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JANUARY 23, 2023

Sakuú, the developer of 3D-printed Swift Print solid-state battery technology ( earlier post ), has selected Porsche Consulting, a subsidiary of the automotive manufacturer Porsche, to lead all aspects of design for its planned global gigafactories.

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OCTOBER 12, 2022

General Motors introduced Ultium Home and Ultium Commercial, which in combination with the existing Ultium Charge 360, create an ecosystem of energy management products and services that will be housed under a new business unit called GM Energy.

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JUNE 2, 2023

Medha Group, a supplier of vehicle traction systems and related electronics based in Hyderabad, India, and Leclanché SA, a provider of energy storage solutions, have agreed to market their technologies jointly in the railroad and commercial truck markets. Its ECE R100.2

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

Proterra has opened a new battery production line co-located in its EV bus manufacturing facility in Los Angeles County. The new battery production line will manufacture Proterra’s battery packs featuring next-generation cells.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Stealth-mode electrochemical energy storage startup SPARKZ Inc. has exclusively licensed five battery technologies from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) designed to eliminate the use of cobalt metal in lithium-ion batteries. Energy density is especially important for EVs. —SPARKZ Inc.

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APRIL 9, 2023

The Megafactory is planned to initially produce up to 10,000 units of commercial energy storage batteries per year, with an energy storage scale of nearly 40 GWh, and the product will be available to the global markets.

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JANUARY 23, 2019

BDS produces and commercializes MOLECULAR REBAR, a proprietary technology of modified carbon nanotubes that offers potential for enhancing the performance of energy storage applications using lead-acid and lithium-ion batteries. BDS was founded in 2014 as a joint venture between SABIC Ventures US LLC and Molecular Rebar Design.

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JULY 18, 2018

Southwest Research Institute has opened a new Energy Storage Technology Center , bringing its diverse scientific research, development and evaluation of energy storage systems under one roof. We now have 10 times the laboratory space devoted to energy storage research and testing.

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JUNE 12, 2023

The shipping containers, which house a Frankenstein-like assortment of machine parts—motors repurposed from Volvo truck engines, giant tanks of compressed air, huge silos of piping hot sand—are produced by a company called Cheesecake Energy. Despite its name, Cheesecake Energy isn’t in the food business.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Eos Energy, a provider of safe, scalable, efficient, and sustainable zinc-powered long-duration stationary energy storage systems, announced Project AMAZE (American Made Zinc Energy), a $500-million planned expansion and a significant milestone to build 8 GWh of clean energy storage production capacity.

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AUGUST 11, 2021

Power management company Eaton’s Vehicle Group has developed a series of 48-volt technologies to assist its global on- and off-highway commercial vehicle customers transitioning from traditional 12- and 24-volt vehicle systems to systems that include 48-volt architecture. —Ben Karrer. Eaton supercaps.

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JANUARY 6, 2014

A123 Energy Solutions announced today that a new 2-megawatt Grid Storage Solution for Ray Power Systems Co. a Beijing-based energy services company, is now in commercial operation providing frequency regulation services. Located in Beijing, this is A123 Energy Solutions’ first deployment in China in commercial operation.

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MAY 27, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced partnering opportunities for industry to work with National Laboratories on manufacturing scale-up and associated verification and validation for flow batteries and solid-state lithium batteries. ( There are significant barriers to overcome before commercial use.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Volta, an electric vehicle (EV) charging and media company, announced that a project application it collaborated on with Imagen Energy, a developer of compact high-power EV chargers, was awarded a $12-million grant from the US Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). Earlier post.).

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FEBRUARY 8, 2022

With the final site approval, NEO has now additionally doubled the initial target annual silicon anode production capacity to 240 tons on the same mass-production lines and has consequently renamed the semi-commercial plant into a commercial-scale plant facility to accommodate for industry capacity standards.

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MARCH 24, 2023

The technology group Wärtsilä and WEC Energy Group have successfully tested the capabilities of a Wärtsilä engine running on 25 vol% hydrogen-blended fuel. The tests, which were completed in October 2022, were conducted at WEC Energy Group’s 55 MW A.J. Mihm power plant in Michigan using an unmodified Wärtsilä 18V50SG engine.

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JANUARY 24, 2023

TAE Technologies , the world’s largest private fusion energy company, has spun-out a new subsidiary, TAE Power Solutions. TAE Power Solutions intends to deliver a novel technology to improve fundamentally the reliability, efficiency, longevity, and affordability of electric-powered products, from vehicles to renewable energy storage.

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OCTOBER 23, 2017

Hydro-Québec and the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have agreed to explore collaborations toward the research and development of manufacturing and scale-up technology to advance transportation electrification and energy storage. of sales in 2018, climbing to 15.5%

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JANUARY 16, 2023

Hanwha Group and LG Energy Solution (LGES) will invest in building battery production facilities in the United States. The joint investment will pave the way for Hanwha to lead the rapidly-growing energy storage market and future Urban Air Mobility business. They include enclosure, heat management and other balance of system.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

The Faraday Institution will award up to £55 million (US$67 million) to five UK-based consortia to conduct application-inspired research to make step changes in battery chemistries, systems and manufacturing methods. The five new projects are: Next generation electrode manufacturing–Nextrode.

