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Profile: Li-ion Provider Compact Power, Inc. Focusing on the Automotive and Vehicle Markets

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He served as the chief engineer for the Ford Escape Hybrid from 1998 to 2003 and holds 12 patents. Manganese is also abundant and low-cost and with the use of proprietary additives, CPI believes a calendar life of more than 15 years is achievable within a vehicle with proper design and operation. Earlier post.).

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

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Wang entered the automobile business in 2003 by buying a Chinese state-owned car company that was all but defunct. BYD makes about 80% of Motorolas RAZR handsets, as well as batteries for iPods and iPhones and low-cost computers, including the model distributed by Nicholas Negropontes One Laptop per Child nonprofit based in Cambridge, Mass.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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Establishing dealer network. 2010 Prius designed to be manufactured with NiMH or Lithium batteries. The F6 DM uses ferrous batteries, with no lithium content, that BYD says are high-energy density and low cost. When Lutz first proposed creating an electric car in 2003, the idea "bombed" inside GM, he says. "I

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