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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. in 2004, which he sold to a private equity firm in 2014.

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

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Since 2004, Dr. Lamp has been the leader of the “Technology and Concepts Electric Energy Storage” group and, since 2012, of the “Battery Cell Technology” department at BMW.

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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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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., Earlier post.).

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GM Ventures invests in battery-electric bus company Proterra

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Using technology developed by Proterra, the lightweight, composite-body bus recharges in about 10 minutes. was founded in 2004 and is currently manufacturing buses in a temporary plant in Greenville, S.C. Proterra Inc. near Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research. later this year.

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

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V), which renders the system with a low round-trip energy efficiency around 60%. V), which contributes to the low rechargeability. Potassium, an alkali metal similar to lithium (and sodium) can be used in a rechargeable battery. Ali Eftekhari (2004) Potassium secondary cell based on Prussian blue cathode. O 2 batteries.In

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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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