Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2021

Volta Energy Technologies is a venture capital firm spun out of the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory focused on investing in breakthrough energy storage and battery innovations. BMW and Ford now share leading positions in the race for solid-state battery-powered electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) will award approximately $36 million to 22 projects to develop transformational electric vehicle (EV) energy storage systems using innovative chemistries, architectures and designs. Advanced Aqueous Lithium-Ion Batteries.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2014

The FOA will give equal consideration to all proposals submitted, including submissions that address the following Areas of Interest: Energy Storage R&D. VTO is seeking projects that address the major challenges to developing and commercializing batteries for plug?in per pound of weight saved, which could include very low?cost

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2013

That is about three times as much power per square centimeter as other membrane-less system—a power density that is an order of magnitude higher than that of many lithium-ion batteries and other commercial and experimental energy-storage systems. One such permutation is the hydrogen bromine flow battery.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

The upcoming FOA may include the following areas of interest (AOI): Advanced Technology Battery Cell Development. Analysis suggests that cost parity between electric drive and internal combustion vehicles is possible under certain scenarios when battery pack costs fall below $125/kWh (useable energy).

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Carbon Fiber Vehicles Nickel Lithium Low Cost 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2014

Source: Power Japan Plus. Start-up Power Japan Plus announced plans to commercialize a dual-carbon battery technology, which it calls the Ryden dual carbon battery. Power Japan Plus will begin benchmark production of 18650 Ryden cells later this year at the company’s production facility in Okinawa, Japan.

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Carbon Commercial Batteries Battery 373

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2014

Key to realizing the potential role for hydrogen in transportation is automakers’ continuing commitment to hydrogen FCVs as a necessary complement to plug-in electric vehicles and a critical component of their long-term strategy to provide vehicles that contribute to energy and climate policy goals.

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Davis Hydrogen Transportation North America 250

Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2010

When incorporated into resins, fuzzy fibers enable composites to be tailored for electrical and thermal conductivity, chemical and biological sensing, energy storage and conversion, thermal management and other properties. This is going to disrupt the way we think about materials. Everybody is growing carbon nanotubes on substrates.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2013

VTO supports a broad technology portfolio aimed at developing and deploying advanced highway transportation technologies to reduce petroleum consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, while meeting or exceeding vehicle performance and cost expectations. Broadly, VTO program activities are focused on achieving: Saving 1.4

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2011

The US Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) is conducting research on alternative options to reduce costs and make large-scale energy storage safer and more practical. Innovative fabrication methods can also lead to significant energy storage system improvements.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Technical topics for this FOA—which span the range of DOE interests from fossil to nuclear to renewable and low-carbon energies—include two hydrogen- and fuel-cell-related topics: fuel cell-battery electric hybrid trucks and in-line quality control devices for polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cells.

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2015 Hydrogen Fuel Batteries 218

Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2011

Classification of potential electrical storage for stationary applications. published in the ACS journal Chemical Reviews , reviews in detail four stationary storage systems considered the most promising candidates for electrochemical energy storage: vanadium redox flow; sodium-beta alumina membrane; lithium-ion; and lead-carbon batteries.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2010

Projected incremental mass due to the energy storage and electricity generation system for (a) a 100- and (b) 300-mile range for a battery electric vehicle and a fuel cell electric vehicle. Packaging and high volume cost analyses of projected technologies are outside of the scope of this Perspective. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2012

Large-scale energy storage is poised to play a critical role in enhancing the stability, security, and reliability of tomorrow’s electrical power grid, including the support of intermittent renewable resources. Sadoway (2012) Magnesium–Antimony Liquid Metal Battery for Stationary Energy Storage.

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MIT Molten Salt Batteries Battery 301

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2017

If successful, the team will greatly increase transformer functionality and reduce size over current technologies, affecting application areas like grid energy storage, solar photovoltaics and electric vehicle fast chargers, while also enabling better grid monitoring and easy retrofits. Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2012

In April, Axion Power International Inc received an order from Norfolk Southern Corp (NS) for PbC lead-carbon batteries for use in an all-battery-powered switcher locomotive. The proposed system uses a very small starter battery, the sole function of which is to start the engine. Source: NS. Click to enlarge.

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Lead Acid Hybrid Batteries Battery 225

Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2011

low-cost Na-ion battery system for upcoming power and energy. storage systems, the team concludes in a paper published in the journal Advanced Materials. To connect intermittent renewable energy sources (i.e., The resulting improved electrical capacity and recharging lifetime of the nanowires.

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Sodium Recharge Li-ion Batteries 218

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APRIL 21, 2009

The F6 DM uses ferrous batteries, with no lithium content, that BYD says are high-energy density and low cost. Some experts predict that such a battery - or a similar battery - could be production-ready by 2010 to 2012.Larry Batteries powerful enough to achieve that would fill up the trunk of a car, he said.

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