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Answering questions in PEC’s booth at The Battery Show is Peter Ulrix, VP of sales and marketing. See page 6 for show photos.

AROUND THE INDUSTRY

Blue Earth to Purchase Equity in PowerGenix Blue Earth Inc., a Henderson, Nevada-based renewable energy and energy efficiency services company, has entered into a binding letter of agreement to acquire an equity stake in PowerGenix of La Jolla, California, for $10 million payable through a combination of cash and Blue Earth common shares. Blue Earth has been granted exclusive marketing rights to use PowerGenix’s NiZn batteries to produce intelligent digital NiZn batteries using Blue Earth’s intellectual property for a number of multi-billion dollar market verticals including stationary UPS systems in the data center, military, telecom, utility, renewable energy, motor start-up, frequency regulation, peak shaving/shifting and demand shifting market segments. The marketing rights are global for most market verticals. “We are excited about the new strategic partnership between PowerGenix and Blue Earth, which will expand the deployment of PowerGenix’s unique NiZn technologies from the automotive micro-hybrid and mild-hybrid markets into multiple additional verticals in stationary storage,” says Nancy Pfund, a PowerGenix board member and DBL Investors founder and managing director.

Arotech Wins Order for Missile Defense Program Providence, Rhode Island-based Arotech Corp.’s Battery and Power Systems Division recently received a production contract for an OEM in the defense sector. The current authorized contract value is $2.5 million while the total value of the contract exceeds $5 million. The work is in support of an advanced missile defense program. “Missile defense is becoming an increasingly important military focus as military technology improves and the interception and destruction of very high-speed destructive missiles becomes increasingly possible,” comments Arotech’s chairman and CEO, Robert S. Ehrlich. “As the missile defense concept continues to prove itself in active service, protecting both civilians as well as military infrastructure, we see long-term growth for components which underlie missile defense technology. The fact that our Battery and Power Systems Division’ products are a critical component of these highly advanced and complex systems, it demonstrates the strong capabilities of the research and development that we do throughout Arotech.”

International Battery Seminar Joins CHI The International Battery Seminar and Exhibition which will be held March 9-12, 2015, at the Broward County Convention Center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, has been acquired by Cambridge Healthtech Institute (CHI) and the Knowledge Foundation of Needham, Massachusetts. For the past 31 years, the International Battery Seminar and Exhibition has been the leader in providing key industry presenters to discuss worldwide energy storage technology developments for consumer, automotive, military and stationary battery applications. “I’m excited about the opportunity to expand this meeting’s presence to a broader market,” says Dr. Shep Wolsky, founder of the International Battery Seminar. “We believe we have found an ideal partner with CHI and the Knowledge Foundation and we are looking forward to working together to significantly grow this conference.” “For more than 20 years, the conferences organized by CHI were focused on life sciences, but recently we decided it would be important to diversify our topic coverage. The

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Saft Receives Aircraft Battery Supply Order Saft has received orders for the continuing supply of aircraft batteries from Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. (KAI). Under the terms of the orders, Saft will provide maintenance-free nickel-based batteries for military aircraft applications on the KAI T-50/A-50 series aircraft.

Saft is a leading provider of nickel-based batteries for defense aircraft with superior power and energy. The nickel-based batteries for aviation perform exceptionally well in all conditions and provide electrical reliability in extreme temperatures. They are renowned for their safety throughout their extended service life. Saft will supply Aviation Maintenance-Free Batteries (AMFB®) to support advanced fixed-wing jet aircrafts. The nickel-based batteries provide a nominal voltage of 24V. The batteries are comprised of leak-proof thermo-welded cells, seam-welded plate tabs and copper cell links and terminals. They are also constructed using superior separator material and a semi-flooded membrane design. The orders were received in the fourth quarter of 2013, with deliveries scheduled throughout 2014.

Germany Unveils Europe’s Biggest Battery Plant Germany recently switched on Europe’s largest commercial battery plant, an installation powered by 25,600 Li-ion batteries that will help stabilize the region’s growing supply of renewable energy. The 6-million-euro plant, the size of a school gymnasium, is designed to help even out short-term fluctuations that sometimes accompany power from renewable sources as Germany continues to raise its share of renewable energy from 25% to 40-45% by 2025 and 55-60% by 2035.

“This is an interesting alternative to conventional power plants and the regional utilities have come up with an interesting project here,” German Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel told German TV at the plant’s opening in Schwerin. So far the lack of extensive storage capacity has been one of the biggest hurdles to Germany’s expansion into renewable energy as power produced by wind and photovoltaic can generally not be easily stored in any

Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel (left) with German Chancellor Angela Merkel (middle) at the start of a meeting on energy reforms.

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sizable quantities. With a storage capacity of 5MWh, Schwerin’s battery fills that gap. The plant, next to a power substation operated by local utility, Wemag AG, will address short-term fluctuations that can cause damage and lead to power outages. The utilities’ grid covers an area of 8,600 sq km in northeastern Germany, which received 80% of its energy from wind power in 2013. That figure is expected to rise to 100% in 2014.

Formula E Makes Racing History in Beijing On September 13, the world’s first ever fully-electric single-seater race took place in Beijing, marking the season opener of the new FIA Formula E Championship. The Beijing ePrix was held on a temporary race track built around Beijing’s Olympic Bird’s Nest Stadium. Audi Sport ABT’s Lucas di Grassi secured the win in a dramatic season opener. The Brazilian was joined on the podium by Andretti’s Franck Montagny and Virgin’s Sam Bird. FIA’s Formula E uses cars capable of speeds in excess of 150mph (225kph) and will compete on city-center circuits all over the world. Organizers hope the new series will increase interest in electric vehicles and accelerate technology which will filter into the on-road EV market. For all races during the inaugural season, BMW is providing two of its new hybrid i8 sportscars to be used as the Qualcomm Safety Car, together with two fully-electric i3 models as medical and driver extraction cars. All four cars, modified to meet FIA safety and technical requirements, feature an inductive charging system from Qualcomm Inc. which allow the car’s battery to be charged without the use of cables. Drayson Technologies supplied and integrated the wireless charging system onto the cars. The next Formula E race will be held on November 11 in Putrajaya, Malaysia, with live television coverage. Multi-year deals have been signed with FOX Sports, ITV, China’s CCTV-5, France’s Canal+ and Japan’s TV Asahi.

Grafoid Buys Braille Battery Inc. Grafoid Inc., a complete solutions graphene company based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, has acquired Braille Battery Inc. of Sarasota, Florida. Under the agreement, Grafoid acquires a 75% ownership interest in Braille while Braille’s founder, Blake Fuller, will continue to lead the company as president and chief operating officer. Fuller is a championship race car driver, engineer and developer of the first lithium starting battery and GO PUCK, a pocket sized mobile power supply. He founded Braille Battery in 2002 and continues to develop lightweight power solutions across all sectors. Braille Battery is a global leader in the development, production and sales of ultra lightweight Li-ion high performance batteries and seller of the world’s first environmentally sustainable AGM carbon fiber batteries for IndyCar, NASCAR, Formula 1 racing cars, motorcycles and batteries for the marine industry. Gary Economo, Grafoid’s chief executive officer says the purchase of Braille Battery paves the way for Grafoid’s commercialization of high performance, next generation MesoGraf™ lithium batteries. Economo says Grafoid intends to further expand its reach into the global battery industry by developing advanced battery applications and products for the medical, military and marine sectors.

Toshiba Fast-Charging Batteries For Proterra Toshiba’s Rapid Recharge SCiB battery has been selected by Proterra to power their next generation of fully electric buses. Using a lithium-titanate chemistry, the SCiB batteries are resistant to thermal-runaway and yet can be

rapidly recharged and discharged with minimal capacity loss over 10,000 cycles. “Because safety and performance are paramount to Proterra, we are very deliberate in each part we select for our buses, putting vendors through a rigorous qualification process,” says Proterra Inc. CEO, Ryan Popple. “Battery

quality is critical to the performance of electric vehicles; partnering with a world-class team like Toshiba and utilizing SCiB technology will enable Proterra to offer its customers the highest-performance, safest, and most reliable urban transit vehicles.”

High-Tech Battery Maker Considers Move to Ohio Westminster, Colorado-based Xerion Advanced Battery Corp. is evaluating sites in Ohio to relocate its operations, reports the Dayton Business Journal. The move would prepare the company to accelerate its manufacturing business to commercialize a new Li-ion battery technology. Xerion expects a move to Ohio to cost $1.1 million. The Ohio Development Services Agency recently approved approximately $500,000 in Ohio Third Frontier funds to support the move. Xerion’s 14 employees – spread between the company’s laboratory and operations in Champaign, Illinois, and the Westminster headquarters – will consolidate to a new site and begin manufacturing within the next few years and plans to expand to over 50 employees within three years. This early-stage technology group develops advanced Li-ion batteries based on technology developed and licensed by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researchers.

Energous to Collaborate With Highpower Energous Corp., the Pleasanton, California-based developer of WattUp™, a disruptive wire-free charging technology for electronic devices that provides power at a distance with complete mobility under full software control, has a joint development agreement (JDA) with Highpower International Inc., a Chinese developer, manufacturer and marketer of Ni-MH, lithium rechargeable batteries and battery management solutions. Energous and Highpower will jointly develop reference designs for WattUp-enabled Highpower batteries and various other fully integrated solutions for consumers. End users would ultimately be able to make any device wire-free chargeable with WattUp-enabled batteries. “Right now, battery charging method is one of the limiting factor in the use of smartphones, wearables and IoT devices,” says Stephen R. Rizzone, CEO of Energous Corp. “WattUp-enabled Highpower batteries will deliver the freedom to charge without wires and will therefore make an impact to the whole battery industry.” WattUp is a revolutionary, patent-pending solution that delivers intelligent, scalable power via the same radio bands as a Wi-Fi router. The system provides useable power at a distance, allowing the user to roam while charging.

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U.S. BATTERY ANDFUEL CELL PATENTS

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U.S. 8,795,544 (20140805), Power storage device, lithium-ion secondary battery, electric double layer capacitor and lithium-ion capacitor, Kyosuke Ito and Toru Itakura, Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,795,550 (20140805), Method for preparing cathode active material, Ya-Dong Li, Qing Peng, and Zhong-Bin Zhuang, Tsinghua University (CN) and Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. (TW). U.S. 8,795,826 (20140805), Microporous polyolefin composite film with a thermally stable porous layer at high temperature, Jean Lee, Jongmoon Sung, Cholho Lee, Yongkyoung Kim, and Youngkeun Lee, SK Innovation Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,795,846 (20140805), Ni-plated steel sheet for battery can having excellent press formability, Hideyuki Minagi and Eiji Okamatsu, Toyo Kohan Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,795,860 (20140805), Secondary battery pack of novel structure, Juhwan Baek, Sangkwon Nam, Tae-Wook Kim, and Jinhyun Ryu, LG Chem, Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,795,861 (20140805), Fuel cell system and vehicle equipped with the same, Shuichi Kazuno, Hibiki Saeki, and Kazunori Watanabe, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,795,862 (20140805), Battery pack, Shuhei Marukawa, Panasonic EV Energy Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,795,863 (20140805), Abnormality detector and detection method, and facility for producing battery, Yoichi Naruse and Hiroyasu Kado, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP). U.S. 8,795,864 (20140805), Lithium polymer battery, Chang-Bum Ahn, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,795,865 (20140805), Battery pack, Junyoung Park, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,795,867 (20140805), Wire mounted battery module on vertical support frame, Tae-Yong Kim, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR) and Robert Bosch GmbH (DE). U.S. 8,795,868 (20140805), Rechargeable lithium-air and other lithium-based batteries using molten nitrates, Melvin H. Miles. U.S. 8,795,869 (20140805), Module for an electric energy storage assembly, Olivier Caumont, Anne-Claire Juventin-Mathes, Karine Le Bras, and Jean-Michel Depond, batScap (FR). U.S. 8,795,870 (20140805), Lithium ion secondary battery, electronic device, electric power tool, electrical vehicle, and electric power storage system, Ichiro Yamada and Tadahiko Kubota, Sony Corp. (JP). U.S. 8,795,871 (20140805), Electrode assembly and secondary battery having the same, Wan-Mook Lim, Kyu-Nam Han, and Myung-Ro Lee, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,795,872 (20140805), Battery cell system with interconnected frames, Tom Tople, Ed Cates, Len Wolf, and Bruce Silk, EnerDel, Inc. U.S. 8,795,873 (20140805), Case for battery pack and battery pack having the same, Byungkook Ahn, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,795,874 (20140805), Battery pack, Kwangsoo Bae, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,795,875 (20140805), Battery pack of novel structure, Jong Woo Lee, Woo Yeol Kim, Il Hoon Choi, and Ye Ran Kang, LG

