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The new F-150 has a past

Electric Auto Association

Optional were Nickel Metal Hydride (NiMH) batteries, the same as those used in Toyota’s RAV4EV and Honda’s EV+. Today, we have waiting lists of enthusiastic potential Ford F-150 owners eager to try out a new lithium-based version of the company’s latest EV truck.

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Porsche adds second production hybrid model, Panamera S Hybrid

Green Car Congress

The electric motor is connected to a nickel metal hydride (NiMh) battery that stores electric energy recovered from braking and other driving situations. The transmission is the same eight-speed Tiptronic S fitted in the Cayenne models, with a wide range of gear ratios.

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ARPA-E RANGE: $20M for robust transformational energy storage systems for EVs; 3x the range at 1/3 the cost

Green Car Congress

Areas of particular interest are approaches to novel high specific energy cathode/anode redox couples; materials and device designs for long life metal-air systems; ultrahigh capacity negative electrode materials to replace La-Ni alloys in nickel metal hydride batteries; and organic and inorganic redox couples, including their hybrids.

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Toyota Plug In

Plug In Partners

Lithium-ion batteries , now common in laptops, produce more power and are smaller than nickel-metal hydride batteries used in hybrids now. The list of attendees includes Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.); Such plug-in hybrids can run longer as an electric vehicle than regular hybrids, and are cleaner.

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Road Test: 2021 Toyota Sienna Hybrid

Clean Fleet Report

The nickel metal hydride battery is charged when applying the brakes or coasting. Fuel economy numbers reported by Clean Fleet Report are non-scientific and represent the reviewer’s driving experience using the dash gauge computer. Your numbers may differ.

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

For a list of conversions completed to date, see Where PHEVs (mostly Priuses) Are. We will have similar solutions available for better (but more expensive) nickel-metal hydride or lithium-ion batteries.) In 2006, CalCars worked on a project with Electro Energy, Inc.

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