The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy has awarded a $41,665,245 Cooperative Agreement to the United States Advanced Battery Consortium, LLC (USABC) under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) federal grant program. The purpose of this award is to advance the pre-competitive development of U.S.-based battery technology for automotive applications. USABC will collaborate with battery manufacturers, universities, national laboratories,...
This federal Cooperative Agreement award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), CFDA 81.135, provides $1,631,000.00 to Purdue University to develop an "Integrated Technoeconomic, Lifecycle, and Circularity Analyses Tool for EV Batteries". The award period is from January 1, 2025 to January 9, 2028. The project aims to create an analytical tool to support critical research and development objectives related to the life cycle and circularity of electric vehicle...
The federal Cooperative Agreement award, titled "MONALISA: MECHANISTIC MODELING AND ANALYTICS OF LI-S BATTERIES," was provided by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) federal grant program. The $2,303,395 award, effective October 1, 2024 through September 30, 2025, aims to establish a hierarchical, mechanistic modeling framework for lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries. This involves...
This $2,395,000 Cooperative Agreement was awarded on June 20, 2023 by the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency (CFDA 81.135) to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) to develop fundamentally disruptive electric vehicle (EV) battery technologies. The key objectives are to create cobalt- and nickel-free battery cathodes, fast-charging and all-weather electrolytes, and coal-derived fast-charging and high-capacity anodes in order to enable EVs with...
The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $2,020,000 Cooperative Agreement (CFDA 81.086 - Conservation Research and Development) to the University of California, Berkeley to develop a fundamental mechanistic understanding of lithium-sulfur battery electrochemistry. The project will use both continuum modeling and electronic structure calculations to interpret data and advance the understanding of lithium-sulfur battery technology. As part of the...
The Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA-E) awarded a $1,668,927 cooperative agreement to the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) under the ARPA-E EVS4ALL program. The 3-year project, starting July 27, 2023 and ending January 26, 2026, will evaluate the safety of next-generation energy storage cells. UT Austin, as the prime awardee, will leverage its expertise in materials science, energy systems, and testing to assess the safety performance of these...
This federal Cooperative Agreement award, totaling $1,750,000.00, is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) grant program. The purpose of this award is to advance zero-emission vehicle infrastructure planning and implementation at the state and local level. The National Association of State Energy Officials (NASEO), a non-profit organization, will serve as the prime awardee and...
The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $2,000,000 Cooperative Agreement (CFDA 81.086 - Conservation Research and Development) to the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) on October 1, 2024. The objective of this award is to: Purchase and commission relevant equipment, train individual scientists in their operation, develop methods to characterize lithium at various stages of the lithium loop (from resource to recycling), and develop and...
The University of Michigan has been awarded a $2,680,000 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program under CFDA 81.135. The award is titled "Rapid State of Health Diagnosis by Model-Enabled Pulse Form Sequence" and will run from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2027. The project aims to develop innovative technologies for advanced rechargeable batteries, including rapid state-of-health diagnosis and improved...
The Regents of the University of Colorado (CU) were awarded a Cooperative Agreement from the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E), CFDA 81.135, to develop techniques for autonomous disassembly of electric vehicle lithium-ion batteries (EV-LIB). The $1,800,023.40 award, spanning from Dec 6, 2024 to Dec 5, 2027, will leverage CU's expertise in robotic assembly, symbolic planning, and open-world vision language models to create a system that can identify necessary tasks and execute...