Ascend Elements

aid: ascend-elements
name: Ascend Elements
description: Ascend Elements is a Westborough, Massachusetts battery materials company that manufactures engineered lithium-ion
  battery materials from valuable elements reclaimed from spent lithium-ion batteries and gigafactory manufacturing scrap.
  Founded in 2015 as Battery Resourcers out of MIT-affiliated research by Eric Gratz and Professor Yan Wang, it recovers up
  to 98% of the critical battery metals in end-of-life cells and uses its patented Hydro-to-Cathode direct cathode precursor
  (pCAM) synthesis process to produce cathode precursor and battery-grade lithium carbonate, reducing the carbon footprint
  of new EV battery cathode material by up to 90%. Its Base 1 facility in Covington, Georgia is North America's largest electric-vehicle
  battery recycling plant, and Apex 1 in Hopkinsville, Kentucky is its commercial pCAM plant. Ascend Elements publishes no
  public developer API for its materials, recycling or logistics business; the only machine-readable surface observed on its
  own hosts is the WordPress REST API at ascendelements.com/wp-json, which serves the corporate website's content, media-coverage,
  jobs and supplier sourcing-event collections.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ascend-elements/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
image: https://ascendelements.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/cropped-AE_favicon.png
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment-pipeline
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-08-02'
modified: '2026-08-02'
tags:
- Company
- Battery Materials
- Battery Recycling
- Lithium-Ion
- Critical Minerals
- Cathode Precursor
- Electric Vehicles
- Circular Economy
- Advanced Manufacturing
- Sustainability
- Supply Chain
- Content Management
apis:
- name: Ascend Elements WordPress REST API
  description: 'The WordPress REST API surface published by Ascend Elements at ascendelements.com/wp-json — 362 routes across
    20 namespaces. The anonymously readable core is the wp/v2 content surface (posts, pages, media, categories, tags, users,
    comments, search, types, taxonomies, statuses) plus three company-specific custom post types: media_coverage (61 items
    of press coverage), sourcing-events (open supplier bid packages for the Apex 1 plant) and job (the careers board, currently
    empty) with its job_category and job_location taxonomies. This is the corporate website''s content/CMS surface, not a
    product API for Ascend Elements'' battery materials, recycling or logistics business — the company ships no public developer
    API for those. The OpenAPI in this repo was derived mechanically from the live route index and from JSON Schemas returned
    by HTTP OPTIONS on the readable collections.'
  humanURL: https://ascendelements.com/wp-json/
  baseURL: https://ascendelements.com/wp-json
  tags:
  - Content Management
  - WordPress
  - REST
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ascend-elements-wordpress-rest-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/ascend-elements-wordpress-rest-overlay.yaml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/ascend-elements-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/ascend-elements-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://ascendelements.com/
- type: About
  url: https://ascendelements.com/about-us/
- type: Products
  url: https://ascendelements.com/products/
- type: Services
  url: https://ascendelements.com/services/
- type: Blog
  url: https://ascendelements.com/category/news/
- type: Press
  url: https://ascendelements.com/category/coverage/
- type: Careers
  url: https://ascendelements.com/careers/
- type: Policies
  url: https://ascendelements.com/corporate-policies/
- type: Privacy
  name: Opt-out preferences / US cookie and data-sharing statement
  url: https://ascendelements.com/opt-out-preferences/
- type: ContactUs
  url: mailto:info@ascendelements.com
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/battery-resourcers
- type: Twitter
  url: https://x.com/ascendelements
- type: Youtube
  url: https://www.youtube.com/@AscendElements
- type: SecondaryMarket
  url: https://forgeglobal.com/ascend-elements_stock/
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/ascend-elements-well-known.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/ascend-elements-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/ascend-elements-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/ascend-elements-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/ascend-elements-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/ascend-elements-conformance.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/ascend-elements-data-model.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/ascend-elements-packages.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/ascend-elements-mcp.yml
- type: ToolCrosswalk
  url: mcp/ascend-elements-tool-crosswalk.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/ascend-elements-llms.txt
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-02'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 19
  pass: local-v1