Cooperative Agreement 2025899

This $400,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University to develop novel bidirectional high-power DC-DC onboard electric vehicle battery chargers with ultra-high power density and scalability operating over 1 megahertz. The research aims to address key gaps including designing and demonstrating 1.2 kilovolt gallium nitride field-effect transistors for high-frequency power converters operating over 800 volts and 1...

Aeon Sciences, LLC received a $255,642 Small Business Innovation Research Phase I Project Grant from the National Science Foundation to develop an ultra-fast battery charger for electric vehicles. The NSF Division of Industrial Innovation awarded funding under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to support innovation, creativity, and excellence in engineering research. The one-year project period runs from May 1, 2021 to April 30, 2022 and will fund Aeon Sciences' research and development of...

The Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), under its Electric Vehicles for American Low-Carbon Living (EVS4ALL) program (CFDA 81.135), awarded a $2,976,210 Cooperative Agreement to The Ohio State University for the project "Extreme Fast Charging Batteries with Extended Cycle Life for EVs". The 3-year project aims to develop advanced battery technologies to enable electric vehicles with extended driving range and faster charging capabilities. As part...

Mission Power Corp., doing business as Mission Drives, received a $206,500 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science on June 27, 2022 to support development of a planar magnetic solution for vehicle chargers. The project is scheduled to be completed by March 26, 2023. The Office of Science Financial Assistance Program, listed under the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) number 81.049, supports basic research to deliver scientific discoveries and tools...

Solid Power Operating, Inc. was awarded a $5.6 million cooperative agreement from the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) under the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (CFDA #81.135) program to develop high energy, fast charging all-solid-state batteries for electric vehicles. Under this award, Solid Power will partner with the University of Maryland to advance research and development of lithium metal all-solid-state batteries that provide high energy and power density,...

The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $1,874,838 Cooperative Agreement to Aurora Flight Sciences, a Boeing company, to develop an innovative aluminum (Al) air energy storage and power generation (ESPG) system. The goal is to meet ARPA-E's PROPEL 1K program targets for zero-emissions, high energy density, and high efficiency to enable electrification across the aviation, rail, maritime, and trucking industries. The project team, which includes the University of...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $550,000 Project Grant under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program to the University of Texas at Austin for a project titled "Efficiency and Driving Range Improvements of Electric Vehicles through a Novel Battery-Inverter Architecture." The goal of the project is to develop a prototype battery-inverter system for electric vehicles that allows battery cells to operate more independently based on their individual state of health...

Imagen Energy LLC was awarded an $11.7 million cooperative agreement from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) to develop products that will accelerate electric vehicle charging infrastructure deployment. Under the award titled "CHARGED: Commercialization of Highly Accelerated Reliable Grid-Networked Energy Delivery," Imagen Energy will produce solutions to improve space utilization, reduce installation costs, and increase charging efficiency...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $182,265.00 to Lehigh University to investigate a novel high-current conversion technology to support various distributed energy resource (DER) applications. The project aims to develop a modular, multiphase, interleaved high-current conversion system using wide bandgap semiconductor devices. Key technical focuses include high-efficiency resonant circuits, integrated magnetic coupling,...

The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to Tyfast Energy Corp, a minority-owned small disadvantaged business, for the development of a "NOVEL HIGH-PERFORMANCE AND HIGH-ENERGY ANODE FOR FUTURE MOBILITY" under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049). This one-year project, beginning on July 22, 2024, aims to advance battery technologies by designing and demonstrating a high-performance lithium-ion anode material that can...