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U.S. Launches $120 Million Battery Research Project
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The U.S. Dept. of Energy has unveiled a new five-year program to push development of cheaper, more powerful batteries for electric vehicles.
The $120 million project, which will be led by the Argonne National Laboratory, involves four other DOE national labs, five universities and four private enterprises. Organizers say the project hopes in five years to develop batteries that are five times as powerful and one-fifth as expensive.
The program aims to integrate battery research nationwide through a new Joint Center for Energy Storage Research at the Argonne lab outside Chicago. The hub will coordinate research elsewhere, including two new R&D centers in Ann Arbor and Holland, Mich.
Business participants include Applied Materials, Clean Energy Trust, Dow Chemical and Johnson Controls.
Labs joining the JCESR project are the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Pacific Northwest National Lab, Sandia National Laboratories and LLAC National Accelerator Lab.
The five university partners are Northwestern, the University of Chicago, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Michigan.
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