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Electrochemical energy storage startup SPARKZ licenses ORNL cobalt-free battery tech

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Stealth-mode electrochemical energy storage startup SPARKZ Inc. has exclusively licensed five battery technologies from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) designed to eliminate the use of cobalt metal in lithium-ion batteries. —SPARKZ Inc. CEO Sanjiv Malhotra. SPARKZ Inc.

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BMW’s GM of battery cell technology joins Wildcat Discovery’s board

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Wildcat Discovery Technologies, a technology company that uses proprietary high-throughput methods to develop new battery materials rapidly, announced that Dr. Peter Lamp, General Manager of the Battery Cell Technology Group at BMW AG, has joined its Board of Directors. One example is Wildcat’s CM3. Currently, 5V LiNi 0.5

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Pellion Technologies leveraging high throughput computational materials design to make progress on Mg-ion rechargeable batteries

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Last week’s 4 th Symposium on Energy Storage: Beyond Lithium-ion , hosted by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), brought together researchers tackling the “Beyond Li-ion” problem by working on a number of different platforms (e.g., However, Mg-ion batteries have suffered from a number of limitations.

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Rio Tinto to invest ~$200M to progress the Jadar lithium project to feasibility study stage; jaderite

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The unique mineral— jadarite —was discovered by Rio Tinto geologists in 2004 near the city of Loznica in Western Serbia. The project has the potential to supply the world with a significant amount of end-industrial products for lithium batteries for electric vehicles and energy storage facilities.

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OSU team demonstrates concept of potassium-air battery as alternative to lithium-air systems

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O 2 battery (0.5 The dash lines indicate the calculated thermodynamic potentials for the batteries. O 2 ) battery with low overpotentials. mA/cm 2 —the lowest ever reported in metal-oxygen batteries, according to the team. mA/cm 2 —the lowest ever reported in metal-oxygen batteries, according to the team.

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GM Ventures invests in battery-electric bus company Proterra

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a leading maker of battery-electric commercial transit buses. Proterra’s EcoRide BE-35 battery electric bus ( earlier post ) is averaging up to 24 mpg (diesel equivalent) in service, a more than 600% improvement over a typical diesel bus. was founded in 2004 and is currently manufacturing buses in a temporary plant in Greenville, S.C.

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SAE Hybrid Standards Committee: Works In Progress For 2009

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Fuel economy and electrical energy usage will not be combined under J1711 to make a composite efficiency metric for plug-in hybrids. Instead, fuel usage and watt-hours per mile will be stated separately, with the baseline charging assumption being one energy storage charge per day for each vehicle being tested. laboratories.

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