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Automotive Class Lithium-Ion Cells from A123

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A123 Systems has introduced Automotive Class Lithium-ion cells. Tags: california air resources board lithium-ion a123 systems. Read the press release here.

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Silicon Valley V2G Plug-in Hybrid Demo

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As the car's lithium ion battery powered a bank of lights and a portable heater, the meter began to run backwards. Green Wombat reports on the Vehicle to Grid (V2G) capability demonstrated by PG&E. The modified Toyota Prius was plugged into a into a standard PG&E meter outside Advanced Micro Devices's Sunnyvale headquarters.

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Automaker Plug-in Hybrid PR Flurry

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. $500 million for battery research buys time. 50,000 grants of $10,000 to purchasers of plug-in cars might just drive the market. 19 -- More than 20 Dodge Sprinter Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEV) will be placed in the United States between now and the first quarter of 2008 as.

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Toyota Hybrid Breakthrough! One-mile EV Range Highlander Hybrid!

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Would a Lithium-ion battery be better? The 24 NiMH batteries in my Toyota RAV4 EV take the car 120 miles without gasoline. Toyota could deliver a plug-in hybrid highlander, get 20 miles all-electric and 75 mpg using NiMH today! Theoretically, yes. That's why every hybrid on the road uses NiMH.

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Toward a Plug-in Hybrid Saturn Vue

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GM today announced two contracts to "design and test lithium-ion batteries" for use in the Saturn Vue Plug-in Hybrid announced last month at the LA Auto Show. Johnson Controls/SAFT, the huge battery company at which President Bush first publicly announced his support for plug-in hybrids, received one contract.

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The Beast in the Rumble Seat

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In December, Nissan announced its "Green Program 2010," projecting a line of hybrids, plug-in hybrids and all-electric cars utilizing lithium-ion batteries of its own manufacture. The latest lithium-ion batteries are energy-dense, durable, compact and recyclable.

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Government, Renault and Agassi: Making Israel a Better Place for Electric Cars

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will provide the lithium-ion batteries, which will be able to go 124 miles per charge, and the infrastructure necessary to keep the cars going — whether parking meter-like plugs on city streets or service stations along highways. Agassi’s company, Project Better Place of Palo Alto, Calif.,