article thumbnail

ARPA-E issues $100M OPEN funding opportunity announcement to support early-stage energy R&D

Green Car Congress

DE-FOA-0001858 ) ARPA-E issued previous OPEN solicitations in 2009, 2012, and 2015. Technologies for improved batteries for a wide range of vehicle applications, including hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs), plug-in hybrids (PHEVs), and battery-electric vehicles (BEVs). Non-battery storage for transportation.

Energy 207
article thumbnail

US Senators Alexander, Webb Introduce $20B Energy Legislation with Emphasis on Nuclear Energy Investment

Green Car Congress

US Senators Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Jim Webb (D-VA) introduced “The Clean Energy Act of 2009”, a bill to promote further investment and development of non-fossil-based energy technologies, including nuclear power and other resources. 100 million per year for 10 years toward nuclear education and training. .

Energy 199
article thumbnail

Sanyo To Build 30B Plant For Automotive Li-Ion Batteries

Green Car Congress

With combined production at the new factory and another plant in Tokushima Prefecture that will begin operating as early as the end of the year, Sanyo plans to boost its overall output capacity of lithium ion batteries by over 500% for about 120,000 vehicles a year. 7267) and vehicles of Ford Motor Co. 7267) and vehicles of Ford Motor Co.

Li-ion 150
article thumbnail

Liquid Metal Battery Corp secures patent rights from MIT

Green Car Congress

Liquid Metal Battery Corporation (LMBC), a Cambridge, Massachusetts company founded in 2010 to develop new forms of electric storage batteries that work in large, grid-scale applications, has secured the rights to key patent technology from MIT.

MIT 210
article thumbnail

DOE proposing $100M in FY2014 for 2nd round of funding for Energy Frontier Research Centers

Green Car Congress

US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz announced a proposed $100 million in FY2014 funding for Energy Frontier Research Centers; research supported by this initiative will enable fundamental advances in energy production and use. Earlier post.) —DE-FOA-0001010.

Energy 239
article thumbnail

Commerce Secretary Releases Draft Smart Grid Interoperability Plan; Plug-in Vehicle Standards One of the Priorities

Green Car Congress

Electric storage. Electric transportation. billion of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) funds to the Department of Energy also are slated for Smart Grid demonstration projects. NIST is using ARRA (Recovery Act) funds to establish the panel by the end of 2009. Demand response.

Grid 230
article thumbnail

Study Finds Bioelectricity Better Option Than Liquid Biofuels for Transportation Output and GHG Emissions

Green Car Congress

2009) Click to enlarge. Co-product credits in EBAMM favor the ethanol pathway by accounting for ethanol co-products but not potential bioelectricity coproducts including steam for heat and fly-ash for cement, noted the researchers in their paper. This is largely due to fact that the small SUV BEV has an electric motor that is 3.1