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UC Davis Researchers Suggest the Battery Problem Seen to Be Slowing Electric Drive Commercialization Is Perceptual as Well as Technological

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Distribution of battery requirements for consumer-selected PHEV designs (shaded circles) compared to USABC, MIT and EPRI performance requirements. The USABC specifies two PHEV designs to guide its battery requirements: an AE-10 crossover and AE-40 mid-sized car. EPRI assumes PHEVs to be AE-20 and AE-60 mid-size cars.

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Pike Research forecasts worldwide grid energy storage spending to reach $22B by 2021, down from 2010 forecast of $35B

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Thus, the ancillary services forecasts are based on a value of power ($/kW). In December 2010, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) revised its methodology and cost figures for technologies within specific applications. The cost figures that Pike Research bases its forecast on have also changed.