The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced $175 million for 68 R&D projects. The projects, selected by DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), include a wide range of clean energy solutions, with this report focussing on electric transportation.

Overall, the selectees span 22 states and include renown universities, national laboratories, and private companies, so ARPA-E. The awarded funding varies but is often in the lower multi-million range for e-mobility advances. The project featured below to seek, for example, to improve fuel cells or batteries and battery charging, vehicles or components thereof, also their manufacture.

OPEN 2021 is ARPA-E’s latest instalment of the OPEN program. The first four iterations — 2009, 2012, 2015, and 2018 — awarded over $600 million in funding to 225 projects working to achieve breakthroughs in commercializing energy solutions.

Since its founding in 2009, ARPA-E claims it has provided $2.93 billion in R&D funding and has attracted more than $7.6 billion in private-sector follow-on funding to commercialize clean energy technologies.

greencarcongress.com, energy.gov, arpa-e.energy.gov (full list of selectees)

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