Chem, Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,795,876 (20140805), Device for making rapid connections and disconnections between high voltage battery modules and other motor vehicle systems, John D. Thomas, Nam-Huan Thai-Tang, and Albert W. Harrison, ALTe Powertrain Technologies, Inc. U.S. 8,795,877 (20140805), Electrical connecting member of assembling type and secondary battery pack containing the same, Gi-Hwan Kwon, Sain Park, and Yongho Cho, LG Chem, Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,795,878 (20140805), Secondary battery, Jounghwan Park, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,795,879 (20140805), Electronic component and method of manufacturing the same, Tadashi Iwamoto, Tomoyuki Tashiro, Kazumitsu Honda, Toshiaki Shimizu, Tadashi Yamane, and Makoto Chijimatsu, Panasonic Corp. (JP). U.S. 8,795,880 (20140805), Battery having an electrode terminal fixed to a battery case, Masanori Matsubara, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP). U.S. 8,795,881 (20140805), Terminal of rechargeable battery, method of assembling the terminal of rechargeable battery, rechargeable battery module and method of assembling the rechargeable battery module, Dukjung Kim, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR) and Robert Bosch GmbH (DE). U.S. 8,795,882 (20140805), Battery, Hirokazu Kambayashi and Yu Shiraishi, GS Yuasa International Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,795,883 (20140805), Secondary battery with advanced safety, Youngjoon Shin, Min Su Kim, Junill Yoon, Ji Heon Ryu, Jeong Hee Choi, and Seung-Jin Yang, LG Chem, Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,795,884 (20140805), Nonaqueous secondary battery and electronic device, Hideo Sakata, Fusaji Kita, Kumiko Ishizuka, Akiko Kuwabara, and Yuan Gao, Hitachi Maxell, Ltd. (JP) and Kanto Denka Kogyo Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,795,885 (20140805), Lithium-ion battery, Amy L. Prieto, James M. Mosby, and Timothy S. Arthur, Colorado State University Research Foundation. U.S. 8,795,886 (20140805), Anode and secondary battery, Momoe Adachi, Shunsuke Kurasawa, Isamu Konishiike, and Kenichi Kawase, Sony Corp. (JP). U.S. 8,795,887 (20140805), Materials prepared by metal extraction, Marissa Caldwell, Steven Kaye, Wei Tong, David Keogh, and Chen Zheng, Wildcat Discovery Technologies, Inc. U.S. 8,795,888 (20140805), Aqueous co-polymer binder for Li-ion battery, Milburn Ebenezer Jacob Muthu and Jacob Benjamin Behler, Bren-Tronics Batteries International, LLC. U.S. 8,795,889 (20140805), Transition metal phosphate, production process thereof, positive electrode, and sodium secondary battery, Maiko Saka, Yuichiro Imanari, and Taketsugu Yamamoto, Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,795,890 (20140805), Negative active material containing silicon particles for a lithium secondary battery and a method for preparing the same, Sung-Man Lee, Heon Young Lee, and Moon Ki Hong, LG Chem, Ltd. (KR) and Kangwon National University Industry Cooperation Foundation (KR). U.S. 8,795,891 (20140805), Positive electrode active material for lithium secondary battery, method of preparing the same, positive electrode for lithium secondary battery including the same, and lithium secondary battery including the positive electrode, Seung-Beob Yi, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,795,892 (20140805), Cathode composite material and lithium ion battery using the same, Ya-Dong Li, Jun Lu, Wei-Yang Wang, Ding-Sheng Wang, and Qing Peng, Tsinghua University (CN) and Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. (TW). U.S. 8,795,893 (20140805), Nonaqueous secondary battery electrode, nonaqueous secondary battery including the same, and assembled battery, Nobuhiro Ogihara, Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Chuo Kenkyusho (JP). U.S. 8,795,894 (20140805), Positive electrode active material, sodium secondary battery, and production method of olivine-type

September 16-18, 2014 The Battery Show Novi, Michigan With a program designed to examine the key business and technical issues impacting the industry, The Battery Show and Electric & Hybrid Vehicle Technology Conferences provided three parallel tracks, offering commercial, regulatory, safety, technological, materials, R&D and market perspectives, resulting in a 30% increase in conference attendees. About 420 of the 591 conference delegates attended the opening morning keynote session. Speakers from Sakti 3, the University of Michigan, GM, JCESR, ARPA-E and Argonne National Lab were among a panel of technical experts at the R&D track which had standing room only. This year’s automotive OEM attendance increased from 5% to 13% and included Nissan, BMW, Tesla, Hyundai, Daimler, Volkswagen, Porsche, GM, Chrysler, Ford, PSA Peugeot Citroen, Raymond Corp., and John Deere. In 2015, The Battery Show will be held on September 15-17 in Novi, Michgan.

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Announcing the Distinguished Faculty for the 32nd International Battery Seminar & Exhibit

K.M. Abraham, Northeastern UniversityKev Adjemian, Idaho National LaboratoryJ. Norm Allen, Potomac Energy FundBrian Barnett, TIAX, LLCRalph Brodd, Broddarp of NevadaKumar Bugga, NASA Jet Propulsion LaboratoryAndrew Burke, University of California-DavisRichard Chamberlain, Boston PowerYi Cui, Stanford UniversityJeff Dahn, Dahlhousie UniversityBridget Deveney, SaftKevin Eberman, 3MMichael Fetcenko, BASF Battery Materials - OvonicDave Freeman, Texas InstrumentsLinda Gaines, Argonne National LaboratoryDave Heacock, Texas InstrumentsDavid Howell, U.S. Department of EnergyJohn Hurley, A123 Systems, LLC

James Kaschmitter, Polystor Energy CorporationGeorge Kerchner, Portable Rechargeable Battery AssociationFranz Kruger, Roland Berger Strategy ConsultantsArumugam Manthiram, University of Texas at AustinHenry Mao, BAK Battery Co.Ted Miller, Ford Motor CompanySurya Moganty, NOHMS Technologies, Inc.Brian Morin, Dreamweaver InternationalYoshio Nishi, Stanford UniversityMotoaki Nishijima, Sharp CorporationOdysseas Paschos, BMWPrabhakar Patil, Chem Power, Inc.Sebastien Patoux, CEA-LitenChristophe Pillot, Avicenne EnergyRob Privette, XG SciencesBob Richard, LabelMaster (formerly U.S. DOT)YB Roh, EIG

Ken Rudisuela, IOXUSAnn Marie Sastry, Sakti3Xi Shan, BYDKamal Shah, Intel CorporationHang Shi, Tianjin Lishen Battery, Ltd.Steve Sloop, On-To TechnologyHe Wei, EVE Worldwide Industries, Inc.Peter Cheng, HighPower InternationalMichael Thackeray, Argonne National LaboratoryMark Verbrugge, General MotorsSteve Visco, PolyPlus Battery CompanyJohn Warner, Xalt EnergyJay Whitacre, Aquion Energy; Carnegie Mellon UniversityRalph Wise, BASF MaterialsKai Wu, ATLRachid Yazami, Nanyang Technological UniversityJohn Zhang, Celgard

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phosphate, Maiko Sakai, Taketsugu Yamamoto, Masami Makidera, Satoru Kuze, and Takeshi Hattori, Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,795,895 (20140805), Power storage device, Mikio Yukawa and Tamae Moriwaka, Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,795,896 (20140805), Lithium-containing composite oxide and its production method, Takeshi Kawasato, Takuya Mihara, Koichiro Ueda, Yukimitsu Wakasugi, and Nozomi Honda, AGC Seimi Chemical Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,795,897 (20140805), Material for lithium secondary battery of high performance, Hong kyu Park, Sun sik Shin, Sin young Park, Ho suk Shin, and Jens M Paulsen, LG Chem, Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,795,898 (20140805), Plate-like particle for cathode active material of a lithium secondary battery, a cathode active material film of a lithium secondary battery, and a lithium secondary battery, Ryuta Sugiura, Nobuyuki Kobayashi, Shohei Yokoyama, and Tsutomu Nanataki, NGK Insulators, Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,795,899 (20140805), Lithium super-battery with a functionalized nano graphene cathode, Chenguang Liu, Aruna Zhamu, David Neff, and Bor Z. Jang, Nanotek Instruments, Inc. U.S. 8,795,900 (20140805), Single-layer microporous foil for batteries having shut-off function, Bertram Schmitz and Detlef Busch, Treofan Germany GmbH & Co. KG (DE). U.S. 8,795,902 (20140805), Solid electrolyte material, lithium battery, and method of producing solid electrolyte material, Chihiro Yada, Hiroshi Suyama, Shoji Yokoishi, Brian Elliot Hayden, Thierry Le Gall, Duncan Clifford Alan Smith, and Christopher Edward Lee, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP). U.S. 8,795,903 (20140805), Lithium-ion electrolytes containing flame retardant additives for increased safety characteristics, Marshall C. Smart, Kiah A. Smith, Ratnakumar V. Bugga, Surya G. Prakash, and Frederick Charles Krause, California Institute of Technology. U.S. 8,795,904 (20140805), Nonaqueous electrolyte solvents and additives, Kang Conrad Xu, The United States of America. U.S. 8,795,905 (20140805), Electrolytes for lithium ion batteries, John Vaughey, Andrew N. Jansen, and Dennis W. Dees, UChicago Argonne, LLC. U.S. 8,795,906 (20140805), Silicon hydride nanocrystals as catalysts for proton production in water-organic liquid mixtures, Sahraoui Chaieb and Christopher Holt, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (SA). U.S. 8,795,907 (20140805), Compressor system with a freewheeling expander, Marc Becker, Remy Fontaine, and Thomas W. Tighe, GM Global Technology Operations LLC. U.S. 8,795,908 (20140805), Fuel cell system, Takahiro Kaito, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,795,909 (20140805), Porous flow field plate for moisture distribution control in a fuel cell, Robert Mason Darling and Shampa Kandoi, Ballard Power Systems Inc. (CA). U.S. 8,795,910 (20140805), Solid oxide fuel cell device, Naoki Watanabe, Yousuke Akagi, Shuichiro Saigan, and Nobuo Isaka, Toto Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,795,911 (20140805), Fuel cell module with a water reservoir including a water storing portion expanding from a cell unit to an anode side, Shunsuke Taniguchi and Takahiro Isono, JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corp. (JP). U.S. 8,795,912 (20140805), Systems and processes for operating fuel cell systems, Jingyu Cui, Erik Edwin Engwall, John William Johnston, Mahendra Ladharam Joshi, and Scott Lee Wellington, Shell Oil Co. U.S. 8,795,913 (20140805), Fuel cell system and control method thereof, Hiroaki Mori and Kenji Umayahara, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP). U.S. 8,795,914 (20140805), Fuel cell system, Shigeto Kajiwara, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP). U.S. 8,795,915 (20140805), Fuel cell system, Hiroyuki

