California Energy Commission awards SPARKZ $2.6M to support development of cobalt-free solid-state batteries

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By mmillikinOct 22, 2021, 4:00 am819 ptsInterestingTop
SPARKZ Inc., a battery startup with exclusive licenses to produce domestic cobalt-free lithium batteries (earlier post), has won a grant for $2.6 million from the California Energy Commission (CEC) to extend its development into solid-state batteries. CEC funded the full amount possible for the first phase of…

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