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Ener1 To Supply Li-ion Packs to Hyundai Heavy for Electric Buses; Complete Turnkey Solutions Agreement with Toro

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Hyundai Heavy Industries in Korea will receive Li-ion battery packs for electric buses; the packs are similar configurations as packs currently in operation in California with AC Transit. Ener1 will provide Toro with a complete turnkey solution to create a battery-powered mower using the hard carbon mixed oxide, 17.5

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PNNL study outlines requirements for grid storage, reviews four electrochemical energy storage systems: vanadium redox flow, Na-beta, Li-ion and lead-carbon

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The percentages are higher in Europe and Japan, at 10% and 15%, respectively, largely because of favorable economics and government policies.) The future grid will face significant challenges by providing clean power from intermittent resources to a much more dynamic load.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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The advanced technology vehicle would have an extended driving range on battery power alone and would also have a diesel or gasoline engine that could power the car when the battery was low. On the other side are two allied car makers, Frances Renault SA and Japans Nissan Motor Co., 11/11/06 General Motors Corp.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

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He started BYD with a modest goal: to edge in on the Japanese-dominated battery business. "Importing batteries from Japan was very expensive," Wang says. " He studied Sony and Sanyo patents and took apart batteries to understand how they were made, a "process that involved much trial and error," he says.

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Slow start for charge of the electric cars - Times Online

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Nissan has a memorandum of understanding with One North East, the regionaldevelopment agency, to potentially use its Sunderland plant to produceelectric vehicles, but its first cars will all come from Japan. Also, Firefly batteries now being produced use lead foam in lead-acid configuration, cutting their weight almost in half.