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AUGUST 5, 2011

The University of Michigan (U-M) and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) have selected six research teams to share $1.05 The energy projects aim to improve wind turbines and electric vehicle batteries and to better understand the combustion physics of biofuels. Physics foundation for controlling biofuel sprays.

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JUNE 14, 2019

Natron Energy, a developer of new battery cell technology based on Prussian Blue analogue electrodes and a sodium-ion electrolyte, has ( earlier post ), has been awarded a $3-million grant by the California Energy Commission (CEC) for “Advanced Energy Storage for Electric Vehicle Charging Support.”

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AUGUST 4, 2015

3M and LG Chem have entered into a patent license agreement to further expand the use of nickel manganese cobalt oxide (NMC) cathode materials in lithium-ion batteries. 3M’s battery laboratory collaborated with Professor Jeff Dahn and students at Dalhousie University on the NMC technology. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

UK-based materials company Ilika, also a developer of solid-state batteries, is taking part in a three-year project to develop protected anodes for lithium sulfur batteries, led by Johnson Matthey Plc and supported by Innovate UK and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). Stereax Battery Technology.

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MARCH 1, 2017

Replacing a conventional host insertion compound as a cathode by a redox center for plating an alkali-metal cathode provides a safe, low-cost, all-solid-state cell with a large capacity resulting in high energy density and a long cycle life. Using the new glass, the cathode consists of plating the anode alkali-metal (e.g.,

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NOVEMBER 22, 2011

optioned a PNNL-developed method for building titanium oxide and carbon structures that greatly improve the performance of lithium-ion batteries. The new material stores twice as much electricity at high charge/discharge rates as current lithium ion batteries, and creates increased battery capacity and a longer cycle life.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

million) in grants to 16 collaborative research and development projects that focus on achieving significant cuts in CO 2 emissions for vehicle-centric technologies in low carbon vehicles. Technologies supported include ultra lightweight engine designs, advanced battery management systems and the next generation of electric motors.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Researchers at Vanderbilt University have demonstrated that ultrafine sizes (∼4.5 nm, average) of iron pyrite (FeS 2 ) nanoparticles are advantageous to sustain reversible conversion reactions in sodium ion and lithium ion batteries. These substantially improved both the batteries’ cycling and rate capabilities.

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DECEMBER 13, 2013

The California Energy Commission (CEC) is awarding $1,135,862 to 12 small-scale projects to research that will reduce the cost of producing electricity, save energy and improve the environment. The project aims to increase the generation of clean, low cost, efficient energy.

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APRIL 30, 2010

The second round was focused specifically on three areas of technology representing new approaches for advanced microbial biofuels (electrofuels); much higher capacity and less expensive batteries for electric vehicles; and carbon capture. The grants will go to projects in 17 states. NC State University. Columbia University.

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JUNE 7, 2013

The first of the two projects to be managed by Ricardo in California is for Quantum, which received a notice of a proposed grant by the CEC and has partnered with Ricardo, along with Power Solutions International and The University of California, Riverside. Earlier post.).

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JULY 29, 2014

The energy is drawn from the flywheel and converted back into electricity to power the traction motor, which helps accelerate the bus back up to speed, generating fuel savings of more than 20% at a significantly lower cost and weight (60 kg, 132 lbs) than battery hybrid alternatives. million (US$13-million) grant as part of a £15.6-million

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OCTOBER 15, 2019

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have shown for the first time that a low-cost, non-precious metal cobalt phosphide (CoP) catalyst catalyst can split water and generate hydrogen gas for hours on end in the harsh environment of a commercial device.

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AUGUST 26, 2019

A University of Texas at Dallas physicist has teamed with Texas Instruments Inc. So no one has to dig that up to change a battery. The primary hurdles for widespread thermoelectric harvesting have been efficiency and cost, he said. —Professor Lee. He turned to Lee and UT Dallas to further study what the devices could do.

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OCTOBER 10, 2011

The California Energy Commission has awarded $1,585,490 to spur research on projects including a solid-state Li-ion battery system for grid-scale energy storage. to develop and test a 25 kWh prototype battery system based on nanostructured polymer electrolytes. These grants are capped at $95,000. Seeo is contributing $5.6

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NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a new family of anode materials that can double the charge capacity of lithium-ion battery anodes. It is a simple, low-cost approach that can be applied to a broad range of alloy systems with various working ions such as Li, Na, or Mg.

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MARCH 15, 2010

Researchers have developed a new high-performance anode structure for lithium-ion batteries based on silicon-carbon nanocomposite materials. The synthesis process is simple, low-cost, safe and broadly applicable, they say, providing new avenues for the rational engineering of electrode materials with enhanced conductivity and power.

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MARCH 6, 2012

Other silicon anode projects supported by the DOE includes those being done by Amprius, Angstrom Materials and NC State University. Consequently, the market may be poised for the entrance of a first wave of higher-energy density—and lower-cost—automotive Si-C cells in the 2014 or 2015 timeframe. (As Envia Systems.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Strategies to promote adoption of hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) with small battery packs offer more social benefits (i.e., Although gasoline production and combustion produce significant emissions, battery and electricity production emissions. Michalek and colleagues. Michalek et al.

