held on February 7-10, 2022.  Notwithstanding Covid, registration numbers for the meeting are well in excess of what NAATBatt has seen for any past program.  The NAATBatt hotel block is already sold out and we are having to give serious consideration to closing registration for the entire program due to size limitations of the venue.  Just a few years ago, this situation would have seemed fanciful.  Watch out what you wish for. This week NAATBatt announced the scheduling of 109 Member Update Presentation talks during the [...]

Member Update Presentations Announced2022-01-21T22:33:51-05:00

Looking Ahead to NAATBatt 2022

2021-12-24T23:06:04-05:00

As NAATBatt members know, NAATBatt 2022, the thirteenth annual meeting and conference of the NAATBatt International organization, will be held at the Wigwam Resort in Litchfield Park (Phoenix), Arizona on February 7-10, 2022.  Details about the program can be seen here. The program of the meeting continues to develop.  Monday will be the golf and tennis tournaments and tournament dinner.  Tuesday will see meetings of the Battery Recycling Committee, the Manufacturing in North America Committee, the Second Life Battery Committee and the Zinc Battery Committee.  The program in chief will start on Tuesday with annual reports about the state of the [...]

Looking Ahead to NAATBatt 20222021-12-24T23:06:04-05:00

NAATBatt Publishes Database of the North American Lithium-Ion Supply Chain

2021-09-17T16:05:26-04:00

On September 15, 2021, NAATBatt International released its database of companies active in the North American lithium-ion battery supply chain.  The database is the culmination of several months work by three NAATBatt committees—the Manufacturing in North America Committee, the Battery Recycling Committee and the Battery Markets Committee—and extensive work by a team at NREL working under contract with NAATBatt. The database can be seen at: https://www.nrel.gov/transportation/li-ion-battery-supply-chain-database.html. The database is the first attempt ever to identify every company in North America working in every aspect of the lithium-ion battery supply chain.  Assembling the database required identifying exactly what the critical sectors [...]

NAATBatt Publishes Database of the North American Lithium-Ion Supply Chain2021-09-17T16:05:26-04:00

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
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