Cooperative Agreement DEEE0010599

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 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...

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...

This federal Project Grant award of $182,265 from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports the development of a novel high-current conversion technology for distributed energy resources (DERs). The project, led by Lehigh University, aims to leverage wide bandgap semiconductor devices to create a modular, multiphase, interleaved high-current conversion system. This technology is expected to enable high-power demand response and support applications such as...

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 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...

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...

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 U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $500,000 Project Grant under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087) to the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) to design a scalable charging system that allows for the charging of one or more vessels at the Port of Los Angeles. The project aims to develop a charging infrastructure with options to include additional charging ports, shoreside battery storage, and...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $2,296,542 Cooperative Agreement to Evgo Services LLC to develop low-cost tools for enabling third-party interoperability testing for electric vehicles (EVs) and electric vehicle service equipment (EVSE) with the ISO-15118 plug and charge standard. The project also aims to develop conformance testing to define current and future iterations of the standard to promote widespread interoperability and...