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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. Electronville: High-Amperage Energy Storage Device-Energy Storage for the Neighborhood.

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A More Detailed Look at a Prismatic Li-ion Cell and Pack Manufacturing Process

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Many analysts believe that for electric cars to be “subsidy-free competitive” with liquid-fueled cars, the costs still need to come down by a factor of two or three and oil needs to be at $100/barrel. Two modules go into each sub pack and the sub-pack is the line replaceable unit—the entity that is replaced in the field.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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I would say that electricity is a vastly superior fuel for the light vehicle fleet,” said Willett Kempton , a professor and alternative energy specialist at the University of Delaware. Oil is the alternative. Are we going to burn more oil, natural gas, or (gasp) coal to produce it? Alternative is no longer an alternative.

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