NEW YORK, March 28 — Innovation in the automotive sector is the focus at the Grand Prix ACF AutoTech, an industry startup challenge set up by the Automobile Club de France. This year’s winners will be announced on April 14, 2022. In the meantime, here’s a look at the six finalists, each working on innovations from efficient batteries to cleaner and more traceable materials, and each anticipating the needs of the automotive industry in the years to come.
Thanks to its clean technologies, the French startup extracts lithium from brine, even at low concentrations, using microfiber-based materials with selective absorption properties, which act as a kind of filter to capture the lithium, eliminating any non-essential residue. This lithium is then guaranteed to be clean and waste-free.