This federal Project Grant award for $7,823,617.00, made by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability under the Electricity Research, Development and Analysis (CFDA 81.122) program, will establish a precompetitive research program between the U.S. lead battery industry and several DOE national labs. The primary objectives are to develop a partnership to share performance data on lead battery products in long-duration energy storage (LDES) applications,...
This Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) Federal Grant Program, will advance the pre-competitive development of U.S.-based battery technology for automotive applications. The United States Advanced Battery Consortium, LLC (USABC) will collaborate with battery manufacturers, universities, national labs, and raw materials developers and...
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 U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $7,222,072 Project Grant on October 1, 2024 under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) program. The grant was awarded to Reaction Engineering International, a for-profit R&D consulting firm based in Midvale, Utah, to develop a clean and affordable low-temperature thermal method to preprocess end-of-life lithium-ion batteries from consumer devices. The project aims to...
The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy has awarded a $5,000,000 Project Grant under the Conservation Research and Development program (CFDA 81.086) to UHV Technologies Inc. to improve the battery recycling economy. The objective of the project is to: 1) Increase battery recovery rates by collecting batteries from various waste streams like municipal solid waste, automotive scrap, and e-waste; and 2) Sort the collected batteries using high-throughput...
The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $9,200,000 Project Grant under the Conservation Research and Development program (CFDA 81.086) to Expost Technology, Inc., located in San Diego, California. The objective of this grant is to develop an advanced machinery system for pre-processing consumer electronics and batteries to improve the economics of recycling consumer electronics batteries and generate greater market demand for recycling...
The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $6,250,214 Cooperative Agreement to Ricardo LLC on August 15, 2024 under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) federal grant program. The funding supports the development of an innovative 3-in-1 inverter/on-board charger/auxiliary DC converter for electrified vehicle applications. The goal is to advance energy efficiency and decarbonization technologies in the transportation sector,...
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 Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $1,978,481 Cooperative Agreement under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) federal grant program to the University of South Carolina. The objective of this 1-year project is to develop mechanistic models of lithium-sulfur (Li-S) battery cathode processes that are experimentally validated and can be used for virtual prototyping of Li-S cells. Key activities include collecting baseline Li-S...
The U.S. Department of Energy, through its Conservation Research and Development program (CFDA 81.086), awarded a $5,424,948 Cooperative Agreement to Ascend Elements, Inc. on October 1, 2023. The funding supports the development of low-cost cathode active materials (CAM) produced from purified and refined mixed hydroxide precipitate. This effort aims to strengthen domestic manufacturing and energy supply chains needed to modernize the nation's energy infrastructure, support the transition to a...