1. Worldwide demand Electrical Energy Storage Quarillion BTU’s Leading the way for a cleaner, sustainable environment

3. Nearly 100% of energy consumed in the US transportation sector is from petroleum, more than 60% of which is imported

4. Limited penetration of renewables on the grid due to difficulty in dispatching intermittent resources like wind and solarUS transportation sector 27 Quadrillion BTU’s US electric grid 38 Quadrillion BTU’s Worldwide demand Natural Gas Quadrillion BTU’s Petroleum (domestic) Nuclear Petroleum (imports) Coal Renewables

6. Integrated systems that are cost effective, scalable, and safe

7. Accelerated electrification of the transportation sector

9. Transportation: new high-capacity, high-voltage materials and designs to extend pure EV range from <100 to > 300 miles

10. Grid:novel electrolytes, robust flow battery and flywheel designs to reduce installed storage costs to $100/kWh with >90% round-trip efficiency and 10-year life

12. Innovative concepts and materials that can be licensed and commercialized

13. Faculty assessments of relevant breakthroughs in science/engineering

14. World-class facilities for synthesis, characterization, and simulation

15. Ability to engineer the first of something

16. Opportunity to foster relationships with students while earning their degrees

18. Developed all leading cathodes for lithium-ion batteries

19. Set the standards in fly-wheel technology

20. Vast breadth and depth in electrochemical energy technologies

21. Unique state-of-the-art facilities

22. Leverage with existing funding