This Week in Batteries: Lyten, Indonesia, Elon Musk, and More.

• Lyten investing more than $1B to build the world’s first Li-S gigafactory in Nevada with up to 10 GWh/yr capacity (Link)
• Indonesia forming a joint venture with CATL to invest $1.2B in battery production (Link)
• Elon Musk gives $75MM boost to Donald Trump’s presidential run (Link)

• Forge Nano, Inc. receives $10MM investment from GM Ventures to pursue GM battery material enhancements for EVs (Link)

• Hyundai launches new Casper Electric Premium starting at $20K, under $8K with subsidies (Link)

• Cornish Lithium opens UK’s first low-emission lithium plant; aims to produce 10,000 tonnes of battery-grade lithium hydroxide per year by 2027 (Link)

• California now has more than 13GW of battery storage (Link)
• Fluence to supply BESS for Germany’s largest solar-plus-storage project (Link)
• W?rtsil? to supply its Quantum High Energy technology for 300MWh BESS in South Australia (Link)

• Atlas Materials and 6K Energy sign MOU to jointly explore processing and refining opportunities to support an integrated North American EV battery supply chain (Link)
• Indonesia slated to ship EV battery precursor to Tesla in November (Link)

• 通用汽车 investing $625MM in Thacker Pass lithium JV with Lithium Americas (Link)
• U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) LPO issued a conditional commitment for a direct loan of up to $670.6MM to Aspen Aerogels (Link)
• Liminal raised $10MM, led by LG Technology Ventures (Link)
• South 8 Technologies pursuing a Series B funding round of $25MM (Link)
• BeDimensional secured EIB financial support to boost production (Link)

• SolidEnergy Systems promotes battery veteran Dr. Kang Xu to CTO to lead its AI efforts (Link)

• TWAICE and Element Materials Technology form strategic partnership to advance battery testing and characterization capabilities in the U.S. market (Link)
• Gelion announces the launch of its Energy Storage Integration Solutions business with ~￡1.0m commercial orders (Link)

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