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UK Collaboration Develops Plug-in Hybrid Retrofit for Conventional Vehicles

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The Affordable Add-on Zero Emissions Vehicle ( ADDZEV ) technology demonstrates how it may be possible to convert segment of the existing the UK vehicle fleet into plug-in hybrid vehicles using a through-the-road approach. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.). The ADDZEV consortium includes: Cranfield University. The approximately 4.8

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Axion supplying PbC batteries to Norfolk Southern for all-battery switcher and working on line-haul hybrid locomotives; micro-hybrid and stationary expansion

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These electrode assemblies are then sandwiched together with conventional separators and positive electrodes to make the battery, which is filled with an acid electrolyte, sealed and connected in series to the other cells. Micro-hybrid testing against VRLA. PbC battery. Click to enlarge. —Tom Granville. Source: Axion. Stationary.

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