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The Advanced Power Sources Laboratory (APSL) provides comprehensive capabilities in power source research, engineering, characterization, evaluation, and testing. Supporting APSL is a staff of more than forty scientists, engineers, and technicians with backgrounds in chemistry, electrochemistry, metallurgy, chemical engineering, materials science, engineering, and physics. State-of-the-art equipment and software are available to perform a wide variety of research activities for almost any primary or rechargeable technology. Facilities (over 60,000 sq. ft.) include: wet chemistry laboratories analytical and diagnostic laboratories extensive dry room facilities (over 3,000 sq. ft.) environmental battery test facility prototyping facilities for lithium-ion batteries, lithium metal batteries, and electrochemical capacitors production/prototyping facilities for thermal batteries Battery Abuse Testing Laboratory (BATLab) access to comprehensive environmental testing, modeling, materials synthesis, analysis, and diagnostic equipment across the laboratory Eight business areas provide the focal points for APSL activities: thermal battery development and prototyping production and stockpile support for power sources lithium ambient-temperature batteries electric vehicle and hybrid electric vehicle batteries double-layer capacitors grid scale energy storage solutions power sources testing and evaluation advanced power source concepts