Imanishi, Kota Manabe, Yoshiaki Naganuma, and Tomoya Ogawa, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP). U.S. 8,795,916 (20140805), Fuel cell system having heat exchanger and preliminary reformer and method of operating the fuel cell system, Tomio Miyazaki, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,795,917 (20140805), Fuel cell system with control of the pressure of the reactants within the system, Naohiro Yoshida, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP). U.S. 8,795,918 (20140805), Single fuel cell and fuel cell stack, Keita Shimomura, Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,795,919 (20140805), Fuel cell layer, Goro Fujita, Erin Cooney, and James Alexander Sawada, Société BIC (FR) and SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,795,920 (20140805), Separator and separator seal for polymer electrolyte fuel cells, Daisuke Okonogi, Satoru Terada, Noriyuki Meguriya, and Osamu Hayashida, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (JP) and Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,795,921 (20140805), Aligning method for repeating and non-repeating units in a fuel cell stack, Jeffrey A. Rock, Benno Andreas-Schott, Thomas P. Migliore, Ivan D. Chapman, Matthew J. Beutel, and Mark W. Keyser, GM Global Technology Operations LLC. U.S. 8,795,922 (20140805), Cell for fuel cell and fuel cell, Chisato Kato, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP). U.S. 8,795,923 (20140805), Reinforced electrolyte membrane for fuel cell, fuel cell membrane-electrode assembly, and solid polymer electrolyte fuel cell comprising the fuel cell membrane-electrode assembly, Yasuhiro Akita, Takeshi Nagasawa, Takeyuki Suzuki, and Toyohiro Matsuura, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP) and W L Gore & Associates Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,795,924 (20140805), Crown ether containing PEM electrode, Timothy J. Fuller, Lijun Zou, James Mitchell, and Michael R Schoeneweiss, GM Global Technology Operations LLC. U.S. 8,795,925 (20140805), Fuel composition for polymer electrolyte fuel cell and polymer electrolyte fuel cell system including same, In-Hyuk Son, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,795,926 (20140805), Pump assembly for a fuel cell system, Daniel Braithwaite, Tibor Fabian, Tobin J. Fisher, Jonathan Louis Glassman, Andrew Phillip Gust Peterson, Adam Rodriguez, and Russell Barton, Intelligent Energy Ltd. (GB). U.S. 8,795,927 (20140805), Highly durable electrode catalyst layer, Naoto Miyake, Asahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha (JP). U.S. 8,796,170 (20140805), Layered catalyst, Alireza Pezhman Shirvanian, GM Global Technology Operations LLC. U.S. 8,796,412 (20140805), Polymer electrolyte membrane, Seong-Ho Choi and Won-Ho Lee, LG Chem, Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,796,984 (20140805), Fuel cell system, control method for the fuel cell system, and vehicle equipped with the fuel cell system, Michio Yoshida and Atsushi Imai, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP). U.S. 8,796,992 (20140805), Basic unit of lithium-ion battery, battery pack comprising the same, and charge/discharge equalizing method thereof, Yuebin Wu (CN). U.S. 8,796,993 (20140805), Historical analysis of battery cells for determining state of health, David Allen White and Claude Leonard Benckenstein Jr, Southwest Electronic Energy Corp. U.S. 8,796,994 (20140805), Control apparatus for secondary battery and control method for secondary battery, Hiroyuki Abe and Tetsuya Hatta, NGK Insulators, Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,796,996 (20140805), Charge control circuit, battery pack, and charge system, Toshiyuki Nakatsuji and Tsuyoshi Morimoto, Panasonic Corp. (JP). U.S. 8,797,715 (20140805), Capacitor with parallel nanotubes, Nicholas S. Bromer, Empire Technology Development LLC. U.S. 8,797,716 (20140805), Electrochemical cell, Tsuneaki Tamachi, Ryo Sato, Isamu Shinoda, and Shunji Watanabe, Seiko Instruments Inc. (JP). U.S. 8,797,717 (20140805), Electrodes and electric double

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layer capacitance devices comprising an activated carbon cryogel, Aaron M. Feaver and Guozhong Cao, University of Washington and EnerG2, Inc. U.S. 8,798,832 (20140805), Electric storage device, Youhei Kawahara, Kei Sakabe, and Akihiko Emori, Hitachi, Ltd. (JP) and Hitachi Vehicle Energy, Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,798,945 (20140805), Computing device and method for testing charging and discharging reliability of rechargable battery, Shen-Chun Li, Hsien-Chuan Liang, and Shou-Kuo Hsu, Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. (TW). U.S. 8,800,591 (20140812), Battery spill containment trays, battery spill containment systems, and methods of battery spill containment, Douglas Frazier, Environmental Compliance Solutions, LLC. U.S. 8,801,444 (20140812), Busbar and busbar manufacturing method, Akira Sakae and Kotaro Toyotake, Kobe Steel, Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,801,810 (20140812), Conducting formation cycles, Yi Cui, Eugene M. Berdichevsky, Graeme R. Hoste, Rainer J. Fasching, Song Han, and Mark C Platshon, Amprius, Inc. U.S. 8,801,960 (20140812), Lithium-containing complex oxide, non-aqueous secondary battery using the lithium-containing complex oxide, and method for producing the lithium-containing complex oxide, Atsushi Ueda, Kazutaka Uchitomi, and Shigeo Aoyama, Hitachi Maxell, Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,801,961 (20140812), Electrocatalyst support and catalyst supported thereon, John W. Weidner and Brenda L. Garcia, University of South Carolina. U.S. 8,801,974 (20140812), Cobalt oxide, composite of cobalt oxide, and method for making the same, Jian-Jun Li, Xiang-Ming He, Li Wang, Dan Wang, Xian-Kun Huang, and Chang-Yin Jiang, Tsinghua University (CN) and Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. (TW). U.S. 8,801,984 (20140812), Microporous polyolefin multi layer film and preparing method thereof, Jang-Weon Rhee, Inhwa Jung, Gwigwon Kang, and Youngkeun Lee, SK Innovation Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,802,248 (20140812), Battery pack having protection from static electricity, Chilsung Park, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,802,249 (20140812), Cellular fusible link and battery module configuration, Steven Anthony Mayer and Kyle William Butterfield, EEtrex, Inc. U.S. 8,802,250 (20140812), Fuel cell bypass diode structures and attachment methods, Matthias Gottmann, Arne Ballantine, and Chockkalingam Karuppaiah, Bloom Energy Corp. U.S. 8,802,252 (20140812), Method for extending the useful life of a chargeable energy storage unit, Joachim Froeschl, Sebastian Scharner, and Thomas Christ, Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft (DE). U.S. 8,802,253 (20140812), Weld validation system and method for a battery module, Janina Stancu and Kenneth J. Oswande, LG Chem, Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,802,254 (20140812), Battery module, Hyun-Ye Lee, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR) and Robert Bosch GmbH (DE). U.S. 8,802,255 (20140812), Secondary battery and its method of manufacture, Sungjae Cho, Sangsok Jung, and Masanori Kogure, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,802,256 (20140812), Safety device for a sealed cell, Gerard Rigobert, Claude Gilabert, Jonac Philippe, and Dominique Ligeois, Saft (FR). U.S. 8,802,257 (20140812), Battery pack and driving method thereof, Jinwan Kim, Jongwoon Yang, Susumu Segawa, Tetsuya Okada, Euijeong Hwang, Sesub Sim, Hanseok Yun, and Beomgyu Kim, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,802,258 (20140812), Low profile manifold for single point watering system for lead-acid batteries, Daniel N. Campau and Patrick Mavrakis, Flow-Rite Controls, Ltd. and Trojan Battery Co. U.S. 8,802,259 (20140812), Battery pack of compact structure, Bum Hyum Lee, Jin Kyu Lee, Min Jung Kim, Jong Moon Yoon, and Dal Mo Kang, LG Chem, Ltd. (KR).

U.S. 8,802,260 (20140812), Separation method of secondary battery, Toshiaki Nakanishi and Shuhei Marukawa, Panasonic EV Energy Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,802,261 (20140812), Battery cell of curved shape and battery pack employed with the same, Eun-Young Goh, Byungjin Choi, Hyang Mok Lee, and Hyun-Chul Jung, LG Chem, Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,802,262 (20140812), Secondary battery, Chang-Bum Ahn, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,802,263 (20140812), Battery pack and method of manufacturing the same, Sangdo Heo, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,802,264 (20140812), Easy-to-assemble battery pack with prismatic battery cells, Yhu-Tin Lin and Andrew H. Leutheuser, GM Global Technology Operations LLC. U.S. 8,802,265 (20140812), Method for storing electrical energy in ionic liquids, Jens Noack, Jens Tübke, and Karsten Pinkwart, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der Angewandten Forschung EV (DE). U.S. 8,802,266 (20140812), System for operating an electrical energy storage device or an electrochemical energy generation device using microchannels based on mobile device states and vehicle states, Alistair K. Chan, Roderick A. Hyde, Jordin T. Kare, and Lowell L. Wood Jr., The Invention Science Fund I, LLC. U.S. 8,802,267 (20140812), Temperature adjusting structure for electric storage module, Nobuyoshi Fujiwara and Junta Katayama, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP). U.S. 8,802,268 (20140812), Electrochemical device and manufacturing method thereof, Hagiwara, Katsuei Ishida, and Kazushi Yawata, Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,802,269 (20140812), Flat nonaqueous secondary battery, Yuko Onishi, Toshikazu Yoshiba, and Megumu Takai, Hitachi Maxell, Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,802,270 (20140812), Multi-layer microporous film for batteries having shut-off function, Bertram Schmitz and Detlef Busch, Treofan Germany GmbH & Co. KG (DE). U.S. 8,802,271 (20140812), Separator for non-aqueous batteries, non-aqueous battery using same, and production method for separator for non-aqueous batteries, Tomohiro Hayakawa, Hideo Hayashi, Hideki Kamada, Takayoshi Hosoya, and Hiroyuki Kawai, Kuraray Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,802,272 (20140812), Method of producing polyolefin microporous membrane and separator for lithium ion battery, Ippei Noda, Takemoto Yushi Kabushiki Kaisha (JP). U.S. 8,802,273 (20140812), Microporous polyethylene membrane, its production method, and battery separator, Kotaro Takita, Shintaro Kikuchi, Kazuhiro Yamada, Teiji Nakamura, and Koichi Kono, Toray Battery Separator Film Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,802,274 (20140812), Secondary battery module and secondary battery module apparatus, Tadashi Yoshida and Katsunori Nishimura, Hitachi, Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,802,275 (20140812), Battery module, Dukjung Kim, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR) and Robert Bosch GmbH (DE). U.S. 8,802,276 (20140812), Secondary battery, Sangwon Byun, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR) and Robert Bosch GmbH (DE). U.S. 8,802,277 (20140812), Electrode structure and battery device manufacturing method, Takenori Tsuchiya, Hiroki Nagai, and Masahide Hikosaka, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP). U.S. 8,802,278 (20140812), Rechargeable battery, Sang-Hun Park, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,802,279 (20140812), Battery cover assembly and battery having the same, Luxia Jiang, Dongna Shi, Wenya Pi, Qing Lai, and Jianhua Zhu, Shenzhen BYD Auto R&D Co. Ltd. (CN) and BYD Co. Ltd. (CN). U.S. 8,802,281 (20140812), Secondary battery with movement prevention tape, Daekyu Kim, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,802,282 (20140812), Battery parts having retaining and sealing features and associated methods of manufacture and use, Michael A. Garin and Kurt T. Gifford, Water Gremlin Co. U.S. 8,802,283 (20140812), Fabricating method of secondary

