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Toyota to Stay with NiMH for Mass-Market Hybrids
Toyota last month ended road tests of 126 Priuses in the US, Japan and Europe that began in 2006, company spokeswoman Jana Hartline said in an interview. Bloomberg. Toyota Motor Corporation will continue to use NimH packs for most of its hybrid vehicles after three years of testing Priuses fitted with Li-ion packs.
Green Car Congress - Monday, September 14, 2009
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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity
Ford Chairman and CEO Bill Ford at 2006 Shareholders Meeting ) GM top 12/31/07 [GM Vice Chairman Bob] Lutz, 75, is undergoing a green conversion in the twilight of his career. About CalCars Plug-In Hybrids FAQ How to Get a PHEV Where PHEVs are Carmakers Say. todays answer is "Yes -- but not yet." Establishing dealer network. Space Up! market.
www.calcars.org - Tuesday, April 21, 2009
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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid
We will have similar solutions available for better (but more expensive) nickel-metal hydride or lithium-ion batteries.) CalCars converted Priuses into a PRIUS+ at the 2006 and 2007 Maker Faire s. In 2006, CalCars worked on a project with Electro Energy, Inc. They are early adopters, buying "Version 1.0"
www.calcars.org - Tuesday, April 21, 2009
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  • Popular Mechanics highlights Prius conversion from EDrive and EAA-PHEV
    EDrive takes a regular hybrid like a Toyota Prius, replaces the nickel-metal-hydride battery with a higher-capacity lithium-ion battery, and adds a new power control computer. It's great to be reaching both the Popular Science audience and Popular Mechanics in their July issues.
    CalCars News - PHEV News - Tuesday, June 20, 2006
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  • Brad Berman/HybridCars.com's Lithium Battery Report
    34; The current crop of hybrid cars, like the Toyota Prius and the Honda Civic Hybrid, use a combination of gasoline and nickel metal hydride (NiMH) batteries. Battery formulas with nickel, while more powerful than lead acid, have not provided the breakthrough and the long-term cost benefits that battery engineers had hoped.
    CalCars News - PHEV News - Friday, January 6, 2006
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  • 2004 and 2006 Interviews with Dave Hermance
    Today's nickel metal hydride battery [the type used in all hybrids] is optimized for peak power rather than peak energy. Nickel worked really well for us. Nickel is a commodity that has gone up in price over the last five years, and we can't take the cost increase if we stay with nickel. He joined G.M.
    CalCars News - PHEV News - Friday, December 1, 2006
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  • Forbes Mag. asks about batteries and PHEVs
    Hybrid vehicles like Toyota's Prius, which are propelled by both gasoline and electric motors, now use nickel metal hydride batteries to store electricity. And nickel's price has grown from $2 a pound to $13 over the past five years, making expensive hybrid vehicles more so. FORBES Magazine. OutFront. Remember The Pinto.
    CalCars News - PHEV News - Sunday, October 1, 2006
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  • Forbes Mag. asks about batteries and PHEVs
    Hybrid vehicles like Toyota's Prius, which are propelled by both gasoline and electric motors, now use nickel metal hydride batteries to store electricity. And nickel's price has grown from $2 a pound to $13 over the past five years, making expensive hybrid vehicles more so. FORBES Magazine. OutFront. Remember The Pinto.
    CalCars News - PHEV News - Sunday, October 1, 2006
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  • Automotive News Weekly: Bush Electrifies Plug-In Fans
    Automotive News / March 20, 2006 - 6:00 am Bush electrifies plug-in fans President scoops Johnson Controls' plans for batteries Harry Stoffer. The company is getting into the hybrid business, now dominated by suppliers of nickel-metal hydride batteries, by making lithium ion batteries. link]. Who says? President Bush.
    CalCars News - PHEV News - Monday, March 20, 2006
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  • Firefly Lead Acid: More Possible PHEV Batteries
    Earns the 2006 Frost & Sullivan Technology Innovation Award for its Disruptive Battery Technologies Date Published: 2 May 2006. April 26, 2006 - Frost & Sullivan selected Firefly Energy, Inc. We chose ordinary lead-acid (PbA) batteries for our PRIUS+ conversion because we could use them to prove what was possible. link].
    CalCars News - PHEV News - Wednesday, May 3, 2006
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  • EVWorld story & interview about DC trip
    link] Mister Kramer Goes to Washington By Bill Moore, EV World editor/publisher May 26, 2006 Exclusive MP3 interview with California Cars Initiative founder Felix Kramer. ten year track record, but that's certainly not the case with nickel metal hydride. PHOTO CAPTION: Felix Kramer (front right seat) with Sen.
    CalCars News - PHEV News - Saturday, May 27, 2006
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  • Forbes: The Frankenstein Hybrid
    Most hybrids use nickel-metal-hydride batteries, which last for many years--perhaps as long as the car. This requires a bigger battery pack and, preferably, a lithium-ion battery, which packs more power per pound than nickel metal hydride. The article is more moderate than the headline. But not now.
    CalCars News - PHEV News - Tuesday, May 30, 2006
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  • Recent Ford News re PHEVs: Golightly / Watson / Miller
    Ford hybrid manager's goal: Boosting fuel economy Q&A by Richard Truett, Automotive News | May 22, 2006. Is it a foregone conclusion that lithium-ion batteries will replace nickel-metal hydride batteries someday? We remain hopeful that the company will agree to our request that it grant CalCars and Prof. Dear Mr.
    CalCars News - PHEV News - Wednesday, May 24, 2006
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