Researchers have until February 3 to apply for a slice of the latest SEK50 million (€4.97 million) tranche of battery innovation funding offered by the Swedish energy authority.
The latest round of the Batterifondsprogrammet, or Battery Fund, will give particular emphasis to projects examining the production, use, reuse, collection and recycling of batteries; resource efficiency, including eco-design and circular manufacturing; safety through all aspects of the battery supply chain and product life cycle; global battery use; improving the competitiveness of the Swedish battery industry; modelling cell and battery pack use; raising the number of battery-related PhD studies; labeling; stationary storage; supercapacitors; battery diagnostics; logistics; and security.
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Projects studying the deployment of already commercially-available technology will not be eligible for funding, the energy authority stressed, in an announcement on its website in December.
Successful applicants will receive funding from the proceeds of a charge applied to battery sales before 2009, levied to finance battery collection and reuse. Since 2009, battery manufacturers have been responsible for such operations.
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The current, ten-year, second phase of the Battery Fund is set to disburse around SEK280 million via annual calls until 2028.
Funding decisions have been promised by May and eligible research projects must not begin before that point.
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Some batteries they might check out are the CATL and Nissan Leaf NMC532 million mile batteries. My wife’s 3yo Nissan Leaf still easily does 115% of the EPA range after 32,000 miles. Taxi drivers with over 100k miles have noticed no decline in range either. For my Wife’s car thats after several hundred full charges to 100% that would kill some EV batteries. If it last 20 years charging to 100% and a up 0% DOD imagine how well it will do with a 60 or 70 DOD.