Battery500's 1st seedling plans awarded nearly $6 million
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Category: ResearchType: News
Source: PNNL
Date: Wednesday, July 19th, 2017
News Brief
July 19, 2017 
RICHLAND, Wash. - The advanced batteries that will power tomorrow's electric vehicles are closer to being a reality thanks to in excess of $5.7 million in backing awarded to 15 different plans through the D.O.E.'s Battery500 consortium.
The new plans are the 1st to be funded through the consortium, which is led by DOE's Pacific Northwest National Lab and involves multiple partners at universities and other national labs. The new seedling plans were announced July twelve as part of a larger unveiling of a total of $19.4 million in new D.O.E. backing for vehicle technologies research.
The new consortium plans are called seedling plans because they involve new, potentially risky battery technologies that could pay off big and grow into significant energy storage solutions. The most promising of the new plans will be competitively down-selected after 18 months.
Battery500 looks for to develop lithium-metal batteries that have in excess of double the specific energy found in batteries that power today's electric cars. Specific energy measures the amount of energy packed into a battery based on its weight.
Batteries with higher specific energies will allow electric vehicles (EVs) to drive farther on a single charge, as well as weigh and cost less. The consortium aims to build a battery cell with a specific energy of 500 watt-hours per kilogram, compared to the 170-200 watt-hours per kilogram in today's typical EV battery.
For the full list of all 15 new projects, vist DOE's website.
Tags: Energy, EVs, Batteries
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