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Two Chinese firms have joined forces in a bid to replace lead-acid batteries with their carbon-based aluminium technology.

Chinese firms Tantech Holdings Ltd. and Zhejiang EGE Battery Manufacturing Co have entered into a strategic cooperation agreement to develop, market, and sell carbon-based aluminium (Al) batteries.

Lead-acid battery manufacturer Enersys has partnered with a lift truck manufacturer to complete a UK deal.

The Swiss firm is supplying its Hawker® Motive Power branded batteries, which will be used alongside Crown’s wireless fleet management solution.

It will come as no surprise to the industry that lead-acid has topped the most recycled list again in 2013, according to the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) latest report.

It topped the chart once again as the weight of lead being recovered stayed constant the percentage of the amount being recycled rose my 3%.

US utilities firm Duke Energy Renewables is upgrading the nation’s biggest utility scale lead-acid battery to provide Texas with fast response frequency regulation.

The company is converting its 36-megawatt storage battery at its Notrees Wind Power project in Texas to lithium-ion technology.

Sovema, the Italian owned global supplier of lead-acid battery machine making equipment has announced it is going to pursue IP counterfeiters in China and deal with them, through the courts and other channels.

The company is setting up a special task force to identify fake equipment being produced in China and stop both its manufacture and use.