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Industry study finds lead-acid to remain most wide-spread automotive energy storage for foreseeable future; new chemistries continue to grow

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With regard to overall storage capability and potential for further fuel efficiency improvements, the demand for larger battery systems based on lithium, nickel and sodium will continue to grow through the increased market penetration of vehicles with higher levels of hybridization and electrification. Sodium-nickel chloride batteries.

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GAO: US government obligated $1.3+ billion in 39 battery and energy storage initiatives from FY 2009-2012; fragmented but not duplicative

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GAO focused the review on rechargeable batteries and certain other energy storage technologies; it excluded non-rechargeable batteries, fuel cells, and nuclear energy storage technologies. Accordingly, the program provided loans to two companies to manufacture battery packs for electric cars. Sodium batteries. Capacitors.

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CalSEED awards $4.2M to early-stage clean energy innovations

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The California Sustainable Energy Entrepreneur Development (CalSEED) program announced that the fourth cohort of innovative clean energy concepts has been approved by the California Energy Commission (CEC); 28 companies out of 212 were selected to receive grants of $150,000 each. Details of the 28 companies awarded a total of $4.2

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Can Flow Batteries Finally Beat Lithium?

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The battery in her EV is a variation on the flow battery , a design in which spent electrolyte is replaced rather than recharged. The scientists found the nanofluids could be used in a system with an energy-storing potential approaching that of a lithium-ion battery and with the pumpable recharging of a flow battery.

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Sadoway and MIT team demonstrate calcium-metal-based liquid metal battery

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MIT professor Donald Sadoway and his team have demonstrated a long-cycle-life calcium-metal-based liquid-metal rechargeable battery for grid-scale energy storage, overcoming the problems that have precluded the use of the element: its high melting temperature, high reactivity and unfavorably high solubility in molten salts. Earlier post.).

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How Umicore is ensuring sustainability in the North American EV battery chain

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The company expects the first commercial applications to appear around 2027. Q&A with Umicore’s Robert Privette Umicore traces its roots to a Belgian mining company formed in 1906. Robert Privette: Rechargeable batteries are among the building blocks for the green energy transition.

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

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Ford Motor Company. Ford Motor Company and Arbin Instruments will develop a. today’s thermal sensors, improving internal battery. Battelle will develop an optical sensor to monitor the internal. This internal. sensor will detect the magnitude and location of internal. Advanced Sodium Battery.