Johnson Controls-Saft Awarded US$500K State Grant for Li-Ion Hybrid Battery Work
20 September 2008
Johnson Controls-Saft (JCS) received a US$500,000 Bio Energy Grant from Wisconsin’s Clean Energy Wisconsin Plan. The company was chosen for this grant for its work in developing innovative, clean energy projects, specifically for the advanced technology R&D and commercialization efforts for lithium-ion hybrid vehicle batteries.
The company’s Battery Technology Center is located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
The grant is part of a cost-share program in which Johnson Controls-Saft will invest $500,000 and in turn receive $500,000 from the State of Wisconsin as an incentive for further innovation and advancement of the state’s clean energy agenda.
Recently, Johnson Controls-Saft was awarded a grant from The United States Advanced Battery Consortium (USABC), with funding from the US Department of Energy for a development contract worth $8.2 million over the next two years. The development efforts will focus on the development of lithium-ion battery systems for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and over the course of two years will seek to validate the commercial feasibility of lithium-ion technology for mass market PHEVs. (Earlier post.)
The high, efficiency and energy, ZEBRA battery was invented 20 years ago; now is the time to put money into producing them at their proposed low costs. ..HG..
Posted by: Henry Gibson | 20 September 2008 at 09:31 PM
This is nice, but $1 million will not go all that far. $8 million goes farther, but may not make major break through technology in a short time. It is better than nothing, but not even close to what we need to get to where we want to go within the time that we need to get there.
Posted by: sjc | 21 September 2008 at 11:15 AM