Barker's Battery Blog: ATVM Loan Programs: Decisions Imminent?

Thursday 27 August 2009

ATVM Loan Programs: Decisions Imminent?

August 27, 2009: XP Vehicles, Inc., a California-based electric car maker was notified by the U.S. Department of Energy (US-DOE) that their Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing (ATVM) loan program application had been rejected.

Based on this outcome it appears the rest of the decisions from the US-DOE on the successful recipients of the ATVM Loan Programs are now imminent. These decisions are bound to have a profound and lasting effect on the future success of the advanced Li-ion battery industry in the US. Several US battery companies (for example, A123 Systems, Valence Technology, AltairNano and others) have applied for ATVM Loans in order to fund the large scale manufacturing of large format Li-ion batteries in the US.

9 comments:

KC27 August 2009 at 22:28
Jerry,
Thanks for your great work!

Could you comment on your thoughts of companies who do not get the stimulus money? One company that comes to mind is Valence Tech. and another is XP energy (which was contacted last night by the DOE with a "no").
Do you think the DOE has the ability to pick the winners? Maybe the answer is all the small players that figure it out get bought by the big players.
My understanding on BYDDF.PK is that Warren Buffett's right hand man is ready to invest more money with them to support the U.S. launch, any thoughts?
Any thoughts on the Nissan Leaf?

Thanks!
Ken
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Jerry Barker11 September 2009 at 20:29
Ken-

Good points. I really worry about the negative impact on the companies that do not benefit from the stimulus money (i.e. the DOE grants). As you say, Valence is a prime example. It is in direct competition with other phosphate manufacturers such as A123 Systems - and this result puts it a big disadvantage.

I think the DOE has picked its 'winners' = A123, JC, SAFT etc. The others get nothing. The same will probably happen with the stimulus loans.

We have to watch BYD carefully. Soon it will probably be the biggest Li-ion phosphate volume producer.

Jerry
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Jerry Barker is currently co-founder and Chief Scientist of Faradion Limited, a UK-based start-up company specializing in next generation Na-ion battery technology. The company has state-of-the-art R&D labs and prototype manufacturing facilities in the UK. Check out the company website here:

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In May 2019, Jerry was appointed Honorary Professor within the School of Chemistry at the University of St. Andrews.

Jerry Barker also runs an independent technology consultant, specializing in the energy storage sector. He may be contacted here:

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Jerry has worked in the UK, Denmark and the US and has managed materials research labs in Europe and North America. He is currently located in the UK where he has consulted for, and advised a number of battery R&D companies, varying in size from small university startup to global multinational. He has also consulted and advised on solar photovoltaics (PV) where he is widely regarded as a world expert on the electrodeposition of thin film semiconductors for PV and other applications. In his early career Jerry spent time at UCSB where he collaborated with the Nobel prize winners Alan Heeger and Hideki Shirakawa on alkali metal doped polyacetylene.

Jerry has published extensively in the energy storage area (h-index = 56, total number of citations >11,000) and is a named inventor on more than 120 issued US patents. He has appeared as a patent litigation expert witness in Europe and in North America. He has also acted as the due diligence technical expert for a number of VC-backed startup companies. Additional information on Jerry's background may be found at the website:

http://www.jerrybarker.co.uk/

Jerry currently acts as an Expert Panel member for the UK's Faraday Institution and as a Board Member of the UK LiBATT consortium.

The articles and comments posted on this blog will simply be Jerry's own personal opinions. Much of the emphasis will be placed on the recent news stories involving Energy Storage Systems - especially Lithium metal anode, Lithium-ion and Sodium-ion Batteries - and Thin-film Photovoltaics.

Please feel free to add useful comments and suggestions - these will help to keep the discussions alive. I will try to respond to these postings as they are made.

Jerry