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billion in 2015 to $30.6 This figure could be higher if emerging 48V micro-hybrid technology delivers on its promise of fuel efficiency at a lowcost increment and a significant number of OEMs choose to implement it with Li-ion battery packs, Navigant said. GWh in 2015 to 93.1 billion in 2024.
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are working to develop technology for producing carbon fiber at lowcost. The new production line will have an annual capacity of 5,500 tons and become fully operational in 2015. A new heat-treatment process makes it possible to form steel tubes into complicated shapes while at the same time makes the tubes 150% stronger.
million in funding from ARPA-E in 2016 to further the development of the next generation of high-energy-density, low-cost batteries ( earlier post ), has raised a $21.8 24M , part of a team that received $3.5 Yet-Ming Chiang, a professor of Material Science and Engineering at MIT and one of the top battery researchers in the world.
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