The US Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) has announced that a project at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is among 22 that will get funding to develop transformational electric vehicle (EV) energy storage systems using innovative chemistries, architectures and designs.
ARPA-E’s new programme, Robust Affordable Next Generation Energy Storage Systems (RANGE), aims to accelerate widespread EV adoption by dramatically improving driving range and reliability, and by providing low-cost carbon alternatives to today’s vehicles.
NREL will use organic energy storage materials to develop a new low-cost battery that operates like a flow cell, where chemical energy is stored in liquid anolytes and catholytes.
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