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Feature: Are Eco-Friendly Cars Expensive to Own?

Clean Fleet Report

States where charging is almost prohibitively expensive in some major locations (such as Hawaii, where charging costs can reach over 50 cents per kilowatt-hour) can actually cost EV drivers more in lifetime fuel costs compared to those from driving gasoline-powered vehicles. Nickel-Metal Hydride.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

This is key." ( Wall Street Journal ) 1/17/08 The handful in demonstration service now use nickel-metal hydride batteries and will shift to lithium as Toyota begins putting 400 plug-in Priuses into demonstration service worldwide beginning late next year or early 2010. (

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Electric Car Manufacturers Inspire New Paradigms -- Seeking Alpha

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Better Place is building stations in San Francisco, Hawaii, Israel, and Denmark to swap out 1,000 pound batteries in a car wash type set up. Today we could be using lead-acid EVs, lead-carbon-acid EVs, or nickel metal hydride or lithium-ion hybrids.