** Shares of battery technology company Iondrive ION.AX
rise as much as 91.7% to A$0.023
** Shares hit their highest levels since July 13, 2023
** Co completes A$6 mln ($3.88 mln) placement of 435,714,286
new shares
** Shares offered at a 16.7% premium from stock's last close
** Co to use proceeds to build and operate a pilot plant for
the Deep Eutectic Solvent-based (DES) battery recycling
technology
** About 31,061,340 shares change hands, compared with the
30-day average volume of 1,084,283
($1 = 1.5468 Australian dollars)
(Reporting by Nichiket Sunil in Bengaluru)
((Nichiket.Sunil@thomsonreuters.com;))