8 Articles match "Nickel Cadmium","Prius"

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• Could the Prius be harmful to the environment?
  
  Though widely thought of as the ultimate green car, the 2010 Toyota Prius is facing criticism over just how green it is. The controversy centres on its use of a nickel metal hydride battery. The Prius uses a lot of fossil fuels during its hybrid battery development and now critics are calling for Toyota to correct its green statements.
  Green Cars News - Thursday, June 25, 2009
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• Altairnano and Electro Energy to Partner on Lithium-Ion Batteries
  
  Electro Energy is currently working with CalCars on a custom prototype battery pack based on the bi-polar NiMH batteries for use in CalCars's Prius+ plug-in hybrid testbed. Its Colorado Springs operation supplies aerospace-grade high quality nickel cadmium batteries and components for satellites, aircraft and other specialty applications.
  CalCars News - PHEV News - Thursday, March 9, 2006
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• Electro Energy announces CalCars project
  
  See also our comments on the technical side at the PRIUS+ Plug-In Hybrid Conversion Group [link] Subsequent comments on the technical side will be at the Conversion Discussion Group. Electro Energy Advanced Technology to Power Hybrid Electric Vehicles for CalCars' PRIUS+ Program Thursday October 20, 8:30 am ET. Toyota Prius, 2.
  CalCars News - PHEV News - Thursday, October 20, 2005
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• SmartMoney.com: Should Investors Believe the Hybrid Hype?
  
  Thursday after the battery maker agreed to design a prototype battery pack that could be used to power a Toyota Prius. Toyota Motor (TM), the manufacturer of the Prius, has no connection to the deal. With gasoline prices so high, the Prius, introduced in 1997, is the best-selling hybrid in the world. to $4.60 at 12:10.
  CalCars News - PHEV News - Friday, October 21, 2005
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• PHEVs Going International: Europe's Avere Conference
  
  The conference included several presentations on plug-in hybrids by researchers from around the world, as well as a plug-in hybrid roundtable hosted by Ron Gremban of CalCars, who was the technical lead for the first PHEV conversion of a Toyota Prius in 2004. Thanks to Belgian retired engineer Jacques Marlot helping to make this happen!).
  CalCars News - PHEV News - Monday, June 18, 2007
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• America: The Hybrid Craze from Le Nouvel Observateur
  
  Toyota has already sold over 150,000 Priuses in the United States, and Detroit's Big Three (Ford, Chrysler and General Motors), which laughed in front of these gadgets for bearded ecologists, are now working twice as hard to catch up. It was especially true after the introduction of the second generation Prius, in October 2003. link].
  CalCars News - PHEV News - Tuesday, August 9, 2005
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• Andy Frank in American Scientist: Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles for a Sustainable Future
  
  But I quickly discovered that the kinds of batteries then available (lead-acid, nickel-cadmium or iron-nickel Edison cells) were too heavy and could not produce the needed power or store the energy required to provide the desired power-leveling effect. Power-split hybrid diagram and Prius. Figure 1. Space-Age Quest.
  CalCars News - PHEV News - Thursday, February 22, 2007
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• GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com
  
  quot;It is unreasonable to expect the Volt and any similar new technology to be immediately profitable when other technologies that started with a price premium, such as the Toyota Prius, became wild successes," said Chelsea Sexton, an advisory board member of Plug-In America. Wired Home Subscribe Sections Cars 2.0 Thats short-sighted.
  blog.wired.com - Thursday, April 16, 2009
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