Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Environmental costs are often not shown on financial statements because the bearers of such costs can be either particular individuals or society at large, are often both non-monetary and problematic to quantify for comparison with monetary values.

Climate Change 310

Climate Change Water Climate Global 310

Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2009

Valence’s Saphion technology, commercially introduced in 2002, refers to the processes and materials used in developing the novel patented lithium iron magnesium phosphate cathode materials. By comparison, nickel-based Li-ion systems have a cathode voltage of 3.8V. The USCAR/DOE long term goal is 5,000 cycles. for Valence cells).

Li-ion 150

Li-ion Batteries Battery 2008 150

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

That way you have a fair basis of comparison, you know, apples to apples and all that jazz. I had surmised this in my 2002 car design thesis [link] even before anyone was talking about plug in series hybrids. Honda has probably sold more Civics in a year than the combined total of all 18 of those GM models.

Volt 41

Volt GM Chevrolet EV1 41