battery, Chul Youm, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,802,284 (20140812), Battery pack, Woon-Seong Baek and Jong-Pil Kim, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,802,285 (20140812), Organic electrolytic solution comprising cycloolefin monomer and lithium battery employing the same, Young-gyoon Ryu, Yoon-sok Kang, Dong-joon Lee, Seok-soo Lee, and Seung-sik Hwang, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,802,286 (20140812), Negative electrode for use with secondary battery and secondary battery using such negative electrode, Isamu Konishiike, Kenichi Kawase, Shigeru Fujita, and Momoe Adachi, Sony Corp. (JP). U.S. 8,802,287 (20140812), Quantum dot ultracapacitor and electron battery, Timothy P. Holme and Friedrich B. Prinz, The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. U.S. 8,802,288 (20140812), Electrode including current collector with nano-scale coating and method of making the same, Ranjith Divigalpitiya and Mary I. Buckett, 3M Innovative Properties Co. U.S. 8,802,289 (20140812), Composition for electrode comprising an iron compound with carbon and a (meth)acrylate-nitrile copolymer, Mayumi Fukumine, Mitsuhiro Mori, Masahiro Yamakawa, and Hidekazu Mori, Zeon Corp. (JP). U.S. 8,802,290 (20140812), Cathode composite material, method for making the same, and lithium ion battery using the same, Ya-Dong Li, Jun Lu, Cai-Yun Nan, Li-Hong Li, and Qing Peng, Tsinghua University (CN) and Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. (TW). U.S. 8,802,291 (20140812), Cathode composite material and lithium ion battery using the same, Ya-Dong Li, Jun Lu, Ding-Sheng Wang, and Qing Peng, Tsinghua University (CN) and Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. (TW). U.S. 8,802,292 (20140812), Hydrogen-absorbing alloy for alkaline storage battery and method for manufacturing the same, Shuhei Yoshida, Kazuaki Tamura, Yoshinobu Katayama, and Teruhito Nagae, SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,802,293 (20140812), Positive electrode material, Kazuki Takimoto, Hideo Yanagita, and Tsutomu Kikuchi, Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (JP) and Nippon Chemical Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,802,294 (20140812), Nickel hydroxide, method for producing positive electrode active material for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, electrode for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, and non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, Hidekazu Hiratsuka and Shigeru Hanaoka, Panasonic Corp. (JP). U.S. 8,802,295 (20140812), Electrode (anode and cathode) performance enhancement by composite formation with graphene oxide, Reinhard Nesper, Tommy Kaspar, and Yoann Mettan, Belenos Clean Power Holding AG (CH). U.S. 8,802,296 (20140812), Amorphous carbon material for negative electrode of lithium ion secondary battery and nonaqueous secondary battery comprising same, Noriyo Ishimaru, Takashi Suzuki, and Takefumi Kono, JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corp. (JP). U.S. 8,802,297 (20140812), Graphite particles and lithium secondary battery using the same as negative electrode, Yoshito Ishii, Tatsuya Nishida, Atsushi Fujita, and Kazuo Yamada, Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,802,298 (20140812), Non-aqueous electrolyte secondary cell, Shinya Miyazaki and Hironori Shirakata, SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,802,299 (20140812), Non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, Hidekazu Yamamoto, Atsushi Fukui, Taizou Sunano, and Maruo Kamino, SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,802,300 (20140812), Rechargeable lithium battery, Jong-Hwa Lee, Duck-Chul Hwang, Jeom-Soo Kim, Yong-Chul Park, Jae-Yul Ryu, Euy-Young Jung, and So-Hyun Hur, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,802,301 (20140812), Lithium ion battery electrolyte including a vitreous eutectic mixture, Ion C. Halalay, Damon R. Frisch, Olt E. Geiculescu, Darryl D. Desmarteau, Stephen E. Creager,

and Changqing Lu, GM Global Technology Operations LLC. U.S. 8,802,302 (20140812), Air battery including oxygen-containing solvent, Shinji Nakanishi and Hirotoshi Imai, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP). U.S. 8,802,303 (20140812), Metal air battery including a composite anode, Ezekiel Kruglick, Thomas Yager, and Seth Adrian Miller, Empire Technology Development LLC. U.S. 8,802,304 (20140812), Bifunctional (rechargeable) air electrodes comprising a corrosion-resistant outer layer and conductive inner layer, Steven Amendola, Michael Binder, Phillip J Black, Stefanie Sharp-Goldman, Lois Johnson, Michael Kunz, Michael Oster, Tesia Chciuk, and Regan Johnson, Eos Energy Storage, LLC. U.S. 8,802,305 (20140812), Fuel cell system and processes, Bernd Karuse, GM Global Technology Operations LLC. U.S. 8,802,306 (20140812), Fuel cell system and stack thereof, Sang-Il Han, Kah-Young Song, Jin-Hwa Lee, Myoung-Ki Min, and Young-Mi Park, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,802,307 (20140812), Method for producing dihydrogen from hydrogenated silicon, Bernard Gauthier-Manuel, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) (FR) and Universite de Franche-Comte (FR). U.S. 8,802,308 (20140812), Fuel cell system with interruption control, Matthias Gottmann, Arne Ballantine, and James F. McElroy, Bloom Energy Corp. U.S. 8,802,309 (20140812), Fuel cell system, Norimasa Ishikawa, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP). U.S. 8,802,310 (20140812), Fuel cell system, Kenji Umayahara, Tadaichi Matsumoto, Fusaki Igarashi, Michio Yoshida, and Kota Manabe, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP). U.S. 8,802,311 (20140812), Fuel cell stack structure, Keita Iritsuki, Yasushi Ichikawa, and Yuichiro Tabuch, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,802,312 (20140812), Fuel cell separators capable of suppressing variation in pressure loss, Narutoshi Sugita, Masaru Oda, Masaaki Sakano, Norimasa Kawagoe, and Takashi Kosaka, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,802,313 (20140812), Fuel cell, Tetsuya Ogawa and Koji Dan, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,802,314 (20140812), Reinforced electrolyte membrane for fuel cell, membrane-electrode assembly for fuel cell, and polymer electrolyte fuel cell comprising the same, Yasuhiro Akita, Masanori Aimu, Tatsuya Kawahara, Takeshi Nagasawa, Toyohiro Matsuura, Takeyuki Suzuki, Hiroshi Kato, and Hideki Yamada, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP) and W L Gore & Associates, Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,802,315 (20140812), Composition, composite prepared from the composition, electrode using the composition or the composite, composite membrane including the composite, and fuel cell including the composite membrane, Ki-hyun Kim, Pil-won Heo, Chan-ho Pak, and Seong-woo Choi, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,802,316 (20140812), Solid oxide fuel cells having porous cathodes infiltrated with oxygen-reducing catalysts, Meilin Liu, Ze Liu, Mingfei Liu, Lifang Nie, David Spencer Mebane, Lane Curtis Wilson, and Wayne Surdoval, U.S. Department of Energy. U.S. 8,802,317 (20140812), Oxidation-stabilised polymer electrolyte membrane for fuel cells, Florian Finsterwalder, Thomas Soczka-Guth, and Manuel Christian Schaloske, Daimler AG (DE). U.S. 8,802,318 (20140812), Compound and composition including compound, with fuel cell, fuel cell electrode and fuel cell electrolyte membrane using same, Seong-woo Choi, Cheol-hee Ahn, Jung-ock Park, and So-young Park, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (KR) and SNU R&DB Foundation (KR). U.S. 8,802,319 (20140812), Block copolymer electrolyte composite membranes and methods of producing the same, Chong-Min Koo, Soon-Man Hong, Seung-Sang Hwang, Kyung-Youl Baek, Jang-Woo Lee, Jin-Hong Lee, Youn-Duk Park, Kyung-Ho Min, and Ji-Young Jung, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KR).

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U.S. 8,802,320 (20140812), Electrolytic membrane comprising a crystalline organic and inorganic porous composite for fuel cell, electrode and fuel cell, and fuel cell including the electrolytic membrane and/or the electrode, Seong-woo Choi, Ki-hyun Kim, Kyo-sung Park, and Seon-ah Jin, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,802,321 (20140812), Horizontally graded structures for electrochemical and electronic devices, Peter Halvor Larsen, Peter Vang Hendriksen, Soren Linderoth, and Mogens Mogensen, Technical University of Denmark (DK). U.S. 8,802,322 (20140812), Interconnect-type solid oxide fuel cell and fuel cell stack having the same, Duk-Hyoung Yoon, Sang-Jun Kong, Tae-Ho Kwon, Kwang-Jin Park, Gyu-Jong Bae, Hyun Soh, and Young-Sun Kwon, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,802,323 (20140812), Method for the production of electrical energy from ammonium, Katrien Hemmes and Lambert Hooiveld, HaskoningDHV Nederland BV (NL). U.S. 8,802,324 (20140812), Hybrid sealing composite for flat solid oxide fuel cell stack, Jong-Ho Lee, Hae-Weon Lee, Joo-Sun Kim, Hue-Sup Song, Ji-Won Son, Hae-Ryoung Kim, Sung-Moon Kim, Hyoung-Chul Kim, and Hwa-Young Jung, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KR). U.S. 8,802,325 (20140812), Fuel cell stack having tightening members, Go Morimoto, Takashi Kuwayama, and Hiroyuki Tanaka, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,802,326 (20140812), Fuel cell separator plate, Steven J. Spencer, Seth D. Valentine, Courtney E. Reich, and Daniel P. Miller, GM Global Technology Operations LLC. U.S. 8,802,327 (20140812), Electrode structure capable of separate delivering gas and fluid and passive fuel cell using the same, Fan Gang Tseng, Hsien Chih Peng, and Po Hung Chen, National Tsing Hua University (TW). U.S. 8,802,328 (20140812), Method of producing a shaped part, Marco Brandner, Stefan Gerzoskovitz, Wolfgang Kraussler, Alexander Leuprecht, and Andreas Venskutonis, Plansee SE (AT). U.S. 8,802,329 (20140812), Electrode containing nanostructured thin catalytic layers and method of making, Chunxin Ji and Matthew Dioguardi, GM Global Technology Operations LLC. U.S. 8,802,330 (20140812), Method for manufacturing composite separator for fuel cell and composite separator manufactured by the same, Dai Gil Lee, Ha Na Yu, Byoung Chul Kim, Bu Gi Kim, Jun Woo Lim, Jung Do Suh, Byung Ki Ahn, and Sae Hoon Kim, Hyundai Motor Co. (KR) and Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KR). U.S. 8,802,331 (20140812), Non-destructive testing methods for fuel cell interconnect manufacturing, Harald Herchen and Martin Janousek, Bloom Energy Corp. U.S. 8,802,332 (20140812), Fuel cell current collector with loading material deposited thereon and method of making same, Salvador E. Correa, Thomas M. Lucas, and Lawrence J. Novacco, FuelCell Energy, Inc. U.S. 8,802,742 (20140812), Expandable functional TFE copolymer fine powder, expanded products and reacted products therefrom, Ping Xu, Jack J. Hegenbarth, Xin Kang Chen, Rachel Radspinner, Paul D. Drumheller, William B. Johnson, and Wen K. Liu, W L Gore & Associates, Inc. U.S. 8,802,793 (20140812), Polymer electrolyte with aromatic sulfone crosslinking, Naiyong Jing, Michael A. Yandrasits, and Steven J. Hamrock, 3M Innovative Properties Co. U.S. 8,803,470 (20140812), Electric vehicle extended range hybrid battery pack system, Sarah G. Stewart, Scott Ira Kohn, Kurt Russell Kelty, and Jeffrey Brian Straubel, Tesla Motors, Inc. U.S. 8,803,471 (20140812), Electric vehicle extended range hybrid battery pack system, Sarah G. Stewart, Scott Ira Kohn, Kurt Russell Kelty, and Jeffrey Brian Straubel, Tesla Motors, Inc. U.S. 8,803,473 (20140812), Pulse modulation charging method and apparatus, Chun-Yi Lu, Getac Technology Corp. (TW). U.S. 8,803,477 (20140812), Battery module for high-current rapid charging, Robert P. Kittell, Electricab Corp.

