Advanced Battery Consortium

Efforts to develop commercially viable EV versions of advanced battery systems continue. The ultimate goal is to develop battery technology suitable for practical, consumer-acceptable electric vehicles. The United States Advanced Battery Consortium (USABC) has been formed with the express purpose of accelerating development of practical EV batteries (83). 

The United States Advanced Battery Consortium (USABC) and the European Union are also presently supporting R D projects for EV lithium... 

C under the Dynamic Stress Test for EVs in accordance with the United States Advanced Battery Consortium Procedure 5B. This has a variable discharge profile based on specific power requirements, with a maximum of 150 Wkg when related to a full-sized EV battery. For the experimental cells, the peak power was equivalent to a current density of 16.3mAcm . ... 

US Advanced Battery Consortium Electrochemical Storage System Abuse Test Procedure Manual (SAND99-0497)... 

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USABC Electric Vehicle Battery Test Procedures Manual Revision 2, U.S. Advanced Battery Consortium, DOE/lD-10479, Rev. 2, Jan. 1996. 

In the United States, the most likely near-term market for zinc/bromine batteries is electric-utility applications. Sales of millions of kilowatthours of capacity per year may be possible at an estimated cost of 150/kWh or less. Application of zinc/bromine technology to electric vehicles in the United States is a longer-term market possibility, and the USABC (United States Advanced Battery Consortium) has presently chosen not to fund development of zinc/ bromine technology. In Europe, however, interest in electric-vehicle applications for zinc/ bromine technology is stronger and represents the near-term market. 

The main interest in high temperature batteries such as lithium/iron sulfide, sodium/ sulfur, and sodium/nickel chloride is for electric vehicle applications due to their high specific power and energy possibilities. The replacement of the liquid lithium electrode with a solid LiAl alloy alleviated many of the safety concerns that plagued the other two systems, which are based on a liquid sodium electrode. In 1991, the United States Advanced Battery Consortium (USABC) selected the bipolar molten-salt LiAl/FeS2 battery to be developed as... 

TABLE 41.4 U.S. Advanced Battery Consortium Primary Criteria for Mid-Term and Long-Term Advanced Battery Technologies... 

DOE) [16]. In addition, the US Advanced Battery Consortium (USABC) has also proposed that a battery for electric vehicles should be able to store at least 150Wh/kg to assure the vehicle of an accepfable driving range (Table 13.2) [17]. 

In 1991, the U.S. government entered into a partnership with the United States Advanced Battery Consortium (USABC) in a research and development effort to device new automobile battery systems and thereby accelerate the development and production of EVs for the mass market. The USABC was formed as a result of conclusions arrived at by the automobile manufacturers when confronted with the requirement to provide zero emission vehicles (ZEVs)... 

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