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ALABC lead-acid UltraBattery Civic hybrid surpasses 100,000 miles of fleet duty

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In a project co-funded by the US Department of Energy and managed by Ecotality North America, the Advanced Lead Acid Battery Consortium (ALABC) has demonstrated the durability of lead-carbon batteries in the high-rate, partial state-of-charge operation of a hybrid electric vehicle.

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UT Arlington project for Navy investigating how batteries age when run at high rates

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David Wetz, associate professor of electrical engineering, is principal investigator for an $801,224 Office of Naval Research grant that investigates how batteries age when they’re run at high rates. A $320,000 ONR grant to understand the challenges faced when implementing a 1000 volts-direct-current lithium-ion battery.

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Axion Power Awarded $380K from ALABC to Pursue PbC Technology Tests

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Axion Power International, Inc has received a pair of grants totalling approximately $380,000 from the Advanced Lead-Acid Battery Consortium, (ALABC). These grants follow the announcement of a grant from the State of Pennsylvania to advance demonstrations of the PbC systems in HEVs, PHEVs (plug-in electric vehicles) and EVs.

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Axion Power Enters Worldwide Supply Agreement with Exide Technologies for PbC Batteries

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has signed a definitive Memorandum of Understanding for a multi-year, global supply relationship with Alpharetta, GA-based Exide Technologies for the purchase of Axion PbC batteries—multi-celled asymmetrically supercapacitive lead-acid-carbon hybrid batteries ( earlier post )—and other Axion technologies.

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Axion supplying PbC batteries to Norfolk Southern for all-battery switcher and working on line-haul hybrid locomotives; micro-hybrid and stationary expansion

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year involvement with NS, which also includes the parallel development of a hybrid system for line-haul locomotives, noted Axion Power Chairman & CEO Thomas Granville. The contract is also a milestone in NS’ quest for a battery/hybrid locomotive, which reaches back a number of years to the Green Goat effort. Earlier post.).

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New “convection battery” could significantly increase performance of existing as well as new, improved battery chemistries

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Typical applications of the new convection battery would be plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and electric grid energy storage, they suggested. However, for larger batteries, the savings in separator and cathode intercalation material costs can more than offset the cost of a pump.

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