{"id":2555,"date":"2010-12-23T13:05:53","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T18:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=2555"},"modified":"2010-12-23T13:05:53","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T18:05:53","slug":"contracts-awarded-for-advanced-battery-technologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/?p=2555","title":{"rendered":"Contracts Awarded for Advanced Battery Technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2557\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2557\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/PlugInVehicle_IdahoLab.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2557\" title=\"PlugInVehicle_IdahoLab\" src=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/PlugInVehicle_IdahoLab.jpg\" alt=\"Plug-in electric vehicle (Idaho National Lab)\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/PlugInVehicle_IdahoLab.jpg 300w, https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/PlugInVehicle_IdahoLab-150x99.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2557\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Idaho National Lab)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Five companies received technology development and assessment contracts today from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uscar.org\/guest\/article_view.php?articles_id=467\">United States Advanced Battery Consortium<\/a> (USABC), a research collaboration of automakers Chrysler Group LLC, Ford Motor Company, and General Motors Company. The awards, totaling $5.43 million, are funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and include a 50 percent cost-share from each of the contracted companies.<\/p>\n<p>USABC awarded the contracts to develop and assess advanced energy storage technologies for hybrid-electric vehicles, a lower-energy energy storage system for power-assist hybrid-electric vehicles, and electric vehicle applications.<\/p>\n<p>One company received an advanced battery development contract:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Envia Systems Inc. of Newark, California was awarded a $3.65 million contract for a three-year project to develop a high-energy cathode material for vehicle applications and pouch cells that exhibit performance metrics that meet or exceed the minimum USABC electric vehicle goals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Four companies received technology assessment contracts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Quallion LLC of Los Angeles, California was awarded a $1.41 million contract for an 18-month technology assessment of its Matrix battery design, a hybridized battery pack using a mixture of high power and high-energy lithium-ion cells, and to demonstrate the performance of the packs against USABC electric vehicle goals.<\/li>\n<li>ActaCell Inc. of Austin, Texas, which was awarded $179,015 for a 16-month technology assessment contract to evaluate the company&#8217;s high-power lithium-ion cells for increased cycle and storage life against USABC power-assist hybrid-electric vehicles goals.<\/li>\n<li>Leyden Energy Inc. of Fremont, California, which was awarded a $117,733 contract for an eight-month technology assessment of its lithium-ion technology for electric vehicle applications in a pouch cell and to evaluate them against USABC electric vehicle battery goals.<\/li>\n<li>K2 Energy Solutions Inc. of Henderson, Nevada, which was awarded a $73,644 contract for a 12-month technology assessment of the company&#8217;s 51 amp-hour (Ah) cells and planned 45 Ah cells configured in &#8220;flat-pack&#8221; modular batteries and large laminated cells in relation to USABC electric vehicle battery targets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five companies received technology development and assessment contracts today from the United States Advanced Battery Consortium (USABC), a research collaboration of automakers Chrysler Group LLC, Ford Motor Company, and General Motors Company. The awards, totaling $5.43 million, are funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and include a 50 percent cost-share from each of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[72,80,53,68,86,105],"class_list":["post-2555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","tag-cleantech","tag-contract","tag-economics","tag-energy","tag-engineering","tag-physical-sciences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2555"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2558,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555\/revisions\/2558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}