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ARPA-E awarding $36M to 22 projects in RANGE program for transformative EV storage

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ARPA-E’s RANGE program seeks to improve EV driving range and reduce vehicle costs by re-envisioning the total EV battery system, rather than working to increase the energy density of individual battery cells. For example, the University of California, San Diego will receive approximately $3.5 University of Houston.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

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Around the same time, however, General Motors and other automakers were in the process of decommissioning their battery EV fleets, the key component of V2G. As utilities shifted to more reliable alternating-current systems, they phased out these costly backup batteries.

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Toyota: Prius PHEV Fuel Economy Not Yet Available

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Toyota’s current plug-ins are: being used for auto show displays, brief demonstrations and university studies. They are very early “converted” prototypes using double nickel-metal hydride batteries.

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Packaging second-life EV batteries into a plug-and-play energy storage system

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Q&A with Smartville CEO and co-founder Antoni Tong What do EV batteries have in common with athletes and politicians? Once they age out (or get voted out) of their positions, they have the opportunity to have a lucrative (and in the case of batteries, useful) second career. Charged : Let’s start at step one.

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Expert panel report finds achieving 1M plug-in vehicles in US by 2015 would require concentrated action to overcome barriers

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A new study sponsored by Indiana University concludes that President Obama’s vision of one million plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) on US roads by 2015 will require concentrated efforts action from all stakeholders— the auto industry, federal government, the scientific community, and consumers—to be realized.

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The Business of Plugging In: Building the Full Ecosystem for a Successful Plug-in Vehicle Industry in the US

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Topics covered the expected gamut of policy (especially carbon policy), infrastructure, batteries and consumers. Therefore it is important that auto manufacturers, policy makers and electric utilities work together very closely. Infrastructure, recharging and business models. —Peter Darbee. kW—about three times the load.

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America’s lithium laws fail to keep pace with rapid development – ET Auto

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soils, how the battery metal should be valued by regulators and who ultimately should pay to process it into a form usable by manufacturers. “We’re taking a measured approach to Texas,” said Robert Mintak, Standard’s CEO. But Standard can’t touch that lithium until regulations are set.