Revenge of the Electric Car
MARCH 9, 2009
Along with Tedd Abramson’s Zero Truck in San Diego and Smith Trucks in London, we now have EVI (I keep wanting to write that as EV1:~). The trucks can be supplied with lithium phosphate batteries (right) from Valence Technologies, or lead-acid batteries from Trojan. Lead-acid batteries would provide less range.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
Lithium, nickel metal hydrides and even advanced lead acid products are now capable of great energy storage and have strong recycle lives. The first step was the hybrid, which proved to the world that electric power can reduce gas consumption. We were successful with this before – remember the EV1?)
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
The 2011 start date has been chosen to coincide with theexpected introduction of a wider variety of electric and plug-in hybrid carsin Britain. How far hybrids will be encouraged in the new government initiative remains tobe seen. Electric cars remain dependent on the development of better,affordable batteries.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
It also offers eight hybrid models. Posted by: AJ | Apr 13, 2009 3:24:59 PM Dont buy the hype, version 1 was the EV1 which GM released in 1996. Posted by: J-Bob | Apr 13, 2009 4:48:10 PM "Dont buy the hype, version 1 was the EV1 which GM released in 1996. Sorry the market killed the EV1. Thats short-sighted. Thats right.
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