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DECEMBER 1, 2011

For vehicle applications, it is desirable to have devices with high energy density, high power density, long cycle and shelf life, and low cost. Super-capacitors are considered one of the newest innovations in the field of electrical energy storage. The University of Exeter. The University of Nottingham.

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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. Funds for the 13 projects come from the Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) program. This technology would increase efficiency and lower production costs.

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JULY 8, 2011

improved performance, safety, long life, and low cost. The three industry teams working with NREL are: EC Power, Penn State University, Johnson Controls, Inc., Selected teams will contribute 50% of the costs of the project over the next three years bringing the overall project budget to $14 million. aging data as input.

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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. —Atul Kapadia.

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AUGUST 15, 2014

Researchers at the Institute of Transportation Studies University of California, Davis suggest that a number of positive trends indicate that we may be seeing the beginning of a real hydrogen transition in transportation, despite earlier starts that fizzled.

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AUGUST 4, 2014

This project, which began in August 2011, was co-funded by the US DOE’s Vehicle Technologies Office, and was part of the competitive Computer Aided Engineering of electric drive Batteries ( CAEBAT ) activity launched by DOE in 2010. —Ahmad Pesaran, Energy Storage Group Manager in NREL’s Transportation and Hydrogen Systems Center.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has selected 60 research projects for up to a combined $156 million in funding from the Fiscal Year 2011 budget. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. to produce useful, high-energy fuel molecules directly within. light energy.

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MAY 2, 2011

Supercapacitors in aqueous solutions are low-cost energy storage devices with high cycling stability and fast charging and discharging capabilities, but suffer from low energy densities. The resulting supercapacitor showed a high energy density of ~48 Wh/kg at a power density of ~0.23 Wang et al.

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OCTOBER 3, 2011

Researchers at Stanford University led by Professors Yi Cui and Zhenan Bao have developed a “conductive wrapping” method that greatly improves the supercapacitor performance of hybrid graphene/MnO 2 (GM)-based nanostructured electrodes. —Yu et al.

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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., Credit: Cao et al. Click to enlarge. makes them a promising candidate to construct a viable and.

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JULY 17, 2015

Frank is Professor Emeritus, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of California, Davis, where he established the Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis), and was director of the US Department of Energy’s National Center of Hybrid Excellence at UC Davis. Table of Contents. Engineering Advantages of PHEV.

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MARCH 28, 2015

A patent related to this work was filed in January of this year, titled “High-Energy Cathodes for Lithium Rechargeable Batteries.” The patent positions this metal fluoride as a low-cost upgrade for the cathodes in existing Li-ion batteries and is aimed at possible commercial applications. —Feng Wang. Grey, Glenn G.

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APRIL 21, 2009

Shifted earlier focus to all-electric Focus in 2011 with Magna. Committed to sales of 10,000 or more vehicles in late 2010, with increasing production in 2011. Hybrid Sonata model year 2011, possible PHEV version in 2013. Plans Cadillac Converj, Opel Ampera, other versions. Plans Cadillac Converj, Opel Ampera, other versions.

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