Cooperative Agreement DEEE0011173

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 $450,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to research and develop a novel high-order nonlinear resonance wireless power transfer (WPT) approach. The goal is to enable position-agile WPT applications ranging from dynamic electric vehicle charging to powering biomedical devices. The project will explore fundamental nonlinear circuit analysis, mathematics, power electronics, and RF engineering principles to address the...

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...

The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $199,967 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to Resonant Link Inc., a for-profit small business based in South Burlington, Vermont. The grant, titled "Electric Transit Optimization through High-Power Wireless Charging," supports the development of innovative wireless power transfer technologies to optimize electric transit solutions. The project aims to leverage Resonant Link's...

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,...

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 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...

The Department of Energy awarded a $21,839,531 Project Grant through the Grid Infrastructure Deployment and Resilience program (CFDA 81.254) to Highland Electric Fleets Inc. in Beverly, MA. The purpose of this project is to successfully 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 and one storage-only supported systems. Additionally, the...

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 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...