VFBATTERY REPORT

Notable Events

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Battery Report 2025, page 9: Notable Events

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Elevated Materials spun out of Applied Materials, manufacturing roll-to-roll lithium thin films for pre-lithiation and Li-metal anodes.

CATL filed for $5B Hong Kong Stock Exchange listing to fund international expansion

Toyota shifted $1.5B order to LGʼs Lansing battery plant from another Michigan plant after GM exits.

Democratic Republic of the Congo banned cobalt exports for 4 months to curb oversupply.

KORE Power abandoned plans for $1B Arizona cell factory with initial capacity aimed for 6GWh

Honda and Nissan ended their merger talks (first announced in Dec.ʼ24) that aimed to create a $60B combined automaker

Electric-truck maker Nikola filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

Mercedes-Benz and Factorial engineers launched the solid-state battery test program, putting the first car powered by a lithiummetal solid-state battery on the road.go

Critical Metals announced a $22.5M PIPE to fund the development of two of its mining assets

BYD announced plans to begin 'demonstration use' of all-solid-state batteries by 2027

PIPE Private Investment in Public Equity.

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