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Pike Research forecasts accelerating hybrid locomotive sales from 2015-2020

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General Electric (GE) has built a plant to manufacture sodium metal halide batteries ( earlier post ), and is showing a prototype road locomotive using those batteries that it intends to bring to market. Pike estimates sales growth in China will be strong (a CAGR of 22.2% Advanced lead acid batteries will make inroads as well.

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The EV Transition Explained: Battery Challenges

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Mining the raw materials, of course, assumes that there is sufficient refining capability to process them, which outside of China , is limited. One possible solution is to move away from lithium-ion batteries and nickel-metal hydrides batteries to other battery chemistries such as. Herb Simon.

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Electric Car Manufacturers Inspire New Paradigms -- Seeking Alpha

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The electric car features three different battery options, two different Lithium-based (LI) systems – A123Systems and Enerdel as well as a Sodium-Nickel battery Zebra (Mes-Dea). Today we could be using lead-acid EVs, lead-carbon-acid EVs, or nickel metal hydride or lithium-ion hybrids.