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Hydro-Québec and Technifin form partnership to license lithium titanate spinel oxide (LTO) technologies for Li-ion battery applications

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The Hydro-Québec/Technifin LTO patents comprise two separate groups of patent rights affording extensive worldwide protection for LTO technology.

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CalSEED awards $4.2M to early-stage clean energy innovations

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Cyclonatix, Inc is developing an industrial-sized motor/controller to operate with either DC or AC power sources, for applications in electric vehicles, solar-powered pumps, HVAC&R, gas compressors, and other commercial and industrial machines which require high efficiency, variable speed/torque, and low cost. rechargeable battery?technology?that

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Top 5 Promising Technological Developments In The Electric Vehicle Sector

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Along with sodium-based alternatives, could soon supplant the seemingly obsolete lithium-ion battery. #2. Having a good infrastructure for recharging electric cars very important to increase electric vehicle mobility globally. Improvement in charging technology.

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DOE Awarding $620M for Smart Grid Demonstration and Energy Storage Projects

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Center for the Commercialization of Electric Technologies (TX). This effort will build on Austin Energy’s existing Smart Grid programs by creating a microgrid that will initially link 1,000 residential smart meters, 75 commercial meters, and plug-in electric vehicle charging sites. 24,978,264. 53,510,209. Beacon Power Corporation (MA).

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Sadoway and MIT team demonstrate calcium-metal-based liquid metal battery

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MIT professor Donald Sadoway and his team have demonstrated a long-cycle-life calcium-metal-based liquid-metal rechargeable battery for grid-scale energy storage, overcoming the problems that have precluded the use of the element: its high melting temperature, high reactivity and unfavorably high solubility in molten salts. Earlier post.).

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ARPA-E awards $43M to 19 energy storage projects to advance electric vehicle and grid technologies

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optimize the operation of commercial-scale hybrid electric. more cost-effective solution for commercial vehicles. flow battery chemistry to develop an efficient and affordable. sources like solar and wind for small commercial and. Advanced Sodium Battery. MSRI will design advanced sodium battery membranes that.

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How Umicore is ensuring sustainability in the North American EV battery chain

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The company expects the first commercial applications to appear around 2027. Robert Privette: Rechargeable batteries are among the building blocks for the green energy transition. Q&A with Umicore’s Robert Privette Umicore traces its roots to a Belgian mining company formed in 1906.