EnerDel gets $4 million from the Feds for military li-ion battery
Thursday, September 18th, 2008Filed under: Emerging Technologies, EV/Plug-in
Ener1 CEO and Chairman Charles Gassenheimer certainly isn’t afraid to talk up the li-ion battery work that battery subsidiary EnerDel is doing. It looks like the U.S. federal government is also willing to get behind the lithium-ion research going on in Indianapolis. The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded EnerDel a $4 million research and development contract for work that should:
- create lightweight, high-performance battery solutions for real-time tracking of vital military assets in harsh climates, and
- create high-energy batteries to power miniature unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), increasingly critical to battlefield troops.
Just think, your Th!nk could be powered by the same battery that flies around and kills people, although perhaps not - does an EV need a “severe-duty” battery? Probably not. More details after the jump.
[Source: EnerDel]
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