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Toyota shoots for battery cells with 932 miles of range

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” Toyota focuses on localization in China & the US to boost EV production The Japanese automaker aims to introduce an industry-changing battery before 2030 through its investments in new energy density, weight reduction, and development in aerodynamics. The Japanese automaker plans to sell 1.5 million BEV units by 2026.

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Ford, University of Michigan open $8M battery lab focused on test production of advanced technologies

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This is sorely needed, and no one else in the auto industry has anything like it. Ford and other potential industrial partners have both a defined short-term need as well as the longer term research need for energy storage materials and systems. —Ted Miller, Ford’s manager of battery research.

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CalCars and PHEVs Frequently Asked Questions

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Toyotas Nickel-Metal Hydride batteries are considered "non-hazardous waste" [See "high voltage electrical systems" ]. Objections have come from those who say that this name puts advocates on the defensive to auto industry views that plugging in is bad (Ads for hybrids emphasize that "you dont have to plug it in.").

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

By partnering with these two industries. This is different from anything Ive ever seen in my 40 years in the automobile industry." ( Detroit Free Press ). Cischke, Ford senior vice president for sustainability, environment and safety engineering. "By Well certainly be careful not to announce anything that we cannot deliver."

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Electric Car Manufacturers Inspire New Paradigms -- Seeking Alpha

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Think is also working closely with the Brussel based Eurelectric , the European union of electricity industry. Today we could be using lead-acid EVs, lead-carbon-acid EVs, or nickel metal hydride or lithium-ion hybrids. Think has established a U.S. headquarters and will begin sales in the U.S. before 2010.