This Week in Batteries: Tesla's 40 GWh Megapack Factory.

• Tesla's Shanghai megapack factory has started trial production, with full-scale mass production of 10,000 units annually (40 GWh capacity) expected in 1Q25. (Link)
• Altilium Metals raises $5MM from Marubeni, part of its Series B round (Link)
• Dragon Q Energy partners with Unite to Light and James S. Bower Foundation to pilot a new solar-powered energy solution aimed at enhancing community resilience and combating climate change (Link)

• Tesla launches refreshed Model Y in China (Link)
• Mazda to build a 10 GWh module pack plant in Yamaguchi Japan with cells from Panasonic (Link)
• SAIC to make battery swap-enabled models based on CATL's solution (Link)
• Xpeng Motors and Volkswagen have partnered to provide mutual access to their ultra-fast charging networks, comprising over 20,000 charging piles in 420 cities across China (Link)

• CATL among the firms banned from doing business with the US DoD (Link)?
• Microvast announced a significant milestone in the development of its True All-Solid-State Battery (ASSB) technology (Link)
• Svolt unveils EV battery that can charge from 10% to 80% in less than 9 minutes (Link)
• Ion Storage Systems hires Jorge Diaz Schneider as the company's new Chief Executive Officer; David McKenery as President and General Counsel; and Eric Lind as Chief Commercial Officer (Link)

• Redivivus and Re-New-Able Technologies are partnering to build a lithium-ion battery recycling facility in Illinois, leveraging Redivivus' Redi-Shred technology (Link)
• Zijin Mining Group in talks to buy $6.4B stake in Zangge Mining (Link)
• Lithium Americas appoints Luke Colton as new CFO (Link)

• Hithium, Samsung C&T claim 10GWh pipeline for global BESS project partnership (Link)
• Flatiron Energy gets ISO green light for 1.2GWh indoor BESS in Boston, Massachusetts (Link)
• Eneco to take Netherlands’ largest BESS into operation in 2025 (Link)
• Neoen starts building 90MWh German BESS (Link)
• Eolus sells 100MW/400MWh BESS to California utility SCP (Link)
• R.Power secures grant for 254MWh Romania BESS (Link)

• Illinois State Senator Bill Cunningham has passed legislation to accelerate energy storage in the Midwest US state (Link)

• Blue Whale Materials received a contracted grant award of $55MM from the U.S. DOE Office of MESC (Link)
• Brazil offers $815MM to back strategic minerals projects (Link)
• DOE progresses $1.8B loan to Arizona utility APS for BESS, transmission and clean energy (Link)
• Grenergy raises $324MM for Phase 4 of ‘world largest’ solar-plus-storage project in Chile (Link)

• Schr?dinger Launches New Online Molecular Modeling Course for Batteries (Link)
• NOVONIX Announces Intended Location for New Synthetic Graphite Manufacturing Plant in the Enterprise South Industrial Park in Chattanooga,Tennessee (Link)
• ACCURE Battery Intelligence Launches Warranty Tracker to Help Energy Storage Owners Reduce Costs (Link)

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