The Power of Balance
ALP’s first goal is providing advanced energy storage solutions for ground transportation. For the past century, the energy stored in gasoline and diesel oil has made widespread transportation possible. But environmental harm on a global scale, along with fluctuating prices and dwindling availability, are fueling a worldwide search for cleaner, more secure alternatives.
Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEVs), which use traditional engines augmented by electric power, significantly reduce fuel consumption, as well as greenhouse gas and ground-level emissions. Today’s HEVs have been designed around expensive and heavy Nickel Metal Hydride (NiMH) battery technology. The coming transition to Lithium Ion cells reduces the battery size and weight to a minimum. Lithium Ion technology also offers new possibilities to further reduce fossil fuel consumption and emissions by taking advantage of electric energy from the grid. New plug-in hybrids will become the next step in clean power train evolution and will go even farther to displace fossil fuels with renewable electrical energy.
In the long term, alternative technologies like all-electric vehicles, or vehicles powered by hydrogen fuel cells may be able to completely eliminate the burning of fossil fuels for ground transportation.
In all cases, electrical energy storage with sophisticated control software is required, and ALP is ahead of the charge
to provide it.
