Bay Area firms get $19.6 mil for battery research
By Josh Richman
Thursday, August 11th, 2011 at 10:35 am in economy, energy, Environment.
Four Bay Area companies will receive more than $19.6 million in U.S. Energy Department grants over the next few years for research into new batteries to power electric vehicles.
The money is part of $175 million that Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced yesterday will be paid out over the next three to five years to 40 projects in 15 states aimed at accelerating development and deployment of advanced vehicles.
The grants were broken out into eight subject areas, including areas such as lightweight materials, thermoelectric technology, fleet efficiency and so on. However, all four of the Bay Area grants are in the filed of advanced cells and design technology for electric drive batteries:
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August 11th, 2011 at 1:49 pm
These auto batteries are nothing compared to the really big battery that Jerry Brown (Governor Sunbeam) will have to build to store all that solar power he plans to generate.
It gets really dark around here at night!