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MAY 21, 2012

developer of a low-cost hybrid electric powertrain designed specifically for class 1-3 commercial fleet use ( earlier post ), has signed an agreement with Henley Transmission Services, LLC, the largest franchise holder of AAMCO automotive service centers, to certify AAMCO technicians to install and service XL Hybrids’ hybrid-electric conversions.

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AUGUST 5, 2015

A team of researchers at MIT and Tsinghua University has developed a high-rate, high-capacity and long-lived anode for Li-ion batteries comprising a yolk-shell nanocomposite of aluminum core (30 nm in diameter) and TiO 2 shell (~3 nm in thickness), with a tunable interspace (Al@TiO 2 , or ATO). Earlier post.). —Li et al.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

The American Ceramics Society awarded A123Systems the Corporate Technical Achievement Award for developing breakthrough ceramics that enable new technologies such as stable, high-power, rechargeable batteries that are safer and more powerful than earlier lithium-ion rechargeable varieties.

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AUGUST 10, 2011

This project will optimize fuel-based control of novel combustion strategies in light- and heavy-duty vehicles to enable diesel-like efficiencies with ultra-low engine-out emissions. This project will develop a new process that enables low-cost, domestic manufacturing of magnesium. valve train vs. bearings). Amprius, Inc.

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JUNE 22, 2015

Stealth-mode battery start-up 24M has introduced its new semi-solid lithium-ion cell. Together, our inventions achieve what lithium-ion has yet to do—meet the ultra-low cost targets of the grid and transportation industries. By 2020 our battery costs will be less than $100 a kilowatt-hour (kWh).

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AUGUST 16, 2013

MIT researchers have engineered a new rechargeable, membrane-less hydrogen bromine laminar flow battery with high power density. The rapid and reversible reaction kinetics of both the bromine reduction reaction and the hydrogen oxidation reaction minimize activation losses, while the low cost ($1.39 Credit: Braff et al.

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AUGUST 25, 2022

An international team of researchers led by Quanguan Pang at Peking University and Donald Sadoway at MIT reports a bidirectional, rapidly charging aluminum–chalcogen battery operating with a molten-salt electrolyte composed of NaCl–KCl–AlCl 3. —Pang et al. —Pang et al. —Donald Sadoway.

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MAY 26, 2011

Scheme of the semi-solid flow cell (SSFC) system using flowing lithium-ion cathode and anode suspensions. Even the highest energy density lithium ion cells currently available, e.g., 2.8–2.9 However, they currently use low energy density chemistries limited by electrolysis to ≈1.5 Source: Duduta et al.

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JUNE 25, 2012

XL Hybrids’ hybrid electric powertrain is a low-cost, low-risk, bolt-on, post-transmission parallel hybrid technology designed for Class 1–3 commercial vehicles that integrates seamlessly with the conventional internal combustion engine and transmission. XL Hybrids was founded by MIT alumni and is based in Boston.

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APRIL 16, 2018

Researchers led by a team at UC Berkeley have demonstrated high-capacity manganese-rich cathodes for advanced lithium-ion batteries. The work was a collaboration between scientists at UC Berkeley, Berkeley Lab, Argonne National Lab, MIT and UC Santa Cruz. …

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APRIL 30, 2010

The aerobic microbe has been engineered at MIT and is capable of converting a variety of organic compounds into oil, from which biodiesel may be produced. The critical barrier to wider deployment of electric vehicles is the high cost and low energy of today’s batteries. Harvard, Univ. of Delaware). Michigan State).

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MARCH 23, 2016

MIT professor Donald Sadoway and his team have demonstrated a long-cycle-life calcium-metal-based liquid-metal rechargeable battery for grid-scale energy storage, overcoming the problems that have precluded the use of the element: its high melting temperature, high reactivity and unfavorably high solubility in molten salts. Ouchi et al.

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Molten Salt MIT Batteries Battery 150

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The MIT will develop a new generation of power electronics based on vertical gallium nitride (GaN) superjunction diodes and transistors that can vastly exceed the performance of today’s GaN power devices. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 8" GaN-on-Si Super Junction Devices for Next Generation Power Electronics - $4,521,601.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2012

sunlight through low-cost, plastic light-guiding sheets and then. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will develop a. deployed remotely, MIT’s reformer could be used for small, remote sources of gas. If successful, the new crop would have a lower cost of. Turbo-POx For Ultra Low-Cost Gasoline.

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APRIL 21, 2009

The F6 DM uses ferrous batteries, with no lithium content, that BYD says are high-energy density and low cost. GMs program relies on lithium-ion battery technology that Gioia called "cost, weight and package prohibitive." BYD also developed the motors and software for the system. I think that our No.

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