United Silicon Carbide, Inc. — Department of Energy SBIR Phase II: 17b
United Silicon Carbide, Inc. — SBIR Phase II award from Department of Energy.
- Amount
- $1,008,437
- Agency
- Department of Energy
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase II
- Topic
- 17b
- Solicitation
- DE-FOA-0001490
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- NJ
- Period
- 2016-08-01 → 2018-07-31
Description
The U.S. represents the world’s leading market for electric vehicles and is producing some of the most advanced plugin electric vehicles (PEV’s) available today. PEV’s are gaining widespread adoption every year, where 58% of all PEV sales occurred in 2013 and it is expected that by 2023, there will be ~3.2 million PEV’s on the road in the U.S. alone. To increase adoption and maintain this leadership, the EV Everywhere initiative has set the goal to make electric vehicles as affordable as gasoline vehicles by 2022. To meet the goals of the EV Everywhere initiative, the primary efforts lie in reducing costs