U.S. 8,803,479 (20140812), Hybrid battery and its charging/discharging method, Bongyoung Kim, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,803,481 (20140812), Battery pack and method of controlling the same, Takashi Tachikawa, Masaki Hogari, and Kiyohiko Watanabe, Sony Corp. (JP). U.S. 8,803,482 (20140812), Nonaqueous electrolyte type secondary battery system and vehicle, Tomoyoshi Ueki, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP). U.S. 8,803,483 (20140812), Secondary battery pack power supply system, Kazuhisa Nagase, NEC Energy Devices, Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,803,528 (20140812), Apparatus and method for measuring current and voltage of secondary battery pack in synchronization manner, Ju-Young Kim, Do-Youn Kim, and Do-Yang Jung, LG Chem, Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,804,309 (20140812), Low temperature double-layer capacitors using asymmetric and spiro-type quaternary ammonium salts, Erik J. Brandon, Marshall C. Smart, and William C. West, California Institute of Technology. U.S. 8,804,310 (20140812), Electrochemical device, Toshiya Terui, Tomofumi Akiba, Katsuei Ishida, Naoto Hagiwara, Satoshi Nagura, Shin Nakagawa, and Tomohiro Taguchi, Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,804,311 (20140812), Electrolyte solution and electric energy storing device using electrolyte solution, Masaaki Sasa, Tamotsu Yamamoto, Tsutomu Tanaka, and Kensuke Yoshida, Fujitsu Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,807,433 (20140819), Direct methanol fuel cell system, fuel cartridge, system of operation, and system for detecting forgery, Scott C. Harris, Harris Technology, Inc. U.S. 8,808,031 (20140819), Battery connector system, Weiping Zhao, Tyco Electronics Corp. U.S. 8,808,404 (20140819), Method for making electrochemical cells, Wu Xu, Deng Zhongyi, and Bolomey Pascal, BASF Corp. U.S. 8,808,405 (20140819), Method of forming a solid state cathode for high energy density secondary batteries, Isaiah O. Oladeji, QuantumScape Corp. U.S. 8,808,406 (20140819), Method of manufacturing secondary battery, Daekyu Kim, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,808,407 (20140819), Method of manufacturing a solid lithium ion secondary battery with an electrolyte layer and/or positive electrode layer containing a crystallite having a lithium ion conducting property, Yasushi Inda, Ohara Inc (JP). U.S. 8,808,575 (20140819), Process for the preparation of porous crystalline lithium, vanadium and phosphate-comprising materials, Hartmut Hibst, Brian Roberts, Jordan Keith Lampert, and Kirill Bramnik, BASF SE (DE). U.S. 8,808,576 (20140819), Process for the preparation of porous crystalline lithium, vanadium and phosphate-comprising materials, Hartmut Hibst, Brian Roberts, Jordan Keith Lampert, and Kirill Bramnik, BASF SE (DE). U.S. 8,808,584 (20140819), Active material for lithium secondary battery, electrode for lithium secondary battery, lithium secondary battery, and method for producing the same, Daisuke Endo, Yoshihiro Katayama, and Toshiyuki Nukuda, GS Yuasa International Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,808,609 (20140819), Process of making a carbon fiber nonwoven fabric, Takahiro Kitano and Fujio Okino, TEC One Co., Ltd. (JP) and Shinshu University (JP). U.S. 8,808,883 (20140819), Secondary battery pack of compact structure, Youngsun Park, Jeongsuk Lee, Keunpyo Ahn, Chunyeon Kim, Joung Ho Ha, and Masayuki Wakebe, LG Chem, Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,808,884 (20140819), Electrode assembly and secondary battery including the same, Sooan Song, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,808,885 (20140819), Voltage sensing member and battery module employed with the same, Bum Hyun Lee, Jin Kyu Lee, Jongmoon Yoon, Jae Hun Yang, Yongshik Shin, and Dal Mo Kang,

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LG Chem, Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,808,886 (20140819), Battery management system and method thereof, and power storage apparatus using the same, Meen-Suk Kim, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,808,887 (20140819), Battery pack, Young-Bin Lim, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR) and Robert Bosch GmbH (DE). U.S. 8,808,888 (20140819), Flow battery systems, Gregory J. Wilson and Kyle M. Hanson, Applied Materials, Inc. U.S. 8,808,889 (20140819), Sealed battery and manufacturing method thereof, and vehicle and device having the same mounted thereon, Satoshi Suzuki and Katsumi Ito, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP). U.S. 8,808,890 (20140819), Battery system and battery safety alarm system, Kenichi Fuse, Empire Technology Development LLC. U.S. 8,808,892 (20140819), Temporary insulator for battery packs and associated systems and methods, Thomas P. Maxwell and Eric Petterson, Greatbatch Ltd. U.S. 8,808,893 (20140819), Battery module of excellent structural stability, Yeon Seok Choo, Jin Kyu Lee, Jung Min Park, Ye Hoon Im, and Hyun Chul Park, LG Chem, Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,808,894 (20140819), Battery tray retaining system, Scott Munro, Luke D. Griffith, George F. Gauchey, and Randy T. Gerken, Chrysler Group LLC. U.S. 8,808,895 (20140819), Battery protection structures, Shayan Malek, Miguel C. Christophy, and Jared M. Kole, Apple Inc. U.S. 8,808,896 (20140819), Battery pack of excellent structural stability, Yeon Seok Choo, Jin Kyu Lee, Bum Hyun Lee, Sang Yoon Jeong, and Ye Hoon Im, LG Chem, Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,808,897 (20140819), Electrode structure of vanadium redox flow battery, Mao-huang Liu and Kuan-yi Lee, Fu Jen Catholic University (TW). U.S. 8,808,898 (20140819), Battery pack for an electric powertrain vehicle, Franck M. Alizon, Caroline Marchal, and Didier M. Deruy, Renault SAS (FR). U.S. 8,808,899 (20140819), Cell case and structure for attaching cell case, Tomio Nagashima, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,808,900 (20140819), Cylindrical lithium ion secondary battery, Yoo Eup Hyung, Seok Gyun Chang, Soon Ki Woo, and Youn Han Chang, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,808,901 (20140819), Anode protector of lithium-ion battery and method for fabricating the same, Fu-Ming Wang, Hsin-Yi Wang, and Chin-Shu Cheng, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (TW). U.S. 8,808,902 (20140819), Electrode assembly including ceramic layer disposed along the length of the positive electrode and secondary battery using the same, Hyorim Bak and Youngchurl Chang, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,808,903 (20140819), Battery with wound electrode group and positive and negative electrode insulating covers, Tatsuya Shinoda, Hideyuki Ishii, Kengo Kurata, Yoshiaki Asami, Tsutomu Matsui, Eiki Kashiwazaki, and Kenichi Takahashi, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (JP). U.S. 8,808,904 (20140819), Secondary battery with protective circuit module and secondary protective element assembly, Youngcheol Jang, Nohyun Kwak, and Sangjoo Lee, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,808,905 (20140819), Cylinder type lithium ion secondary battery, Seok Gyun Chang and Woongju Lee, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,808,907 (20140819), Battery module, Hirotatsu Matsuo, Ryoichi Takatsu, Kaoru Ishii, and Naoto Todoroki, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,808,908 (20140819), Battery module of novel structure, Seungjae You, Sung-Woo Kim, John E. Namgoong, and Jisang Yu, LG Chem, Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,808,909 (20140819), Lithium ion batteries using discrete carbon nanotubes, methods for production thereof and products obtained therefrom, Clive P. Bosnyak and Kurt W. Swogger,

Molecular Rebar Design LLC. U.S. 8,808,910 (20140819), Non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, electrode used for secondary battery, and method of manufacturing electrode, Hideaki Morishima, Takashi Kobayashi, Seiichi Hikata, Yoshikazu Kobayashi, Takahisa Ohsaki, Natsuki Toyota, and Haruchika Ishii, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (JP). U.S. 8,808,911 (20140819), Cathode composite material and lithium ion battery using the same, Ya-Dong Li, Jun Lu, Ding-Sheng Wang, Xiang-Wen Liu, and Qing Peng, Tsinghua University (CN) and Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. (TW). U.S. 8,808,912 (20140819), Surface protected lithium-metal-oxide electrodes, Michael M. Thackeray and Sun-Ho Kang, UChicago Argonne, LLC. U.S. 8,808,913 (20140819), Composite positive electrode active material, electrode for lithium secondary battery including composite positive electrode active material, and lithium secondary battery, Mi Sun Lee, Pil Sang Yun, Doo Kyun Lee, Yun Ju Cho, and Shin Jung Choi, Samsung Fine Chemicals Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,808,914 (20140819), Lead-acid battery design having versatile form factor, Subhash Dhar, William Koetting, Michael Nielson, Kwok Tom, Jorge Espinel, and Fabio Albano, Energy Power Systems, LLC. U.S. 8,808,915 (20140819), Rechargeable lithium battery, So-Hyun Hur, Euy-Young Jung, Duck-Chul Hwang, Yong-Chul Park, Jong-Hwa Lee, Jeom-Soo Kim, Jae-Yul Ryu, and Jin-Bum Kim, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,808,916 (20140819), Cathode active material for lithium secondary batteries, method for preparing the same, and lithium secondary batteries comprising the same, Seong-Bae Kim, Woo-Seong Kim, Ki-Sup Song, Ji-Jun Hong, Sung-Tae Ko, and Yoon-Jeong Heo, Daejung EM Co., Ltd. (KR) and Kokam Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,808,917 (20140819), Power storage device having olivine type positive electrode active material with oriented crystal structure, Satoshi Murakami and Takahiro Kawakami, Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,808,918 (20140819), Rechargeable lithium battery, Euy-Young Jung, Duck-Chul Hwang, Jeom-Soo Kim, Jong-Hwa Lee, Yong-Chul Park, Jae-Yul Ryu, and So-Hyun Hur, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,808,919 (20140819), Negative electrode active material, negative electrode having the same and lithium secondary battery, Bong-Chull Kim, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,808,920 (20140819), Positive electrode active material, positive electrode, nonaqueous electrolyte cell, and method of preparing positive electrode active material, Koji Morita, Yosuke Hosoya, Satoshi Fujiki, Kazunari Motohashi, Guohua Li, and Kazuaki Endoh, Sony Corp. (JP). U.S. 8,808,921 (20140819), Current collector for flexible electrode, method of manufacturing same, and negative electrode including same, Soojin Park, Jae-Phil Cho, Hyun-Kon Song, and Jung-In Lee, UNIST Academy-Industry Research Corp. (KR). U.S. 8,808,922 (20140819), Electrode assembly and secondary battery using the same, Chang-Bum Ahn, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,808,923 (20140819), Separator for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery and non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery using the same, Yasushi Nakagiri, Yasuyuki Shibano, and Norihiro Yamamoto, Panasonic Corp. (JP). U.S. 8,808,924 (20140819), Electrolyte comprising eutectic mixture and secondary battery using the same, Byoung-Bae Lee, Shin-Jung Choi, Jae-Seung Oh, Ji-Won Park, Young-Kyu Han, Jae-Hoon Jung, and Jae-Duk Park, LG Chem, Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,808,925 (20140819), Microporous polymer membrane modified by aqueous polymer, manufacturing method and use thereof, Zhonglai Pan, Zhenghua Den, Rengui Li, Lu Wang, Kai Wang, Jiamin Deng, Hongchang Du, Jiandong Gao, and Jishuan Suo, Changzhou Zhongke Laifang Power Development Co., Ltd. (CN). U.S. 8,808,926 (20140819), Electrode active material for all-

