Last month, Google.org’s director for climate change and energy initiatives, Dan Reicher, told us that Google would be making investments in green cars this summer through it’s plug-in hybrid program, RechargeIT. Well, here it is: Austin-based lithium ion battery start ActaCell said on Tuesday that it had raised $5.8 million in a Series A round led by DFJ Mercury and included Google.org’s RechargeIT program, Applied Ventures (the VC arm of Applied Materials), and Good Energies.

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