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Tier 1 HELLA evaluating PowerGenix NiZn batteries for 48V mild hybrid vehicles

Green Car Congress

The market for micro hybrid and mild hybrid vehicles is on track to grow nearly eightfold to 39 million vehicles in 2017, driving a $6.9-billion billion market for energy storage devices, according to a 2012 Lux Research report on micro and mild hybrids. Nickel-zinc batteries are chemically very similar to nickel-cadmium, NiCd.