Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2009

General schematic of a lithium-air battery. Leveraging expertise in materials science, nanotechnology, green chemistry and supercomputing, scientists at IBM Research’s Almaden lab in San Jose, California, are undertaking a multi-year research initiative around a grid-scale, efficient, affordable electrical energy storage network.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The Vehicle Technologies Office funds a broad portfolio of early-stage research to develop new affordable, efficient and clean transportation options to enable industry to accelerate the development and widespread use of a variety of innovative transportation technologies.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2021

Awardees across 12 projects will focus on developing next-generation lithium batteries with improved lifespan, safety, and affordability; improving the performance and durability of electrolytes that carry ions within batteries; and increasing the power density of electric drive systems. Total award amount: $28.1 Penn State University.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2021

The new application was found somewhat serendipitously, after it had initially been developed a few years ago by MIT professor Yang Shao-Horn, Johnson, and others, in a collaborative venture aimed at lithium-air battery development. There’s still really nothing that allows a good rechargeable lithium-air battery.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2011

As well as developing materials for lithium-ion batteries, including solutions for anodes and separators, BASF is also researching future battery concepts such as lithium-sulfur or lithium-air. Earlier post.). This will include government-sponsored research and development programs. —Andreas Kreimeyer.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Although currently a price under ¥10 million (US$120,000) seems attainable, TMC aims to further reduce costs to bring the vehicle to market at a more-affordable price. TMC is researching development of next-generation secondary batteries with performance that greatly exceeds that of lithium-ion batteries.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

President Obama announced the DOE “Clean Energy Grand Challenge” in March 2012 with the goal of enabling US companies to be the first in the world to produce plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) that are as affordable and convenient for the average American family as today’s gasoline-powered vehicles within the next 10 years. Earlier post.).

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