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NIMS researchers report 500 Wh/kg+ Li-air battery

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Because of these potential advantages, they may find use in a wide range of technologies, such as drones, electric vehicles and household electricity storage systems. This program has been funded by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) with the goal of accelerating large-capacity rechargeable battery R&D.

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ICL model predicts lithium-ion batteries most competitive for storage applications by 2030

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levelized cost)—as opposed to the investment cost—of 9 electricity storage technologies for 12 different applications between 2015 and 2050. Oliver Schmidt, Sylvain Melchior, Adam Hawkes, Iain Staffell (2018) “Projecting the Future Levelized Cost of Electricity Storage Technologies,” Joule doi: 10.1016/j.joule.2018.12.008.

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Impact Clean Power Technology unveils visualization of GigafactoryX; 4 GWh/year by 2027

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Upon completion of the investment in Poland, batteries will be made for various types of electric vehicles, including those serving public transportation, such as e-buses, e-trucks and the railway sector. The factory will be certified to IATF 16949:2016, ISO 45001:2018 and ISO 14001.:2015,

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Japan V2G demonstrator project using EVs as virtual power plant resource; METI funding

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Scope of demonstration system to be built in FY 2018. Commencing today, the project aims to build a vehicle-to-grid (V2G) system, and through this a business model that utilizes the electricity storage capabilities of multiple EV/PHEVs to regulate power demand and supply between the grid and electric vehicles.

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ARPA-E issues $100M OPEN funding opportunity announcement to support early-stage energy R&D

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Technologied that apply thermal storage, and non-battery electric storage, such as supercapacitors and others, specifically for transportation applications. The deadline to submit a concept paper is 12 February 2018. Transportation energy categories that do no fit one of the above categories.

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GM researchers demonstrate hierarchical electrode architectures for high energy lithium-chalcogen rechargeable batteries

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lithium-sulfur (Li-S) and lithium selenium (Li-Se) systems— are promising candidates for high energy electrical storage solution. Lithium-chalcogen batteries—e.g., Fang Dai, Jingmei Shen, Anne Dailly, Michael P. 2018.07.015.

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U of Illinois team models capabilities of hybrid-electric propulsion systems for general aviation aircraft

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We’re harnessing only a small fraction of that energy but we currently don’t have electrical storage systems that can compete with that. Ansell (2018) “Mission Analysis and Component-Level Sensitivity Study of Hybrid-Electric General-Aviation Propulsion Systems” Journal of Aircraft doi: 10.2514/1.C034635. C034635.

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