Getting charged up: San Diego companies receive funding for developing better EV batteries

The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded nearly $6 million in grants to a pair of San Diego companies that are working to make electric vehicle batteries run longer, charge faster and cost less. South 8 Technologies, which is poised to come out with batteries that use a novel liquefied gas electrolyte technology, received $3.15 million while Tyfast Energy out of La Jolla, makers of batteries with extended life cycles, received $2.82 million.The companies were two of 12 entities from the private sector, national laboratories and universities across the country who collectively received $42 million from the federal government’s Electric Vehicles for American Low-Carbon Living program that seeks to bolster the domestic supply chain for advanced batteries. “We’re really trying to push the envelope here, as we should in the U.S. in this innovation ecosystem that we have to try to…

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