Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2022

An international team of researchers led by Quanguan Pang at Peking University and Donald Sadoway at MIT reports a bidirectional, rapidly charging aluminum–chalcogen battery operating with a molten-salt electrolyte composed of NaCl–KCl–AlCl 3. But this particular salt, it happens, is very good at preventing that malfunction.

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Molten Salt Low Cost Recharge MIT 186

Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2018

The selected organizations (and project descriptions) from this first call selection are: University of Connecticut. Penn State University. The proposed idea is to build a small scale process simulator, with both machinery and software components, which mimics aspects of a smart manufacturing system for educational purposes.

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Manufacturer Cleaning Clean Energy 191

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Established in 2012 as a spin-out company from the University of Colorado Boulder, Solid Power is focused on developing and scaling competitive solid-state batteries, paying special attention to safety, performance, and cost. The battery developer recently moved into a state-of-the-art facility in Louisville, Colorado.

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BMW Lithium Sulfur Power Powered 170

Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2009

The National Alliance for Advanced Transportation Batteries (NAATBatt) ( earlier post ) has selected a site in Hardin County, Kentucky to build a more than $600-million automotive lithium-ion battery plant. Kentucky was selected over Texas, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, New York, Pennsylvania and South Carolina. Earlier post.).

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Li-ion Kentucky Transportation Lithium Ion 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

35 new businesses, non-profits, universities, and utilities signing on to DOE’s Workplace Charging Challenge and committing to provide electric vehicle charging access for their workforce. Louisville Gas & Electric and Kentucky Utilities. Binghamton University (State University of New York). University of Texas at Austin.

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Obama Charging Financing Alternative Fuels 150

Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

This week, we're at the DARPA SubTerranean Challenge Finals in Louisville KY, where more than two dozen Systems Track and Virtual Track teams will compete for millions of dollars in prize money and being able to say "we won a DARPA challenge," which is of course priceless. University of Nevada, Reno. University of California, Berkeley.

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Czech Republic Switzerland USA Universal 118

Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2016

In collaboration with the Department of Defense, the newest manufacturing institute will focus on building US leadership in smart collaborative robotics, where advanced robots work alongside humans seamlessly, safely, and intuitively to do the heavy lifting on an assembly line or handle with precision, intricate or dangerous tasks.

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Manufacturer Los Angeles Oregon Connecticut 150

Cars That Think

APRIL 24, 2022

Deep below the Louisville, Ky., By the time teams reached the SubT Final Event in the Louisville Mega Cavern, the focus was on autonomy rather than communications. In addition to building many customized tunnels and structures inside the Louisville Mega Cavern, DARPA also incorporated the cavern itself into the course.

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Louisville Environment Nevada Universal 134

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Small long-term evaluation program, including modeling of vehicle-to-grid building benefits and economics, begun with Southern California Edison, joined by EPRI, other utilities, US DOE. The expansion will add an assembly line to build lithium batteries for automotive applications. Establishing dealer network. Batteries not ready.

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Plug-in Plug Hybrid Lithium Ion 45