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The new F-150 has a past

Electric Auto Association

‘E&E News’ tells the story of the Ford RangerEV BY RON FREUND: Director, ELECTRIC AUTO ASSOCIATION. Optional were Nickel Metal Hydride (NiMH) batteries, the same as those used in Toyota’s RAV4EV and Honda’s EV+. A NiMH RangerEV could travel nearly 100 miles in favorable conditions. We update you with EV news monthly.

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Redwood Materials recovers ~95% of metals from EOL battery packs

Teslarati

The battery recycling company also worked with dismantlers to collect and recycle lithium ion and nickel metal hydride (NiMH) from EOL vehicle batteries. “The The packs we collected were a mix of older NiMH and newer lithium-ion chemistries from more than a dozen different automakers.

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Guess Who's Back -- 2024 Toyota Land Cruiser Marks Return of an Iconic Name

The Truth About Cars

kWh NiMH battery pack. Get the latest& news, features, TTAC takes, and everything else that gets to the truth about cars first by& subscribing to our& newsletter. And it will have a base price in the mid-$50,000s. There will be just one powertrain -- an i-Force Max hybrid setup that pairs a 2.4-liter

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Get out of the way diesel! Toyota Prado petrol-electric hybrid SUV coming to Australia as soon as 2024

EV Central

The system includes a 35kW electric motor integrated within its eight-speed automatic transmission and a 1.87kWh NiMH battery pack to charge it. That Prado 250’s hybrid system has already been seen with the HiLux-sized US-spec Toyota Tacoma ute and is expected to eventually come here in the Prado 250’s sibling, the Lexus GX.

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Hybrid batteries doing fine

Plugs and Cars

There's good news in Jim Motavalli's Greentech report in the NY Times about NiMH batteries in hybrids. The batteries have gotten cheaper, and they have proven robust and long-lived. Toyota reports a tiny percentage of replacements - 350 packs out of hundreds of thousands of 2nd generation Priuses.

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Lutz Chats Volt with "Fellow Bloggers"

Plugs and Cars

Lutz responds to the sense that GM might be pulling back from its commitment to the Volt that resulted from Sharon Terlep's Detroit News article a month or so ago. (My Or is lithium the new hydrogen? Asked why not Nickel Metal Hydride batteries in the Volt, at least to start, he says "NiMH just doesn't do it." But hold on.

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Peugeot-Citroen reaches hybrid car agreement

Green Cars News

The report suggests that Sanyo Electric Company has reached an agreement with PSA Peugeot Citroen to supply NiMH batteries for its diesel-electric hybrid cars, beginning in 2011. Tags: Citroen Green cars Hybrid cars Latest news Peugeot Citroen DS5 NiMH batteries Peugeot 3008 PSA Peugeot Citroen Sanyo.

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