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...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Tyfast Energy Corp a $934,823 Cooperative Agreement under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program to develop a high-performance lithium-ion battery for decarbonizing diesel-powered construction and heavy-duty vehicles. This 2-year project aims to deliver a lithium-ion battery cell with over 3 Ah capacity, 6-minute fast charging, 10,000+ cycle life, and cold temperature operation. The goal is to create a new class of...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $256,000 Project Grant under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to Tyfast Energy Corp. The grant will support the development of ultrafast charge and extended life lithium ion batteries for electric transportation applications. Over the one-year period from March 2022 to February 2023, Tyfast Energy will develop a lithium coin cell battery prototype demonstrating 3-minute ultrafast charging capability and a 20,000-cycle extended...
This $2,120,120 Cooperative Agreement awarded on September 14, 2023 by the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) program (CFDA 81.135) to Ampcera Inc. will support the development of a thermally modulated solid-state battery (TMSSB) to enable the benefits of electric vehicles to be accessed by all Americans. Ampcera, a minority-owned business, will utilize this funding to conduct research, development, and manufacturing activities related to advanced...
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...
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.,...
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 Department of Energy Office of Science awarded Texpower EV Technologies, Inc. a $199,545 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop stabilizing coatings for high-nickel, cobalt-free cathodes employed in electric vehicles. The one-year award period runs from June 28, 2021 to June 27, 2022 and will support research harnessing atomic layer deposition techniques to tame ultrahigh energy cathodes through stabilizing coatings. The Office of...
Zeta Energy Corporation will receive $4.2 million through a Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy to develop enabling technologies for fast charging lithium metal battery architectures and sulfurized carbon cathodes. The three-year award, made under funding opportunity announcement DE-FOA-0002760 for the EVSAALL program, will support Zeta Energy's project to advance rechargeable battery technologies critical for accelerating the...
The University of Houston was awarded a $6.8 million cooperative agreement from the Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA-E) under the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (CFDA 81.135) program. The project aims to develop lithium- and transition metal-free high-energy fast-charging batteries to enhance U.S. energy supply chain security. Specifically, the University proposes a battery that will match lithium-ion batteries in terms of energy and power densities...