This $2,823,199 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) program supports Tyfast Energy Corp's 3-year project to develop "HIGH SYMMETRIC POWER (HYPER) BATTERY" technology for electric vehicles. The project aims to advance high-power lithium-ion battery capabilities, including fast charging, extended cycle life, and improved performance in extreme conditions. This work is intended to accelerate the...
This $4.85 million cooperative agreement from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) program (CFDA #81.135) supports the University of Maryland, College Park in developing fast-charge, high-energy density solid-state batteries through their project entitled "FAST-CHARGE, HIGH-ENERGY-DENSITY, SOLID-STATE BATTERY." The University will deliver this three-year project ending in April 2026 in collaboration with subawardee Ion Storage Systems, Inc.,...
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 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...
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 U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $40,000,000 Cooperative Agreement to Ion Storage Systems, Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business located in Beltsville, Maryland. The award, made on September 13, 2024, supports the company's project to commercialize next-generation solid-state lithium-metal battery technology under CFDA Program 81.135. The project aims to deliver industry-leading battery cell performance and establish a...
South 8 Technologies, Inc. received a $3.15 million cooperative agreement award from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy to support research on liquefied gas electrolytes for next-generation electric vehicle batteries over a three-year period from May 2023 to May 2026. Through this award made under the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy federal grant program (CFDA #81.135), South 8 Technologies will develop electrolyte technologies with the aim of enabling...
The federal Cooperative Agreement award to Hight-Tech, Inc. in the amount of $1,368,459.00 was provided by the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) under CFDA Program 81.135. The project, titled "Rapid Surface Graphitization of Carbon Anode for In Situ Regeneration of Batteries," aims to develop a simple approach to generate a stable solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) amenable to in-situ regeneration of batteries. This will be achieved by...
This $18,796,716 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under the Clean Energy Demonstrations program (CFDA 81.255) aims to demonstrate modular, scalable long-duration energy storage systems composed of repurposed electric vehicle lithium-ion batteries. The project will install a total of 3 MWh of battery energy storage systems (BESS) at educational institutions and community sites in South Carolina and Louisiana to provide EV charging, grid resiliency, and...
The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $5,590,448 Cooperative Agreement to Lyten, Inc., a small business in San Jose, California, under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) federal grant program. The objective of this award is to develop a lithium-sulfur (Li-S) battery cell with advanced sulfur cathodes using 3-dimensional graphene-sulfur composites that can support long-life Li-S batteries for electric vehicles (EVs) and...