Johnson Controls charges up its automotive battery research

Posted on 17 Dec 2014 by Tim Brown

Renewable energy expert Deyang Qu has been named as the Johnson Controls Endowed Professor in Energy Storage Research, a collaborative appointment between the company, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) and the Wisconsin Energy Institute (WEI).

The appointment, based at UW-Milwaukee’s College of Engineering and Applied Science and affiliated with WEI, is part of a collaboration among Johnson Controls, one of the world’s largest suppliers of automotive batteries, and two of the state’s largest public research universities. The industry-academic partnership aims to advance research, development and commercialization of energy storage technologies.…

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