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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

More often than not, the “recycling&# of NiMH or lithium-ion batteries involves shipping them off to places like China, where their fate is truly unknown. Chevron owns the NiMH patents and have not allowed EV size batts to be built. electric car race with i MiEV in Oregon? Now add much cheaper materials and NiMH is now obsolete.

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