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December
2025
Exploring AI across the Battery Supply Chain Part 8: Pack Integration & Performance Monitoring December 17, 2025 Can AI Unlock Smarter Packs and Longer Battery Lifetimes? For much of the last decade, battery innovation was dominated by cell chemistry. Energy density, and cycle life. Cost improvements were largely driven by manufacturing scale. Today, that bottleneck is shifting. In many applications, particularly electric vehicles and grid-scale storage, individual cell performance has been maximized … Read now
November
2025
Exploring AI across the Battery Supply Chain Part 7: Formation, QA/QC, and Early Failure Prediction November 30, 2025 Can AI Reinvent Cell Formation and Quality Assurance? Formation is often described as the heart of lithium‑ion battery manufacturing. It is the first time a cell is charged, the moment when its interphase begins to form, and the step where latent defects tend to reveal themselves. It is also one of the most expensive and … Read now
Exploring AI across the Battery Supply Chain Part 6: Electrode and Cell Manufacturing November 15, 2025 Can AI Bring Precision to the Chaos of Battery Manufacturing? The leap from laboratory innovation to gigafactory production is one of the hardest transitions in the battery value chain. Between powder and pack lies a complex choreography of physical processes. From slurry mixing, electrode coating, and calendaring to stacking, winding, electrolyte filling, and sealing. Each … Read now
October
2025
How Direct Lithium Extraction is Revolutionizing Energy and EV Markets October 30, 2025 The world is entering a new era of clean energy, and lithium is at the center of this transformation. EnergyX is pioneering Direct Lithium Extraction (DLE) technology, enabling faster, more sustainable lithium production to meet the growing demand from electric vehicles, renewable energy storage, and global electrification efforts. What Is Direct Lithium Extraction? Direct Lithium … Read now
The Lithium Boom: Why Lithium Is Powering the Global Energy Transition October 15, 2025 The global energy transition is accelerating, and lithium has become one of the most important materials shaping the future of transportation, power generation, and energy storage. Once a niche industrial mineral, lithium is now at the center of electric vehicle growth, renewable energy expansion, and grid-scale battery storage. As demand rises across multiple industries, the … Read now
September
2025
Lithium: The Unsung Power Source Behind the AI Boom September 30, 2025 Artificial intelligence is transforming nearly every industry, from healthcare to finance to transportation. But behind the sleek interfaces and breakthrough models lies an overlooked truth: AI runs on massive amounts of power. And increasingly, the material making that possible is lithium. The AI Energy Challenge AI models require staggering amounts of electricity to train and … Read now