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AUGUST 15, 2022

Tesla’s Megapack will power one of the company’s biggest production plants as the automaker and energy company has landed approval for a massive battery energy storage system (BESS) project at Gigafactory Texas, filings show. acres in size. The City of Austin currently has the site plan listed as “Pending.”

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MARCH 13, 2020

Commercial fast-charging stations subject electric car batteries to high temperatures and high resistance that can cause them to crack, leak, and lose their storage capacity, according to researchers at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) in a new open-access study published in the journal Energy Storage.

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OCTOBER 10, 2021

The US Department of Energy announced Stage 1 winners of the Conductivity-enhanced materials for Affordable, Breakthrough Leapfrog Electric and thermal applications ( CABLE ) Conductor Manufacturing Prize. The 10 teams selected in Stage 1 of this $4.5-million, The 10 teams selected in Stage 1 of this $4.5-million,

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MARCH 20, 2021

Hydro-Québec’s Center of Excellence in Transportation Electrification and Energy Storage (CETEES) and the University of South Wales (USW) have signed commercial agreements to transfer patented hydrogen storage technology arising from USW research to Hydro-Québec to enable its commercialization.

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APRIL 14, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) issued a $16-million lab call ( DE-LC-0000027 ) for proposals to strengthen domestic capabilities in solid-state and flow battery manufacturing. The Lab Call contains two topic areas: Topic 1: Developing Innovative Solid-State Battery Manufacturing Capabilities.

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AUGUST 26, 2020

Proterra unveiled its newest series of battery packs, the H Series, which offers a customizable energy storage system to power a wide range of heavy-duty commercial vehicles. Proterra manufactured the more compact H Series battery packs with a width of 620 mm and the ability to hold 25-75 kWh of energy storage capacity.

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MARCH 11, 2023

UP Catalyst’s electrode material also exhibits excellent stability and improved energy density, making it a promising candidate for large-scale energy storage applications. We are thrilled with the results of these tests and the potential they hold for the future of energy storage.

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MARCH 11, 2021

ion Ventures, a modern utility and energy storage infrastructure specialist, and LiNa Energy , a solid-state battery technology developer, concluded their first successful trial of LiNa’s proprietary solid-state sodium-nickel battery platform at an undisclosed location in South East England last week.

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APRIL 6, 2022

million contract for 20 Proterra ZX5 Max electric transit buses, featuring more than 13 megawatt hours of battery storage energy, and two Proterra megawatt-scale fleet chargers. Designed and manufactured in the United States, Proterra’s electric transit buses are equipped with the company’s own battery technology systems.

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DECEMBER 5, 2013

The Battery Innovation Center (BIC)—a non-profit consortium of organizations focused on the rapid development, testing and commercialization of safe and reliable energy storage systems—has announced a Request for Proposal (RFP) for the development of new energy storage systems.

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JULY 27, 2016

Maxwell Technologies, a leading developer and manufacturer of ultracapacitor-based energy storage and power delivery solutions, announced that its ultracapacitors are used for regenerative braking energy storage in the Beijing subway system.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced approximately $187 million in funding, including $48 million of cost-share, for 55 projects in 25 states to support innovative advanced manufacturing research and development. These projects address high-impact manufacturing technology, materials, and process challenges. Of the $65.9

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JUNE 13, 2014

China Wanxiang Holding announced the planned formation of a joint venture between its wholly-owned subsidiary, Puxing Energy, and NEC Corporation to pursue grid energy storage opportunities in the Chinese market. Its formation is an important element of the recently announced NEC acquisition of A123 Energy Solutions.

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DECEMBER 2, 2013

has developed a container-type energy storage system as a core energy product for ensuring the stable use of distributed renewable energy such as wind and solar power, while maintaining the power supply-demand balance. The Hitachi Group has been involved in the energy storage business over several decades.

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MAY 4, 2023

The companies have initiated the partnership with a non-recurring engineering (NRE) agreement to develop low-carbon technology for the conversion of critical metals—first virgin and later recycled material—into battery-grade cathode active material (CAM) precursors, which are essential to 6K Energy’s advanced cathode manufacturing.

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APRIL 1, 2014

WHP specializes in the design and manufacture of composite flywheel-based energy storage systems, initially focused on the bus, truck and tram markets. GKN plc, the global engineering group, has acquired Williams Hybrid Power Limited (WHP) from Williams Grand Prix Engineering Limited. million (US$13.3 Earlier post.).

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MAY 1, 2013

Struggling electric vehicle manufacturer CODA Holdings, Inc. has filed a voluntary petition under Chapter 11 in the US Bankruptcy Court, District of Delaware (Petition Nº 13-11153) to enable the reorganization of its business solely around energy storage based on its Li-ion battery systems.

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