On March 24, the Lianyungang Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment released the acceptance announcement for the environmental impact assessment report of the "Annual 50,000-ton Spent Lithium Battery Resource Utilization Project" undertaken by a recycling technology company in Jiangsu. The project involves constructing 1 cascade utilization production line and 2 regeneration utilization production lines, establishing a resource utilization capacity of 50,000 tons/year for spent lithium batteries.

Recently, the official website of the Gaoxian County People's Government in Yibin City, Sichuan Province, released the first public notice for the environmental impact assessment of the "Gaoxian County 80,000-ton Spent Lithium Battery Dismantling and Comprehensive Utilization Project" undertaken by a new energy company in Sichuan. According to the public notice, the new energy company has a total investment of 300 million yuan. The construction site is located in the Yibin Circular Economy Industrial Park. The project involves building 10 battery dismantling and battery crushing production lines, achieving an annual production scale of dismantling and comprehensively utilizing 80,000 tons of spent lithium batteries.

Recently, a relevant website released the first public notice for public participation in the environmental impact assessment of the "Guangdong Province Spent Lithium Battery Recycling Industry Base Cluster Project (Phase I)" undertaken by a company from Guangdong. According to the public notice, the project is located in Huadu District, Guangzhou City, and is primarily engaged in the comprehensive utilization of spent lithium batteries. Upon completion, using 15,000 t/a of spent lithium-ion battery cells as raw materials, the project will produce main products including ternary battery mixed powder

Recently, a new energy technology company in Guangdong officially released the first public notice for the environmental impact assessment of its "100,000-ton-per-year Lithium Battery Material Recycling Construction Project." This project will build 10 production lines for the recycling and utilization of spent lithium batteries. The main raw materials will be externally sourced spent lithium iron phosphate and ternary power lithium batteries. Upon completion, the project is expected to produce 7,500 tons of copper powder, 7,500 tons of aluminum powder, 42,000 tons of battery powder, 500 tons of PP, 2,000 tons of iron, and 5 tons of nickel sheets annually.

Recently, the Engineering Construction Acceptance Publicity Website released the first public notice for the environmental impact assessment of the New Energy Spent Lithium Battery Processing and Utilization Project, undertaken by a new material technology company in Hunan. The project will lease existing factory buildings in the Shigaitang area of the Chenzhou Economic Development Zone in Hunan to build a production line capable of recycling 50,000 tons of spent power lithium batteries annually. Covering approximately 4,163 square meters, the project will lease two production workshops and construct two spent lithium battery dismantling and recycling lines, leveraging the lithium ore resources in Chenzhou.

SMM learned that BAIC R&D recently announced the successful development of sodium-ion battery prototypes. The first prismatic battery pack using prismatic battery cells achieved an energy density exceeding 170 Wh/kg, placing it in the industry’s top tier. It also supports 4C ultra-fast charging, enabling recharging in 11 minutes. Its temperature-range adaptability and safety performance are outstanding, with stable operation across an ultra-wide range from -40°C to 60°C, energy retention above 92% at -20°C, and no risk of thermal runaway under extreme scenarios. At present, this sodium-ion battery has completed sample finalization, established mass-production processes for prismatic products, and filed 20 patents around core technologies. BAIC has also leveraged this to complete a full technology roadmap covering lithium batteries, solid-state batteries, and sodium-ion batteries, and has mastered a complete set of core sodium-ion battery technologies.