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