solid-state secondary battery and all-solid-state secondary battery using the same, Kazuhiro Yamada and Masanori Endo, Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,808,927 (20140819), Nonaqueous electrolyte lithium secondary battery, Jong-Ho Jeon, Soo-Jin Kim, and Ho-Chun Lee, LG Chem, Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,808,928 (20140819), Fuel cell, method for operating the same, and electronic device, Takaaki Nakagawa, Hideki Sakai, Hideyuki Kumita, and Masaya Kakuta, Sony Corp. (JP). U.S. 8,808,929 (20140819), Metal-air cell comprising an electrolyte with a room temperature ionic liquid and hygroscopic additive, Cody A. Friesen, Ramkumar Krishnan, Toni Tang, and Derek Wolfe. U.S. 8,808,930 (20140819), Liquid air electrode for metal-air battery and metal-air battery provided with same, Fuminori Mizuno, Yukinari Kotani, and Kenichi Hamamoto, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP). U.S. 8,808,931 (20140819), Ion exchange filter for fuel cell system, Harlan Robert Goltz and Marvin H. Tegen, Dow Global Technologies LLC. U.S. 8,808,932 (20140819), Fuel cell system, Toyokazu Baika, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP). U.S. 8,808,934 (20140819), Low power control of fuel cell open circuit voltage, Matthew P. Wilson, Venkateshwarlu Yadha, and Carl A. Reiser, Ballard Power Systems Inc. (CA). U.S. 8,808,935 (20140819), Fuel cell system, Takatoshi Masui, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP). U.S. 8,808,936 (20140819), Fuel cell system and method for controlling electric current of same, Tamaki Mizuno and Takeshi Ibuka, JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corp. (JP). U.S. 8,808,938 (20140819), Fuel cell system, Robert Hahn and Christian Kunde, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung eV (DE). U.S. 8,808,939 (20140819), Fuel cell stack and fuel cell cogeneration system including the same, Yasushi Sugawara, Takahiro Umeda, and Soichi Shibata, Panasonic Corp. (JP). U.S. 8,808,940 (20140819), Solid oxide fuel cell with sealed structure, Frédérique Cordelle and Laure Desmazes, Commissariat a l’Energy Atomique (FR). U.S. 8,808,941 (20140819), Naphthoxazine benzoxazine-based monomer, polymer thereof, electrode for fuel cell including the polymer, electrolyte membrane for fuel cell including the polymer, and fuel cell using the electrode, Seongwoo Choi and Jungock Park, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,808,942 (20140819), Adhesive for fuel cell and membrane-electrode assembly produced using the same, Satoru Terada, Hiroshi Sohma, and Kenichi Tanaka, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,808,943 (20140819), Membrane electrode assembly including porous catalyst layer and method of manufacturing the same, Dae-jong You, Yoon-hoi Lee, Chan-ho Pak, and Ji-rae Kim, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,809,407 (20140819), Expandable functional TFE copolymer fine powder, expanded products and reacted products therefrom, Ping Xu, Jack J. Hegenbarth, Xin Kang Chen, Rachel Radspinner, Paul D. Drumheller, William B. Johnson, and Wen K. Liu, W L Gore & Associates, Inc. U.S. 8,809,483 (20140819), Functionalization of poly(phenylene) by the attachment of sidechains, Michael R. Hibbs, Sandia Corp. U.S. 8,810,079 (20140819), Battery pack and uninterruptible power supply having the same, Jung-Yup Han and No-Hyun Kwag, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,810,080 (20140819), Battery module of excellent structural stability, Yeon Seok Choo, Jin Kyu Lee, Ye Hoon Im, and Kwanyong Kim, LG Chem, Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,810,193 (20140819), Charging apparatus having gas generation detector and charging method for the same, Tomomi

Maruyama, Eiji Saiki, Akitoshi Kato, and Yoshihiro Honda, Iwasaki Electric Co., Ltd. (JP), Tokyo Rectifier Co., Ltd. (JP), and JPS Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,810,199 (20140819), Charge equalization between series-connected battery cells, Wolfgang Roeper, Atmel Automotive GmbH (DE). U.S. 8,810,201 (20140819), Battery management system and battery management method, Han-Seok Yun and Yusai Murakami, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,810,203 (20140819), Battery control device and battery control method, Hiroyuki Abe and Tetsuya Hatta, NGK Insulators, Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,810,204 (20140819), Protection of a thin-layer battery by periodically operating battery at maximum discharge current, Frédéric Cantin, STMicroelectronics (Tours) SAS (FR). U.S. 8,810,208 (20140819), Charging efficiency using selectable isolation, Jean-Pierre Krauer, Nicholas Robert Kalayjian, and Troy A Nergaard, Tesla Motors, Inc. U.S. 8,810,995 (20140819), Carbon nanotube composite, method for making the same, and electrochemical capacitor using the same, Rui-Feng Zhou, Chui-Zhou Meng, Kai Liu, Kai-Li Jiang, Chang-Hong Liu, and Shou-Shan Fan, Tsinghua University (CN) and Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. (TW). U.S. 8,814,955 (20140826), Method for manufacturing lithium ion secondary battery, and packaging thereof containing pre-charged lithium ion secondary battery, Tomokazu Kumeuchi, Koichi Zama, and Daisuke Kono, NEC Energy Devices, Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,814,956 (20140826), Power storage device, electrode, and manufacturing method thereof, Shunpei Yamazaki, Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,815,116 (20140826), Electrochemical composition and associated technology, Ko-Yu Chiu, Advanced Lithium Electrochemistry Co., Ltd. (TW). U.S. 8,815,335 (20140826), Method of coating a substrate with nanoparticles including a metal oxide, Mahmoud H. Abd Elhamid, Youssef M. Mikhail, Gayatri Vyas Dadheech, and Curtis A. Wong, GM Global Technology Operations LLC. U.S. 8,815,338 (20140826), Method for producing composite lithium iron phosphate material and composite lithium iron phosphate material produced by same, Liguang Ye, Haite Electronic Group Co., Ltd. (CN). U.S. 8,815,384 (20140826), Aromatic polyamide porous film and separator for capacitor or battery using the same, Atsushi Sawamoto, Kenta Nishibara, and Akimitsu Tsukuda, Toray Industries, Inc (JP). U.S. 8,815,421 (20140826), Printed circuit board and battery pack using the same, Jin-Sung Park, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,815,422 (20140826), Battery pack, Jintae Hong and Jaeuk Ryu, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,815,423 (20140826), Fuel cell system comprising voltage adjustment portion, control method for the fuel cell system, and vehicle equipped with the fuel cell system, Michio Yoshida, Atsushi Imai, and Tomoya Ogawa,, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP). U.S. 8,815,424 (20140826), Battery pack safety and thermal management apparatus and method, Karl Frederick Scheucher. U.S. 8,815,425 (20140826), Protection cover attachment structure of battery-mounted fusible link unit, Norihiro Ohashi and Hideaki Tsukiji, Yazaki Corp. (JP). U.S. 8,815,426 (20140826), Prismatic sealed secondary cell and method of manufacturing the same, Taiki Kamifuji, Takenori Kimura, and Kousuke Yamamoto, SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,815,427 (20140826), Spirally wound non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery having insulating members, Masaki Machida, Sony Corp. (JP). U.S. 8,815,428 (20140826), Frame of a cell of a redox flow battery, Martin Harrer and Herbert Bucsich, Cellstrom GmbH (AT). U.S. 8,815,429 (20140826), Busbar supports and methods

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of their use for battery systems, Jonathan E. Hostler, Mujeeb Ijaz, and Shazad M. Butt, A123 Systems LLC. U.S. 8,815,430 (20140826), Sealed battery and battery stack comprising a plurality of sealed batteries, Kazuya Okabe, Takahiro Itagaki, Satoshi Yokota, Tomonori Kishimoto, Shuichi Izuchi, and Masahiko Oshitani, GS Yuasa International Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,815,431 (20140826), Battery module unit and battery module package, Jung-Yup Han and No-Hyun Kwak, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,815,432 (20140826), Heat resisting ultrafine fibrous separator and secondary battery using the same, Seong-Mu Jo, Dong-Young Kim, and Byung-Doo Chin, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KR). U.S. 8,815,433 (20140826), Method for manufacturing separator, separator manufactured by the method and method for manufacturing electrochemical device including the separator, Joo-Sung Lee, Jang-Hyuk Hong, Jong-Hun Kim, and Bo-Kyung Ryu, LG Chem, Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,815,434 (20140826), Electrode assembly for secondary battery with wound and folded separator portions and secondary battery having the same, Changbum Ahn, Jeongsoon Shin, and Youngbae Sohn, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,815,435 (20140826), Separator for nonaqueous secondary battery, Satoshi Nishikawa, Teijin Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,815,436 (20140826), Microporous membrane, methods for making such film, and the use of such film as battery separator film, Patrick Brant, Derek W. Thurman, and Daniel P. Cherney, Toray Battery Separator Film Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,815,437 (20140826), Rechargeable battery, Myung-Ro Lee, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,815,438 (20140826), Electrical conductor for energy store, Wolfgang Langhoff, Amphenol-Tuchel Electronics GmbH (DE). U.S. 8,815,439 (20140826), Secondary battery pack, Hyeon-Young Kim, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,815,440 (20140826), Battery cover member, Yoshiaki Kameda, Yasunori Uchida, Tadanobu Ota, Hikohito Yamazaki, and Takashi Harayama, Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,815,441 (20140826), Secondary battery, Dong-Woo Kim, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,815,442 (20140826), Textile electrode and accumulator containing such an electrode, Elodie Vidal and Stephane Lascaud, Electricite de France (FR). U.S. 8,815,443 (20140826), Dry-particle based adhesive and dry film and methods of making same, Porter Mitchell, Xiaomei Xi, Linda Zhong, and Bin Zou, Maxwell Technologies, Inc. U.S. 8,815,444 (20140826), Composite current collector for an aqueous electrochemical cell comprising a non-metallic substrate, Klaus Tomantschger, Rosecreek Technologies Inc (CA). U.S. 8,815,445 (20140826), Cathode active material for lithium secondary battery, Ryuta Sugiura, Nobuyuki Kobayashi, and Tsutomu Nanataki, NGK Insulators, Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,815,446 (20140826), Anode material, anode and battery, and methods of manufacturing them, Shinya Wakita and Izaya Okae, Sony Corp. (JP). U.S. 8,815,447 (20140826), Proton-conductive inorganic material for fuel cell and fuel cell anode employing the same, Jun Tamura, Yoshihiko Nakano, and Yasuhiro Goto, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (JP). U.S. 8,815,448 (20140826), Negative active material and lithium battery, So-Ra Lee, Jae-Myung Kim, Kyu-Nam Joo, Jong-Hee Lee, Tae-Sik Kim, Ui-Song Do, Young-Su Kim, Deok-Hyun Kim, Gu-Hyun Chung, Beom-Kwon Kim, Yong-Mi Yu, and Chang-Su Shin, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,815,449 (20140826), Positive electrode and non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, Takao Inoue, Masahisa Fujimoto, and Kumiko Kanai, SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,815,450 (20140826), Low voltage thin film batteries, John B. Bates, Oak Ridge Micro-Energy, Inc.

