Articles tagged: Sakti3
Battery startup Sakti3 founder to step down from U-M faculty position
Posted: Jun 12, 2012Ann Marie Sastry, founder and chief executive officer of Ann Arbor-based battery startup Sakti3, announced that she will be ending her tenure as a professor at the University of Michigan. Sastry, the Arthur F. Thurnau ... Read more »
Ann Arbor battery maker Sakti3 requests $1.5M tax abatement
Posted: May 07, 2012City Council will hold a public hearing Monday on a $1.5 million tax abatement request for Ann Arbor-based startup battery firm Sakti3: $151,433 for real property improvements and $1,374,861 for new personal property. Read more »
Big Budget or No Budget - How to Maximize Your Real Estate Investment
Posted: Jan 15, 2010
2010 Detroit auto show preview: Liquidation risk down, but automakers still shaky
Posted: Jan 10, 2010The Detroit auto show is typically reserved for impressing media and generating buzz among car fans. But the 2010 show marks the first time in the history of the auto industry that two automakers need ... Read more »
Why the Detroit auto show matters to Ann Arbor
Posted: Jan 10, 2010For the Ann Arbor region, an attitude of indifference to the Detroit auto show is relatively common. Conventional wisdom has long held that the region - blessed with the University of Michigan and a vibrant ... Read more »
Capital, culture challenge Michigan's renewable energy development
Posted: Nov 20, 2009Michigan has some natural advantages that could help it become a significant player in the renewable energy sector, but challenges remain with the financing and public policy necessary to make it happen, according to a ... Read more »
Inc. magazine: Battery expert Ann Marie Sastry graces "Inc." magazine's November cover
Posted: Nov 10, 2009University of Michigan engineering professor Ann Marie Sastry, a global battery expert and CEO of Ann Arbor-based Sakti3, is featured on the cover of November's "Inc." magazine. The New York-based publication, which focuses on hot ... Read more »
Ann Arbor's electric vehicle intelligence is critical to development of battery industry
Posted: Oct 04, 2009The gradual evolution of Michigan’s emerging battery industry is generating demand for electric vehicle intelligence.That’s why the Ann Arbor region’s growing status as the intelligence center of Michigan’s electric vehicle battery industry is vital to ... Read more »
Local teens try out for MTV's "Made"
Posted: Sep 22, 2009A baseball player. A fire performer. A female drag racer. About 30 teens, with these aspirations and others, showed up in Ypsilanti High School’s auditorium on Tuesday afternoon to apply for a spot on the ... Read more »
Alternative energy investor's Michigan connections could prove vital
Posted: Sep 01, 2009The role of risk takers in boosting Michigan’s entrepreneurial economy cannot be understated. Without risk, our economic turnaround efforts could stagnate or falter. Thus why outside investors such as renowned clean tech venture capitalist Vinod ... Read more »
Ann Arbor reaps windfall of investment for battery technologies
Posted: Aug 12, 2009The auto industry’s rapid embrace of lithium-ion batteries for future electric vehicles is fueling an oasis of investment for Ann Arbor in the midst of the economic desert that’s drying opportunity in Michigan. Ann Arbor’s ... Read more »
Nathan Bomey: Battery workforce training crucial to economic transition
Posted: Aug 11, 2009What does a job posting for a battery production specialist look like? What skills do you need to work in an advanced manufacturing facility where lithium cells are converted into battery packs for electric vehicles? ... Read more »
Ann Arbor's vehicle battery sector awaits Department of Energy grants announcement
Posted: Aug 04, 2009Michigan’s budding vehicle battery industry, charged by several companies in the Ann Arbor region, is anxiously awaiting the federal government’s battery grants announcement Wednesday at NextEnergy in Detroit. The U.S. Department of Energy is expected ... Read more »
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