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Samsung's foray into electric vehicles!

Battery will be the best opportunity for technology innovation in the field, anyone who can figure out a way to pack more energy into a smaller space, then surely it's "big money" will be bright.

Seeo is such a company, its development of rechargeable lithium-ion battery, in 2007, was born at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, now headquartered in Hayward, California (Hayward), e recently announced it had secured a $ 17 million round of financing.

The investors include Seeo has been cast before the GSR Ventures and Khosla Ventures, but this is not important, important is the lead investor is Samsung. In view of the status of Samsung consumer electronics giant in the field of, it certainly interested to see better batteries will come to the fore.

Samsung Seeo voted not to mention wealthy willful, actually it would have in the United States and Korea, patented technology that can be used for electric cars, which included the production of tyres, motor vehicles, and information sharing in-vehicle electronics. Samsung had previously said they would not directly into the field of electric vehicles, but this time investment Seeo take practical action to overturn a previous commitment. And the fact that Samsung SDI, Samsung's affiliates, as early as 2009, and BMW began to engage in lithium-ion battery business and recently also announced that the two companies want to expand trade, especially BMW and BMW I8 i3, the two models.

Seeo, this round of financing will be used to speed up the DryLyte of the commercialization of an advanced ion-polymer battery, DryLyte allows motion to enhance the energy density of electrolytes, especially for electric cars. Seeo current batteries (not commercial) can be 350Wh/Kg (Watt-hour per kilogram), the energy density to run while Seeo's next goal will be to reach 400Wh/Kg, the figure is twice the level of most electric cars.

But then you should also consider security issues, which is where the Seeo struggling: Seeo manufacturing batteries, nonvolatile, not flammable solid polymer electrolyte can be used in a high temperature environment, therefore, Seeo is seeking to allow them to replace standard, flammable liquid electrolyte.

Early Seeo by United States Department of energy-sponsored research and development, had also been after 3 rounds of financing, amounted to us $ 40.6 million. It is noteworthy that in 2011, $ 15 million financing, Google, Google.org is one of the investors.