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AUGUST 7, 2022

In partnership with key universities, four companies—Bluecity, GEKOT Inc., GEKOT Inc, has partnered with Razor USA and Oakland University (OU) to help address this need. GEKOT will integrate its technical solutions package into Razor electric scooters soon to be deployed on the campus of Oakland University.

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OCTOBER 30, 2013

Stanford University’s Precourt Institute for Energy, the Precourt Energy Efficiency Center and the TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy have awarded 11 seed grants totaling $2.2 Precourt Institute for Energy grants. Projects include: Trip Estimation Techniques to Better Manage Hybrid Vehicle Batteries.

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DECEMBER 1, 2011

The research has received funding from the EU’s Seventh Framework Program (FP/2007-2013) under grant agreement Nº266391. For vehicle applications, it is desirable to have devices with high energy density, high power density, long cycle and shelf life, and low cost. The University of Exeter. The University of Nottingham.

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JULY 13, 2010

.; and Case Western Reserve University. HRL Laboratories and its partners GM, Va Polytech, ORNL, Teledyne will receive $5,058,803 to develop efficient, compact, and low-cost battery chargers for electric cars.

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AUGUST 6, 2014

In this, it is leveraging its experience with automotive batteries (CAEBAT, earlier post ) and fusion (IPS for ITER). Schulten, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Bernardi (University of Illinois). ALCC grants one year awards. In 2013, 39 ALCC awards were granted, amounting to 1.8 Click to enlarge.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

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. million grant from the DOE, has developed a solution.

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JULY 3, 2010

The University of Michigan and Shanghai Jiao Tong University are awarding a joint research team $200,000 to support a project investigating high-capacity Li-air batteries for electric vehicle applications. Principal investigator: Harry Giles, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan.

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

The awarded grants will go to projects with lead researchers in 17 states. Planar Na-beta Batteries for Renewable Integration and Grid Applications. DOE grant: $7,200,000). DOE grant: $6,949,624). Low Cost, High Energy and Power Density, Nanotube-Enhanced Ultracapacitors. DOE grant:$5,349,932).

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JUNE 24, 2020

Stanford University scientists have proposed a design strategy for electrolytes that enable anode-free Li metal batteries with single-solvent single-salt formations at standard concentrations. A lithium metal battery can hold about twice as much electricity per kilogram as today’s conventional lithium-ion battery.

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MARCH 21, 2013

The California Energy Commission (CEC) approved $5,580,773 for clean-energy transportation projects including biodiesel production, power control electronics for medium-and heavy-duty battery electric vehicles, and buydowns for propane vehicles. Energy Innovations Small Grant (EISG) awards. Motiv Power Systems, Inc. C/e Solutions, Inc.

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MARCH 1, 2010

Researchers at the University of Central Florida’s (UCF) Advanced Materials Processing and Analysis Center (AMPAC) have verified findings by Planar Energy that could lead to significant cost and performance improvements in large format batteries for practical electric vehicles, according to the company.

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JULY 16, 2022

as early as 2050 , according to a recent study by the National Security College of the Australian National University, in Canberra. This timing is particularly significant because the enormous costs required to design and build a submarine are meant to be spread out over at least 60 years. It may come. Meanwhile, the U.S.

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MARCH 9, 2022

Research Center was launched in September, 2020 with a $50-million, 10-year grant from the National Science Foundation with its main purpose to support widespread adoption of electric transportation through developing technologies and clearing barriers leading to low cost, ubiquitous charging infrastructure.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

Sulfur—easily turned into sulfuric acid—is a necessary tool for creating fertilizer and extracting heavy metals from their ores before they can go into batteries, wind turbines, and electric vehicle components. Mining costs skyrocketed, rapidly inflating the element’s market price. A lot of people, they take sulfur for granted.”

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MAY 28, 2012

The work, led by Stanford University’s Dr. Hongjie Dai, and reported in the journal Nature Nanotechnology , could lead to lower-cost alternatives to platinum for use in fuel cells and metal-aire batteries. Developing a low-cost alternative has been a major research goal for several decades. —Hongjie Dai.

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APRIL 1, 2009

The bill requires electric utilities to draw up plans to implement a charging infrastructure for plug-in vehicles (that can include battery swapping, fast charging and other services). These are low-cost reductions in global warming pollution that can be secured by devoting approximately 5% of the allowance value to the program.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2011

This material, together with the low-cost catalysts and injection moulded components developed, offer a prototype stack costing 43% of its PEM counterpart. The HydroGEN project focused on the realization of electrolyzer cost reduction through advances in materials technology and system simplification.

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JANUARY 2, 2012

Accordingly, the use of low-cost transition-metal based catalysts instead of platinum is enabled. The mildly alkaline environment further allows for the use of light aluminum hardware, without risk of corrosion, enabling, in turn, cost-effective manufacturing even at initially low volumes, as well as improved thermal management.

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