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EMIN ASKEROV
Cleantech FOAK and Scale-up Consiglieri
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🐔🥚 The Battery Digitalization Chicken-and-Egg Problem
You need data to optimize production, but production has to be running to generate that data.
Emin Askerov
Nov 5, 20242 min read
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🎃 Halloween Horror Story: The Rise and Fall of Redflow 👻
How a flow-battery maker, Redflow, met its untimely end.
Emin Askerov
Nov 1, 20241 min read
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🚀 Ramping-Up Battery Production: Lessons from Fraunhofer’s Report
🚀 Scaling Up Hardware? Fraunhofer’s Battery Ramp-Up Report Shows Just How Hard It Gets!
Emin Askerov
Oct 31, 20243 min read
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🔄 𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝗥𝗶𝘀𝗸 𝗧𝗼 𝗥𝘂𝗹𝗲 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗺 𝗔𝗹𝗹 🪫
Every waste management project hinges on a single, often-overlooked factor that can make or break it: the supply of waste. Circular...
Emin Askerov
Oct 29, 20242 min read
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🔋 4 Takeaways On Critical Materials in the Battery Supply Chain🔋
Last month, IRENA quietly dropped a report on critical materials in the battery supply chain—yet I saw barely a blip about it on...
Emin Askerov
Oct 28, 20241 min read
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☸️Hub-n’-Spoke: An Alternative For The EU Battery Value Chain 🔋
🔋 𝗜𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗨 𝗯𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘆? 🚀
Emin Askerov
Oct 24, 20243 min read
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EU Battery Industry: The New Hope
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...the EU embarked on a mission to break free from the grip of battery giants.
Emin Askerov
Oct 11, 20243 min read
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Lessons From A Failed Gigafactory
What makes batteries so tough to crack? Here are lessons from 15 years ago, which still have a familiar ring today.
Emin Askerov
Oct 8, 20242 min read
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What’s Going On in the Dutch Battery Industry?
Unlike some of their European counterparts, the Netherlands hasn’t been making waves in the battery headlines. But don’t let that fool you.
Emin Askerov
Sep 30, 20241 min read
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🚨 Northvolt’s Strategic Shift: Focus on the Core 🚨
Northvolt grew fast—maybe too fast.
Emin Askerov
Sep 16, 20241 min read
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Tactical Solution to EU Cell Manufacturing Problems
🔋 The Problems Are Clear. The Solutions Are Mistimed. Except One.
Emin Askerov
Sep 13, 20242 min read
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🔋 The End of an ICE Age 🧊
The latest shift away from EVs is a clear signal: legacy automakers don’t have the guts to fully embrace the electric future.
Emin Askerov
Sep 12, 20242 min read
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A Near 100% Renewable Grid Use Case ⚡🌍
Australia can now run its grid on close to 100% renewables. What are the takeaways for cleantech scaleups?
Emin Askerov
Sep 5, 20243 min read
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Why Are Batteries Trailing Behind Renewables? 🔋🌞
Why Are Batteries Trailing Behind Renewables? 🔋🌞
Emin Askerov
Aug 29, 20241 min read
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Which Battery Tech Will Take the Crown? 🏆🔋
🏁The race is on! Gigafactory capacity is already big enough to meet all Net Zero targets—and there's more on the way. We’re seeing some...
Emin Askerov
Aug 29, 20241 min read
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The Battery Boom
The Battery Boom (no, not THAT one!): VC Funding Surges as Renewables Demand Grows
Emin Askerov
Aug 26, 20241 min read
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Slow and Steady Morrow’s March
Good news at last. But progress still slow. Morrow Batteries, founded in 2014, has finally opened its first 1 GWh factory after ten...
Emin Askerov
Aug 19, 20241 min read
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How to Make a Battery in Europe?
EU companies seem to be unable to get their gigafactories up and running. Britishvolt, Italvolt cancelled. Freyr and Beyonder are moving...
Emin Askerov
Jul 5, 20242 min read
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Hockey sticks: how to make one
We now have two newly made hockey sticks - one for stationary storage (ESS) and one for the EV batteries. Find out how one is made.
Emin Askerov
Jun 4, 20242 min read
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