Tag: battery technology

WCTA Gold Member and battery technology company UniEnergy Technologies (UET) was profiled in Seattle Business in the October 2012 issue.  The company is developing a vanadium redox flow battery system and hopes to have working models by the end of the year.  UET has leased 27,000 sqf in Mukilteo and is hiring. Source: Seattle Business […]

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Energy Newsdata followed up on our panel on energy storage with a thoughtful piece that you can find here.

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WCTA Breakfast: Storing Energy–Launch Pad for a Next Innovation Wave | August 2 | 730-900 am | Fourth & Madison Building, 925 Fourth Ave, 18th Floor Conference Room, Seattle.  An extraordinarily important part of the energy problem is our ability to store it.  Why are petroleum, coal, and natural gas so important? What is one […]

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Source: Duncan Graham-Rowe, January 6, 2012 IBM professes a technology that sates the anxiety caused by an EV’s low range capability.  A newer type of battery, known as a lithium-air cell, is 1000x denser in energy than the Li-ion, leading to a 500-mile range potential. The drawback is the chemical instability during recharge that limits […]

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The Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory was awarded two spots on R&D Magazine’s past year’s 100 most significant scientific and technological products or advances.  Since its birth in 1963, PNNL has achieved 89 R&D 100 awards to date. The two winning innovations were for: Fast-charging batteries for vehicles, electronics Improving air quality in […]

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Battelle / Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has announced publication of a study in the Journal of Power Sources demonstrating significantly higher efficiency in a new small-scale oxide fuel cell system.  The PNNL-developed system is up to 57% efficient as compared to 30-50% efficiencies of similar cells.  The system uses methane, the primary component of natural […]

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Microsoft founder Bill Gates is an investor in Liquid Metal Battery.  The firm said it had raised $15 million in a Series B round.  The round was led by Khosla Ventures.  Gates participated and had invested in the Series A round. The company is based on MIT technology. Source: Northwest Innovation, May 24, 2012.

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Washington State University engineering professor Grant Norton is developing technology that may allow more use of tin in lithim ion batteries.  Tin would replace carbon and might extend the life of lithium batteries by a factor of three.  Lithium ion batteries are commonly used laptops, cell phones, and electric cars.  According to Dr. Norton, “If […]

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Robert Lutz , an automotive veteran that has worked in the industry for five decades including senior leadership positions at GM, Ford, Chrysler, and BMW has joined the Board of Directors of EnerG2. EnerG2’s mission is to produce engineered carbons for energy storage at prices and performance levels that enable entirely new storage applications. Source:  […]

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That was the topic among regional transportation experts in a recent WCTA meeting facilitated by Byron McCann.  We do have a surprising number of strengths–and weaknesses–in the area.  Of course, there are a number of opportunities and threats, too.  So, to make some sense of some of the discussion, I have endeavored to summarize many […]

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