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CPT developing 48-volt electric supercharger for micro-mild hybrids

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The higher-voltage variant will support moves by European vehicle manufacturers announced earlier this year to introduce 48 volt passenger vehicle power networks to help meet the requirement for lower fuel consumption and CO 2 emissions. The project is being supported and funded by the Advanced Lead Acid Battery Consortium (ALABC).

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Sandia researchers developing new family of metal-based ionic liquids for low-cost, efficient flow batteries

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The US and the world need significant breakthroughs in battery technology for renewable energy sources to replace today’s carbon-based energy systems. Anderson (2011) MetILs: A Family Of Metal Ionic Liquids For Redox Flow Batteries (Electrical Energy Storage Applications & Technologies (EESAT) Conference).

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

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Around the same time, however, General Motors and other automakers were in the process of decommissioning their battery EV fleets, the key component of V2G. AC Propulsion’s president, Tom Gage, explains the company’s vehicle-to-grid technology at a 2001 conference in Seattle.

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Slow start for charge of the electric cars - Times Online

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Electric cars remain dependent on the development of better,affordable batteries. The hybrid models available today use lead-acid ornickel-metal hydride batteries that are are proven, reliable, and fairlycheap, but their limited storage capacity means that the cars’ driving rangeusing electricity alone is short.

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

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Toyota Prius modders have already been adding larger batteries so the vehicle can run on battery power. when bio-batteries are invented (through DNA splicing) you can just swamp them into the EV1 plug and play style) cant do that crap with the Volt. when they were forced to put NIHM batteries in the range was 150 miles.

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