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US DOE awards more than $175M to 40 projects for advanced vehicle research and development

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This project will develop a new process that enables low-cost, domestic manufacturing of magnesium. This project will develop a novel low cost route to carbon fiber using a lignin/PAN hybrid precursor and carbon fiber conversion technologies leading to high performance, low-cost carbon fiber. Amprius, Inc.

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BATT Program Awards More Than $8 Million for Innovative Research Projects on Lithium Battery Anodes

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The selected projects are: BATT Li-ion Anode Project Awards. Metal-Based High-Capacity Li-Ion Anodes. Pennsylvania State University. An elastic binder polymer with Li-ion conductivity will be used to further accommodate volume change. The total requested funds are $8.54 million over four years.

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ARPA-E Selects 37 Projects for $106M in Funding in Second Round; Electrofuels, Better Batteries and Carbon Capture

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Electrofuels approaches will use organisms able to extract energy from other sources, such as solar-derived electricity or hydrogen or earth-abundant metal ions. The critical barrier to wider deployment of electric vehicles is the high cost and low energy of today’s batteries. Electrofuels. BASF, LBNL, PNNL).

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ARPA-E awards $37M for IONICS projects; improving solid-state batteries and fuel cells

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) announced $37 million in funding for 16 innovative new projects as part of a new ARPA-E program: Integration and Optimization of Novel Ion-Conducting Solids ( IONICS ). Li-ion conductors that enable the cycling of Li metal without shorting.

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ARPA-E awards $43M to 19 energy storage projects to advance electric vehicle and grid technologies

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measurement capabilities and lowering the cost of electric. Temperature Regulation for Lithium-Ion Cells. cost associated with thermal management. environment of a lithium-ion battery in real-time. Pennsylvania State University. Pennsylvania State University is developing an innovative. Oak Ridge National.

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NETL investigating researching chemistries for large-scale battery- and supercapacitor-based grid energy storage systems

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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. Magnesium is much more abundant in the Earth’s crust, making it less expensive than Li by a factor of 24. Earlier post.)

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ARPA-E Awards $151M to 37 Projects for Transformative Energy Research

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Eagle Picher, in partnership with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will develop a new generation of high energy, low cost planar liquid sodium beta batteries for grid scale electrical power storage applications. Low Cost, High Energy and Power Density, Nanotube-Enhanced Ultracapacitors. DOE grant: $7,200,000).

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