Funding Notice: $43 Million Available for EV Battery Research & Development

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The U.S. Division of Vitality (DOE) has introduced $43 million in funding for initiatives that can advance analysis, improvement, demonstration, and deployment (RDD&D) in a number of areas vital to the way forward for superior batteries. The funding will drive improvements in low-cost electrical car (EV) battery electrode, cell, or pack manufacturing; enhance battery security and cut back cascading failures; and strengthen the home provide chain of cheap and ample battery supplies.

This funding is aligned with methods detailed within the U.S. Nationwide Blueprint for Transportation Decarbonization, which is a landmark interagency framework of methods and actions to take away all emissions from the transportation sector by 2050, by advancing battery applied sciences that may energy protected and environment friendly zero-emission EVs.

DOE’s Car Applied sciences Workplace (VTO) will provide the funding and construct on the Workplace of Vitality Effectivity and Renewable Vitality’s management in RDD&D of recent applied sciences resulting in environment friendly, clear, and inexpensive mobility choices. Matter areas in VTO’s Fiscal 12 months 2024 Batteries funding alternative embody:

Enhancing 12V lead-acid battery service life and efficiency necessities to satisfy vital security options whereas lowering price.
Creating cell, module, pack, car, or structural methods that cut back cascading results of thermal points that might result in EV fires.
Conducting analysis and improvement that would scale back the manufacturing price on the electrode, cell, or pack stage by at the very least 30% in comparison with the state-of-the-art, and growing throughput by at the very least 50% in comparison with the state-of-the-art.
Researching, fabricating, and testing silicon-based lithium battery cells that meet EV battery efficiency necessities.
Creating excessive power density cathodes containing metallic chalcogenide, oxide, or halide supplies that surpass the power density of state-of-the artwork nickel cathodes.

As a part of this strategy, VTO encourages the participation of underserved communities and underrepresented teams. Candidates are extremely inspired to incorporate people from teams traditionally underrepresented in STEM on their undertaking groups.

Be taught extra about this funding alternative and different funding alternatives inside DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.

Workplace: Vehicle Technologies Office
FOA quantity: DE-FOA-0003383
Hyperlink to use: Apply on EERE Exchange
FOA Quantity: $42,950,000

Matter Areas

This FOA has 5 subject areas:

Matter 1: Improved 12 Volt Lead Acid Batteries for Security-Crucial Electrical Car Functions, targeted on enhancing the service life and efficiency necessities to satisfy vital security options whereas lowering price ($10 million).

Matter 2: Develop Car or Structural Degree Methods to Scale back the Probability of the Cascading Results of Electrical Car Fires, targeted on university-led groups conducting analysis on the cell, pack, and car stage ($3.9 million).

Matter 3: Battery Electrode, Cell, and Pack Manufacturing Price Discount, targeted on growing improved manufacturing applied sciences for EV battery electrodes, cells, and packs ($12.5 million).

Matter 4: Silicon-Primarily based Anodes for Lithium-Ion Batteries, targeted on researching, fabricating, and testing lithium battery cells implementing silicon electrodes with a commercially accessible cathode expertise to attain cell and value efficiency targets (greater than 350 Wh/kg of usable power with a cell price goal of lower than $70/kWh) ($12.5 million).

Matter 5: Excessive Vitality Density Conversion Cathodes, targeted on growing excessive power density battery cells containing metallic chalcogenide, oxide, or halide cathodes by fixing key challenges for the cathode, electrolyte, electrode integrity, or security ($4.05 million).