2005 Kits Nickel Metal Hydride NiMH 
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
2010 Prius designed to be manufactured with NiMH or Lithium batteries. Beginning in 2005, we excerpted individual statements of intentions by carmakers, but by the start of 2008, the number of comments became too numerous for us to track. The Omori factory currently produces NiMH cells.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
There are companies that are reinventing the lead-acid battery to make it more competitive with lithium-ion and nickel metal hydride in terms of storage capacity versus weight, durability, and cold weather performance. Chevron owns the NiMH patents and have not allowed EV size batts to be built. In the U.S.
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