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Report: VW Group to decide how to proceed with Quantumscape solid state energy storage by July

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Martin Winterkorn, Chairman of the Board of Management, who spoke outside a press conference in Stuttgart. In its most recent US patent application, published on 12 February 2015 and filed on 6 August 2013, Quantumscape outlined a solid-state Lithium-air battery cell using a garnet electrolyte material. Earlier post.).

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The Net-Zero Neighborhood: Advanced Energy Storage and Highly Efficient Photovoltaics Take Transportation Off the Gasoline Grid and Residential Off the Electric Grid

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The NZN concept relies on high energy density storage systems incorporated into the local grid, as well as efficient photovoltaic generation. Ab initio materials, design, performance, and manufacturing can initially be handled with petascale (1 x 10 15 op/s) computation, Weigand suggests. NZN can integrate with the centralized grid.