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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

at least, the recycling infrastructure for the well-established lead-acid batteries is robust. lead-acid batteries have a far better recycling rate than even aluminum bottles — over 90% of lead-acid batteries are recycled. None of the new electric cars are planning to use old-tech lead acid batteries.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

80 miles was the range of the EV1 with Lead Acid batteries, that GM tried to use because they wanted the project to fail. It had two seats, it used lead-acid batteries (because of cost and reliability, not because of your stupid pet conspiracy theory) until the very end, and had an impractically short range.

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