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Panel II: The State of Battery R&D and Manufacturing in the United States
Panel II: The State of Battery R&D and Manufacturing in the United States
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Forcier said was known to be one of the safest chemistries for lithium-ion batteries. The material enabled A123 to increase energy density to produce large batteries, such as those used in transportation and electrical grid storage.
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SOURCE: Jason Forcier, Presentation at July 26-27, 2010 National Academies Symposium on "Building the U.S. Battery Industry for Electric Drive Vehicles: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities."
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SOURCE: Jason Forcier, Presentation at July 26-27, 2010 National Academies Symposium on "Building the U.S. Battery Industry for Electric Drive Vehicles: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities."
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The government announced a goal of having 1 million electric vehicles on the road by 2020, an ambitious target for a nation with around 4 million total vehicles. "German OEMs are working together quite strongly on standardizations around battery cells," he said.
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SOURCE: Jason Forcier, Presentation at July 26-27, 2010 National Academies Symposium on "Building the U.S. Battery Industry for Electric Drive Vehicles: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities." The key to growing battery sales in the United States is to create domestic demand.
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A recent version of the energy bill included a provision for electric cities that would have provided more incentives to buy electric vehicles, he noted. "That is the kind of legislation we need to pass," he said.
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That company "survived completely" on funding from the Small Business Innovation Research program,15 he said. The bulk of Compact Power's initial funds came from the DoE.
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President Barack Obama attended the July 15, 2010, ground-breaking ceremony, and the plant is scheduled to begin manufacturing cells in 2012. Initially, electrodes will come from South Korea and be assembled in Holland.
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We have a lot of sprinters in this country. We need industry leaders in marathon running like the Kenyans, Somalis, and Ethiopians who can run the race to the end." THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVE Nancy Gioia Ford Motor Company All major automakers are "dealing with the same set of issues" when it comes to electrified vehicles, said Ms.
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In 2010, Ford launched the Transit Connect line of fuel-efficient small commercial vehicles, and it will launch Focus Electric in 2011. Affordability is the "Achilles heel" of hybrids, which are the foundation of Ford's electrification program, Ms.
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PHEV Global C-Platform Plug -in Hybrid Electric Vehicles Next Generation HEV Escape HEV Hybrid Electric Vehicles Next Generation HEV Fusion/Milan FIGURE 5 North America -- announced electrification projects. SOURCE: Nancy Gioia, Presentation at July 26-27, 2010 National Academies Symposium on "Building the U.S.
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Gioia said. She noted that the projections she cited are only for major automakers that have announced goals of selling 50,000 or more electric vehicles by 2015.
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Battery Industry for Electric Drive Vehicles: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities." simple start-stop systems, in which a battery starts the engine but does not power the car, that provide 3 percent to 6 percent in fuel savings. Ford also will introduce "mild hybrids" that modestly help drive the car, medium hybrids, and full hybrids, which reduce fuel by 55 percent and have all-electric drives.
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SOURCE: Nancy Gioia, Presentation at July 26-27, 2010 National Academies Symposium on "Building the U.S. Battery Industry for Electric Drive Vehicles: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities." An example of new components is the SmartGuage18 instrument panel on new Fusion hybrids.
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The U.S. Advanced Battery Consortium and the battery industry as a whole generally agree much more must be done before electric vehicles are ready for
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Besides climate change, another driver of electric vehicles is the growing concentration of the world's population into megacities with 10 million inhabitants or more, Dr. Sastry said.
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market for electric cars will be able to reach the 300,000-unit thresh hold needed to push lithium-ion battery costs below $300 per kilowatt, Dr. Sastry said.
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"The adjacent areas are very important in regularizing electric vehicles." The University of Michigan was one of the first to invest in research and education aimed at improving lithium-ion cells and battery packs, she said. Until recently, however, there hadn't been a strong motive for universities and car companies to work together.
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Sastry said. "People who do computational experimental work have to worry a lot about time constants and how long it takes to derive the parameters that tell us how a system is going to behave." Such battery factors as cycle life "can really only be understood if you understand the scale at which things are breaking down or occurring inside the battery cell," she explained.
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