U.S. 8,815,451 (20140826), Negative-electrode plate and cylindrical cell including same, Satoshi Wada, Isao Mugima, Tomomi Nakamura, Masaru Kihara, and Toshiki Sato, FDK Twicell Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,815,453 (20140826), Flame retardant battery, Hisashi Tsukamoto, Quallion LLC. U.S. 8,815,454 (20140826), Lithium secondary battery, Yong-Shik Kim, Jin-Bum Kim, Jin-Sung Kim, and Na-Rae Park, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,815,455 (20140826), Hydrogen generator and fuel cell power generator, Akira Maenishi, Yuuji Mukai, and Hiroki Fujioka, Panasonic Corp. (JP). U.S. 8,815,456 (20140826), Fuel cell system, Takashi Shigehisa, Kyocera Corp. (JP). U.S. 8,815,457 (20140826), Method for storing a fuel cell at freezing temperature, Eric Pinton, Yannick Fourneron, and Armel Guillermo, Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (FR). U.S. 8,815,458 (20140826), Fuel cell system and method for controlling stoppage of fuel cell system, Koichiro Furusawa and Kentaro Nagoshi, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,815,459 (20140826), Fuel cell stack with stoichiometry determination in individual cells, Hideyo Oomori, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP). U.S. 8,815,460 (20140826), Fuel cell system, Kota Manabe, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP). U.S. 8,815,461 (20140826), Solid electrolyte fuel cell system, Kazufumi Takeuchi, Hiromichi Miwa, Masaharu Hatano, Keiko Kushibiki, and Tatsuya Yaguchi, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,815,462 (20140826), Fuel cell power production system with an integrated hydrogen utilization device, Hossein Ghezel-Ayagh and Fred C Jahnke, FuelCell Energy, Inc. U.S. 8,815,463 (20140826), Fuel cell system and its control method, Koji Katano, Norio Yamagishi, and Akihisa Hotta, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP). U.S. 8,815,464 (20140826), Fuel cell, Hidetada Kojima, Masaaki Sakano, and Yasuhiro Watanabe, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,815,465 (20140826), Membrane electrode assembly for polymer electrolyte fuel cell and polymer electrolyte fuel cell, Naoki Mitsuta, Shintaro Tanaka, and Taku Eguchi, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,815,466 (20140826), Micro-scale energy conversion devices and methods, Shriram Ramanathan and Alexander C. Johnson, President and Fellows of Harvard College. U.S. 8,815,467 (20140826), Membrane electrode assembly and fuel cells with improved lifetime, Thomas Justus Schmidt, Oliver Gronwald, Detlef Ott, and Christoph Hartnig, BASF SE (DE). U.S. 8,815,468 (20140826), Layered electrodes and membrane electrode assemblies employing the same, Chi Paik, Robert F. Novak, Richard E. Soltis, and Mark S. Sulek, Ford Global Technologies, LLC. U.S. 8,815,469 (20140826), Electrolyte, and fuel cell, Li secondary battery, secondary battery and primary battery using the electrolyte, Akihiro Shinohara, Naoki Hasegawa, Koji Yamada, and Susumu Yamaguchi, Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Chuo Kenkyusho (JP). U.S. 8,815,470 (20140826), Fuel cell catalyst, membrane electrode assembly and solid polymer electrolyte fuel cell, Koshi Sekizawa and Haruyuki Nakanishi, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP). U.S. 8,815,471 (20140826), Method of manufacturing fuel cell separator, fuel cell separator and fuel cell, including gold plating, Kuroudo Maeda, Makoto Yoshida, Masahiro Mizuno, and Shinji Dewaki, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP), Aisin Takaoka Co., Ltd. (JP), and Nippon Chemical Denshi, Inc (JP). U.S. 8,816,465 (20140826), Energy conversion and storage device and mobile electronic device containing same, Donald S. Gardner and Cary L. Pint, Intel Corp.

U.S. 8,816,635 (20140826), Charging system using sodium level control in individual sealed anode tubes, Chandra Sekher Yerramalli, Badri Narayan Ramamurthi, Reza Sarrafi-Nour, Andrew Philip Shapiro, and Anil Raj Duggal, General Electric Co. U.S. 8,816,639 (20140826), Charge balancing topology, Cheng-Yi Lu and Erich H. Soendker, Aerojet Rocketdyne of DE, Inc. U.S. 8,816,645 (20140826), Integrated battery unit with cooling and protection expedients for electric vehicles, Blake E. Dickinson and Larry Hayashigawa, AeroVironment, Inc. U.S. 8,816,648 (20140826), Modulated, temperature-based multi-CC-CV charging technique for Li-ion/Li-polymer batteries, Ramesh C. Bhardwaj, Taisup Hwang, and Richard M. Mank, Apple Inc. U.S. 8,817,453 (20140826), Electrical energy storage device, Kyung-Sang Chun and Kwan-Gu Jeong, Nesscap Co., Ltd. (KR).

PRODUCT NEWSBitrode’s High Density IGBT Formation Charger In conjunction with its parent company, Sovema S.p.A, Bitrode announces the North American debut of their new High Density (HD) IGBT formation charger. Because the HD-CR/CD integrates smoothly into any facility’s power grid at significantly higher efficiency and power factors than previous models, this unit is one of the most financially and environmentally responsible capital investments available in the industry today. The HD-CR/CD operates at 16KHz and allows users to achieve efficiency and power factors of 90% and 99% respectively. This increase in efficiency is not only exceptional for new facilities or for new expansions, but it also offers a unique benefit to our customers with limited space but an increase in production needs. Bitrode has expanded its line of formation charges with the introduction of this IGBT based product line. The HD-CR/CD is a perfect complement to Bitrode’s existing line of formation equipment for automotive, traction and stationary applications. The HD-CR/CD is produced in several configurations and supports paralleled applications. For more information, contact Christie Williams, email: marketing@bitrode.com or phone: 1-626-343-6612 ext. 146, or visit www.bitrode.com.

Victron Energy Launches Battery Balancer Victron Energy now offers a new battery balancer. When multiple batteries are combined to create one large battery bank, the small differences between the batteries can cause problems that substantially shorten the life time.

The battery balancer prevents this by actively correcting the imbalance. Besides correcting, it is also equipped with an alarm function to give a warning in case of a large deviation. Batteries can be used in both series strings and series/parallel banks, be they 24V, 48V or sometimes higher voltages. When using a series string or series/parallel bank to create differing voltages and Ah ratings from individual 12V, you can end up with a variance in terminal voltages on each battery. This will cause the batteries to become unbalanced. Correcting and preventing battery imbalance with the Victron battery balancer is the answer to extending the lifetime of batteries. Visit www.victronenergy.com/battery-monitors/bmv700 for more information.

Navitas Ultanium™ Line of Lithium Batteries Navitas Systems LLC is offering a new product line of Lithium lead acid replacement batteries called Ultanium™. Ultanium highlights Navitas’ newest advancements, a lithium battery which is in the same size as popular military and commercial/industrial lead acid batteries,

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and is designed to work with existing lead acid chargers, offering a seamless drop-in replacement. Navitas Ultanium lithium battery replacements for lead acid batteries will start with three versions. The first batteries of this new product line are directed at high volume lead acid batteries in the military and commercial/industrial market segments. The 24V lithium 6T battery is targeted to the 24V electrical systems of military vehicles. The Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) is intended to replace a portion of the U.S. Army and Marine Corps’ Humvee fleets, and Lockheed Martin, AM General, and Oshkosh Defense are vying for the production contract. The JLTV is the first U.S. military vehicle to include the use of lithium 6T batteries in its specifications. For more information, visit www.navitassys.com.

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

Dispelling a Misconception About Mg-Ion Batteries One promising alternative for rechargeable automotive batteries could be based on a multivalent ion, such as magnesium (Mg). Whereas a Li-ion with a charge of +1 provides only a single electron for an electrical current, a Mg-ion has a charge of +2, In principle, Mg-ions can provide twice the electrical current of Li-ions with the same density. Mg-ion batteries would also be safer and less expensive than Li-ion batteries. However, the additional charge on a multivalent ion creates problems that have hampered the development of Mg-ion batteries. This situation may soon change thanks to new findings from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) as part of the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), a DOE Energy Innovation Hub. David Prendergast and Liwen Wan, scientists working in the Theory of Nanostructured Materials group at the Molecular Foundry, a DOE nanoscience research facility hosted by Berkeley Lab, ran a series of computer simulations that dispelled a long-standing misconception about Mg-ions in the electrolyte that transports the ions between a battery’s electrodes. “The catch for multivalent ions is that their increased charge draws more attention to them – they become surrounded in the battery’s electrolyte by other oppositely charged ions and solvent molecules – which can slow down their motion and create energetic penalties to exiting the electrolyte for the electrodes,” says Prendergast. “However, we found the problem may be less dire than is widely believed.” Based on X-ray absorption experiments with Mg-

containing solids, such as the salt magnesium chloride, and crystals derived from the class of working electrolytes used for Mg-based batteries (dichloro-complex solutions), it has been assumed that Mg-ions are surrounded by six nearest neighbors, which could be counter-ions, such as chlorides, or solvent molecules, in this case tetrahydrofuran. This bulky six-fold coordination sphere would make it difficult for Mg-ions to move through a battery, if it were also present in the liquid electrolyte. Running first-principles molecular dynamics simulations on the supercomputers at Berkeley Lab’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), as well as the Vulcan computer cluster system at the Molecular Foundry, Prendergast and Wan

found that Mg-ions are coordinated by only four nearest neighbors in the electrolyte. “This is good news for Mg-based batteries, since it means that there are less species to carry around and shed as the battery undergoes discharging or charging,” Prendergast says. “Our findings also suggest that the performance bottlenecks experienced with Mg-ion batteries to date may not be so much related to the electrolyte itself, but to what happens at the interface between the electrolyte and electodes as the Mg-ions shed their coordination spheres.”

Researching Why Rechargeable Batteries Fail Michigan Technological University researcher Reza Shahbazian-Yassar has made it his business to better map the ion’s long, strange trip – and perhaps make it smoother and easier. His ultimate aim: to make better Li-ion batteries, with more power and a longer life. Using transmission electron microscopy, Anmin Nie, a senior postdoctoral researcher in Shahbazian-Yassar’s research group, has recently documented what can happen to anodes as Li-ions work their way into them, and it’s not especially good. The research was recently published in the journal Nano Letters. “We call it atomic shuffling,” says Shahbazian-Yassar, the Richard and Elizabeth Henes Associate Professor in Nanotechnology. “The layered structure of the electrode changes as the lithium goes inside,

creating a sandwich structure: there is lots of localized expansion and contraction in the electrode crystals, which helps the lithium blaze a trail through the electrode.” The atomic shuffling not only helps explain how lithium ions move through the anode, in this case a promising new material called zinc antimonide. It also provides a clue as to why most anodes made of layered materials eventually fail. “We showed that the ions cause a lot of local stress and phase transitions,” Anmin says.

ELECTRIC VEHICLE NEWS

Tesla Unveils All-Wheel-Drive, Autopilot Tesla Motors Inc. of Hawthorne, California, unveiled an all-wheel-drive version of its Model S luxury electric car and an automated driving system designed to prevent accidents and even allow vehicles to park themselves. The new autopilot features rely on a combination of radar, sonar and cameras that are able to recognize stop signs, pedestrians and highway barriers. Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk says the self-driving features are already being installed in current production vehicles.

