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ALABC seeks participants for DOE lead carbon stop-start research programme

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The Advanced Lead Acid Battery Consortium (ALABC) is seeking participants for a $300,000 US Department of Energy (DOE) funded lead carbon battery research programme.

The programme, which was unveiled at an ALABC meeting during the 14th European Lead Acid Battery Conference in Edinburgh, will include six lead carbon batteries to be tested in 12V stop-start automotive applications. The DOE is expected to put up $150,000 for the one-year research programme, slated to commence in early 2015, with the six participants stumping up $25,000 match funding apiece.

Encell Technology sells battery management system assets

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Venture capital firm VXG Capital Partners has acquired the battery management system assets of Florida’s Encell Technology.

Atraverda is back with uprated bipolar battery

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Bipolar batteries also use the entire surface area between each cell to transfer current and cause less stress, improving lifetime and performance.

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British bipolar battery maker Atraverda is launching a new 24V lead-acid battery in the second quarter of 2014.

The new battery is an uprated version of its first 24V, 15Ah bipolar battery, hundreds of which have been trialled, mostly for electric wheelchairs and golf carts. Following feedback from its clients wanting a product with higher volumetric energy density, Atraverda is to launch a 24V, 18Ah battery by summer 2014.