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Home Cooking a Batch of Batteries

Electric Cars are for Girls

What prompts this question is the suppression of NiMH cobasys patent by Chevron. Can a battery be better home made than bought? Perhaps if the ingredients

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Toward a Plug-in Hybrid Saturn Vue

Plugs and Cars

A partnership of Cobasys (Chevron/ECD) and A123 got the second. While the future may belong to Lithium, a case can easily be made for the early roll-0ut of NiMH plug-ins. If the automakers felt compelled by the market or the government or a petroleum crisis to bring plug-in cars to showrooms asap, NiMH it would be.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Even so, most next gen EV manufacturers are focused on lithium ion (and to a lesser extent NiMH) as the core technology to power their cars. 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.

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