In December, Tesla could begin delivering its top-of-the-line model equipped with twin electric engines – one for front-wheel drive and another for the rear wheels. Such all-wheel-drive configurations allow for better road handling, improves efficiency and boosts power and acceleration. Other models with all-wheel-drive will follow next year. A technology package with autopilot adds about $4,250 to the price of a Model S.

General Motors Exec Confirms New All-Electric Car In Detroit, Michigan, General Motor’s global product chief Mark Reuss has confirmed that GM is looking to develop a third Chevrolet plug-in vehicle alongside the Volt range-extended electric car and all-electric Spark EV minicar.

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Meetings and Symposia

October 28-30 – EV2014VE Conference and Trade Show, Sheraton Wall Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Electric Mobility Canada’s 6th annual event is ideal for those supplying, operating or planning to market or operate battery, plug-in hybrid, hybrid or fuel cell electric vehicles in Canada. See some of the latest battery, hybrid, plug-in hybrid and fuel cell electric vehicles. Info: Visit http://emc-mec.ca/ev2014ve/en/.

November 10-13 – Fuel Cell Seminar & Energy Exposition, Westin Bonaventure, Los Angeles, California. Includes fuel cell development; commercialization, development technology and validation of all types of fuel cell applications; industry status and analysis; and fuels and renewable energy. Demonstrations and Ride-and-Drive are planned. Info: Visit www.fuelcellseminar.com.

November 11-12 – Lithium Battery Power, Capital Hilton Hotel, Washington, DC. Explores new ideas for battery design, battery trends and chemistries; novel materials and components to systems design and integration; electrode and electrolyte materials and technologies; Li-ion; lithium-air/lithium oxygen; lithium-sulphur; metal air; and EV to stationary applications. Info: Craig Wohlers, Knowledge Foundation, phone: 1-617-232-7400 ext. 205, or visit www.knowledgefoundation.com.

November 13-14 – Battery Safety Conference, Capital Hilton Hotel, Washington, DC. Includes impact of battery materials on safety; internal shorts, thermal runaway and stability, aging, and catastrophic failure; abuse tolerance and advanced testing procedures and protocols; cell research and safety, Li-based battery safety at systems level; and safety standards and regulatory issues. Info: Craig Wohlers, Knowledge Foundation, phone: 1-617-232-7400 ext. 205, or visit www.knowledgefoundation.com.

2015

January 26-29 – 2015 European Advanced Automotive Battery Conference, Rheingoldhalle, Mainz, Germany A European-focused advanced automotive and utility-stationary battery conference with international participation. New this year – a symposium on the emerging market for energy storage systems in utility applications and an OEM battery pavilion in the exhibit area. Info: Contact Jo Anna Mortensen, phone: 1-530-692-1040 ext. 102 or visit http://advancedautobat.com/

conferences/automotive-battery-conference-Europe-2015/ index.html.

February 16-19 – NAATBatt 2015 Annual Meeting and Conference, Wigwam Resort, Phoenix, Arizona. The title of the meeting is “Energy Storage: Electrifying the Future.” Focuses on innovation in the technology, manufacture and applications of electrochemical energy storage. Info: Visit www.naatbatt.org.

March 9-12 – 32nd International Battery Seminar & Exhibit, Broward County Convention Center, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Ideal for battery and small fuel cell manufacturers, users, OEMs, product designers, component, equipment and material suppliers, applications engineers, marketing analysts, patent attorneys, investors and those interested in the battery and small fuel cell industries. Info: Craig Wohlers, Knowledge Foundation, phone: 1-617-232-7400 ext. 205, or visit www.powersources.net.

April 27-29 – 7th Advanced Battery Power Conference, Eurogress Aachen, Aachen, Germany. Topics include Li-ion materials and improvements on properties; battery systems; production of battery systems and cells; stationary battery systems; and automotive and mobile applications. Also includes an exhibition. Info: Contact Haus der Technik E.V., phone: +49 20118031 or visit www.battery-power.eu.

May 3-6 – 127th Battery Council Convention + Power Mart Expo, Savannah Westin Hotel, Savannah, Georgia. Dedicated to advancing the lead-acid battery industry’s products and companies successfully into the future. Keep up with emerging technologies and changing regulations to do business more effectively in the global marketplace. At the expo, meet people and learn about the tools that can improve your products, streamline your processes and drive profit margins. Info: Battery Council International, 330 N. Wabash Ave., Suite 200, Chicago, IL 60611, phone: 1-312-644-6610, or visit www.batterycouncil.org.

May 3-6 – 28th International Electic Vehicle Symposium and Exhibition, KINTEX, Goyang, South Korea. Themed “e-Motional Technology for Humans,” EVS28 discusses the next steps needed to make the automobile industry “green” and “sustainable.” Drawing boards showcase innovations from low speed battery electric vehicles to fuel cell electric buses. Includes exhibition, Drive & Ride and technical visit. Info: Visit www.evs28.org.

May 12-16 – Battcon, Hilton Bonnet Creek, Orlando, Florida. Noncommercial, technical event for storage battery users from the power, telecom, UPS and other industries. End-users, engineers, battery and battery test equipment manufacturers, installers, and standards and safety experts gather to discuss storage battery innovations and solutions for existing systems; everyday applications; technical

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Currently, the Chevrolet Volt is one of the most popular plug-in cars on the market in the U.S. Sales totals to date, since the launch in December 2010, amount to just over 69,000 units. Two separate insiders close to GM’s future plans have told Automotive News that the car Reuss confirmed to investors an all-electric vehicle based on the current Sonic subcompact. Available as a four-door sedan or five-door hatchback, the Sonic is already one of GM’s most fuel-efficient gasoline cars and is also extremely popular with younger car buyers. Building a 200-mile electric car from the Sonic platform seems to fit, especially when you consider that both the Sonic and the Spark are built on the same GM Gamma II platform. A 200-mile electric subcompact would compete directly with a longer-range Nissan LEAF and Tesla Motors’ 2017 Model.

First Electric Nissan LEAF Taxi Arrives in Rome Nissan and the taxi company Unione Radiotaxi of Rome are making electric vehicle history in Italy. Two Nissan LEAF electric vehicles will operate in Rome as part of the Taxi 3570 fleet. The agreement includes the installation of a static Nissan CHAdeMO quick charging station in the HUB of Taxi 3570 at Fiumicino Airport. The CHAdeMO quick charger recharges vehicles from 0% to 80% in less than 30 minutes. The taxis are supported by an innovative mobile quick charging system, developed in conjunction with FCS Mobility – converting a Nissan NV400 into a mobile charging station. The unique van-based station has batteries on board to provide clean renewable power to the LEAF taxis in the city when necessary. With 130 lithium-iron-tetraphosphate batteries, holding 100kWh of renewable solar energy, the CHAdeMO compatible NV400 conversion

can charge one of the Taxi 3570’s LEAF from 30% to 80% in 15 minutes. Recharged using renewable sources, the NV400 conversion gives Taxi 3570 full freedom across Rome, where EV infrastructure is still in development. Nissan LEAF has been in use as taxis across Europe in Lisbon, Amsterdam, Newcastle and Barcelona. Taxi Electric in the Netherlands have already covered over 1.5 million km on its Nissan LEAF fleet, with zero mechanical breakdowns or flat battery situations.

SDG&E Hopes to Power the Electric Vehicle Market In California, an ambitious electric vehicle proposal that San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) had been trying to fast-track with California regulators has been sent on a detour instead. The California Public Utilities Commission (PUC), heeding calls for caution over who will finance and own charging stations in the state, combined its review of SDG&E’s $103 million electric vehicle-grid integration (VGI) application with the state’s Alternative-Fueled Vehicle (AFV) rulemaking process. The VGI pilot is an “innovative hourly time-variant rate and associated grid-beneficial charging infrastructure,” SDG&E says, calling for authorization to develop 5,500 charging stations targeting multi-family dwellings and workplaces between 2015 and 2025. The VGI pilot would require approximately $59 million in capital costs and $44 million in operations and maintenance over the life of the project. The proposal seeks new ways to open up the electric vehicle market, the utility says.

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May 24-26 – 227th ECS Meeting, Hilton Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. Sponsored by the Electrochemical Society, topics include batteries and energy storage; corrosion; electrodeposition for micro-and nano-battery materials; electrochemical engineering; fuel cells, electrolyzers and energy conversions; and durability in low temperature fuel cells. Info: The Electrochemical Society, 65 South Main St., Pennington, Building D, New Jersey, 08534-2839, phone: 1-609-737-1902, fax: 1-609-737-2743, e-mail: ecs@electrochem.org, or visit www.electrochem.org/meetings/biannual/227/

June 16-19 – International Advanced Automotive & Stationary Battery Conference, Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center, Detroit, Michigan. International forum for automakers and energy-storage system developers discuss the recent progress in advanced battery technology and its implementation in automotive, stationary, and industrial applications. New this year – a symposium on the emerging market for advanced batteries in utility, telecom and industrial applications, an OEM battery pavilion in the exhibit hall, and Ride & Drive with the latest xEVs! Info: Contact Jo Anna Mortensen, phone: 1-530-692-1040 ext. 102 or visit http://advancedautobat.com/ conferences/automotive-battery-conference-2015/ index.html.

June 30 - July 3 – 11th European SOFC Forum, Kultur- und Kongresszentrum, Lucerne, Switzerland. Includes hydrogen fuel cells (PEFC, PEM, AFC, PAFC), direct alcohol fuel cells (DMFC), microbial fuel cells, and hydrogen production, storage and infrastructure. Engineering, materials, systems, testing, applications and markets include catalysts and membranes; durability and mitigation; diagnostics and modeling; stack and system integration; and electrolysis techniques. Info: Visit www.efcf.com.

June 30 - July 3 – 11th European SOFC Forum, Kultur- und Kongresszentrum, Lucerne, Switzerland. Includes hydrogen fuel cells (PEFC, PEM, AFC, PAFC), direct alcohol fuel cells (DMFC), microbial fuel cells, and hydrogen production, storage and infrastructure. Engineering, materials, systems, testing, applications and markets include catalysts and membranes; durability and mitigation; diagnostics and modeling; stack and system integration; and electrolysis techniques. Info: Visit www.efcf.com.

August 5-6 – Battery Power, Hyatt Denver Tech Center, Denver, Colorado.

Includes new battery designs, improving power management, predicting battery life, regulations and standards, safety and transportation, battery authentication, charging technology, emerging chemistries and market trends. Info: Visit www.batterypoweronline.com.

September 8-11 – 16th Asian Battery Conference, Centara Grand & Bangkok Convention Centre , Bangkok, Thailand. Technical and scientific format also addresses the commercial and socio economic aspects of a growing, developing battery industry. Designed for battery industry executives, customers, marketers, academia, researchers, sales teams, reseller networks and suppliers. Info: Visit http://16abc.conferenceworks.com.au/ asian-battery-conference/about-the-conference/

October 11-16 – 228th ECS Meeting, Hyatt Regency Phoenix & Phoenix Convention Center, Phoenix, Arizona. Sponsored by the Electrochemical Society, topics include batteries and energy storage; corrosion; electrodeposition for micro-and nano-battery materials; electrochemical engineering; fuel cells, electrolyzers and energy conversions; and durability in low temperature fuel cells. Info: The Electrochemical Society, 65 South Main St., Pennington, Building D, New Jersey, 08534-2839, phone: 1-609-737-1902, fax: 1-609-737-2743, or visit www.electrochem.org.

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