 One of the biggest challenges we are facing nowadays is how to enable more electrical cars on the road and how do we integrate more solar and wind electricity into the electrical grid. The goals of Storage X Initiative at Stanford University is to develop the fundamental and apply science to address these challenges. We will organize our talented faculty and students together into a team across many disciplines to work on those big challenges. We will look into electricity storage such as battery technology as well as thermal storage and whatever makes sense which can bring the cost down having enough cycle life. This is an opportunity for us to work with industry to bridge the gap between fundamental applied research and the industry commercialization. We can imagine the outcome of this initiative is not only to develop the science and technologies but at the same time we will develop young generation of students they can go out to do important work to impact the society.