Cooperative Agreement DEEE0010598

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...

This $5,994,441 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) program will fund UL LLC to design and build a 500 kW DC fast charger test laboratory. The objective is to expand UL's North America Advanced Electric Vehicle Charging Laboratory to include additional testing capabilities for DC fast chargers in alignment with UL2202 and UL9741 safety standards, as well...

The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $3,274,432 Cooperative Agreement under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) program to Western Michigan University. The objective of this 26-month project is to develop a 150 kilowatt traction power charger-inverter system with galvanic isolation capability. The university will conduct research and development to advance this multi-input integrated smart charger-inverter system, which can...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) program provides $6,046,425 to deploy an Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Interoperability Test Bed. The project aims to increase industrial capacity, competition, redundancy, and broad access to validation testing and certification of Direct Current (DC) fast chargers with power ratings between 150 kilowatts...

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...

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...

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy has awarded a $4,697,530 Cooperative Agreement to Quanta Technology, LLC under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) program. The funding will upgrade Quanta's Advanced Testing and Training Center in La Grange, TX to create a state-of-the-art electric vehicle (EV) charger testing facility capable of full-power testing at the megawatt scale. This project, running from July 2024 to June 2025,...

The U.S. Department of Energy awarded a $21,839,531 Project Grant under the Grid Infrastructure Deployment and Resilience (CFDA 81.254) program to Highland Electric Fleets Inc. in Beverly, MA. The purpose of this 5-year project is to deploy 44 vehicle-to-grid (V2G) chargers, 500 kWh of stationary storage, 800 kW of solar, and associated infrastructure across 14 sites. The project will also establish three solar plus storage supported systems and one storage-only supported system. The project...

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...