Advanced Power Sources Laboratory

The Advanced Power Sources Laboratory (APSL) provides comprehensive capabilities in power source research, engineering, characterization, evaluation, and testing. Supporting APSL is a staff of more than forty scientists, engineers, and technicians with backgrounds in chemistry, electrochemistry, metallurgy, chemical engineering, materials science, engineering, and physics.

State-of-the-art equipment and software are available to perform a wide variety of research activities for almost any primary or rechargeable technology. Facilities (over 60,000 sq. ft.) include:

• wet chemistry laboratories
• analytical and diagnostic laboratories
• extensive dry room facilities (over 3,000 sq. ft.)
• environmental battery test facility
• prototyping facilities for lithium-ion batteries, lithium metal batteries, and electrochemical capacitors
• production/prototyping facilities for thermal batteries
• Battery Abuse Testing Laboratory (BATLab)
• access to comprehensive environmental testing, modeling, materials synthesis, analysis, and diagnostic equipment across the laboratory

Eight business areas provide the focal points for APSL activities:

• thermal battery development and prototyping
• production and stockpile support for power sources
• lithium ambient-temperature batteries
• electric vehicle and hybrid electric vehicle batteries
• double-layer capacitors
• grid scale energy storage solutions
• power sources testing and evaluation
• advanced power source concepts