Opportunity Information: Apply for DE FOA 0001807
This notice is not a funding announcement you can apply to; it is an advance heads-up from the U.S. Department of Energy that a future competitive Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is planned. Specifically, the Department of Energy, through the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) and its Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO), signaled its intent to release an FOA focused on batteries and electrification technologies that make "extreme fast charging" possible. The notice repeatedly emphasizes that no applications will be accepted under this posting and that potential applicants should not submit questions or otherwise respond to the notice itself. Instead, organizations interested in competing are expected to use the time to shape project concepts, identify partners, and gather technical and cost data so they are ready once the actual FOA is published.
The opportunity is identified as "Notice of Intent to Issue Funding Opportunity Announcement entitled FY 2017 Vehicle Technologies Office Batteries and Electrification to Enable Extreme Fast Charging Funding Opportunity Announcement," with the reference number DE-FOA-0001807. It was created on September 6, 2017, and it points to a forthcoming FOA (not this notice) as the vehicle for accepting applications. The anticipated posting timeframe for the real FOA was October 2017, and the notice directs applicants to watch for it on the EERE Exchange website, which is DOE's standard platform for EERE competitive funding opportunities.
In terms of the funding structure DOE planned to use, the notice indicates the expected instrument type would be a cooperative agreement. That is an important detail because cooperative agreements typically involve substantial federal involvement during the project period compared with a standard grant, such as more active DOE technical collaboration, milestone oversight, and project management engagement. The activity category is listed broadly as "Energy," and the CFDA number is 81.086, which corresponds to DOE energy-related financial assistance programs. While the notice does not lay out specific technical topic areas or evaluation criteria, the title and framing make clear the core focus: advancing battery and electrification solutions that can enable very high power, very rapid charging for electric vehicles, an area that usually includes challenges like battery materials and cell design, thermal management, charging protocols, power electronics interfaces, charging infrastructure compatibility, durability under high C-rate operation, and overall system safety and reliability.
Eligibility is described as "unrestricted," meaning it is open to any type of entity as a general matter, subject to any additional eligibility constraints that would be spelled out in the actual FOA text when released. In practice, DOE VTO FOAs commonly attract applications from a wide mix of universities, national laboratories, for-profit companies (including startups and established automotive suppliers), nonprofits, and state or local entities, often organized into multi-partner teams. However, because this posting is only a notice of intent, the final eligibility requirements, cost share expectations, and any limitations (for example, restrictions on foreign ownership, limits on number of submissions, or requirements for teaming arrangements) would only be confirmed once DE-FOA-0001808 (the referenced forthcoming announcement) appeared.
The notice includes high-level expectations about the scale of funding DOE anticipated. It lists an award ceiling of $5,000,000 per award and an expected number of awards of 13. These figures suggest DOE was planning multiple competitively selected projects, potentially spanning a range of technical approaches within the extreme fast charging theme. At the notice stage, no total program budget is provided and no application deadline is relevant because the notice itself does not accept applications. The "Original Closing Date" field essentially reiterates that this is only a notice of intent and that applications will not be accepted until the actual FOA is issued.
The practical takeaway is that this posting served as an early planning signal to the research, development, and commercialization community. Anyone interested would have been expected to start preparing by clarifying a technical concept aligned with extreme fast charging, assembling a project team and roles, identifying facilities and test capabilities, mapping out milestones and measurable performance targets, and preparing the business and commercialization rationale that DOE typically expects for vehicle technology development efforts. The next step, according to the notice, was to monitor EERE Exchange for the FOA release in October 2017, where full details such as topic areas, submission requirements, deadlines, merit review criteria, cost share, and reporting expectations would be provided.Apply for DE FOA 0001807
- The Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory in the energy sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Notice of Intent to Issue Funding Opportunity Announcement entitled FY 2017 Vehicle Technologies Office Batteries and Electrification to Enable Extreme Fast Charging Funding Opportunity Announcement" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 81.086.
- This funding opportunity was created on Sep 06, 2017.
- Applicants must submit their applications by This is a Notice of Intent to issue Funding Opportunity Announcement DE-FOA-0001808. Applications will not be accepted for the Notice of Intent.. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $5,000,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 13 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility.
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