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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

Cars That Think

It occurred in the wake of the California electricity crisis of 2000 and 2001, when mismanaged deregulation, market manipulation, and environmental catastrophe combined to unhinge the power grid. As utilities shifted to more reliable alternating-current systems, they phased out these costly backup batteries.

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The difference between lithium iron phosphate and lithium battery

Setec Powerr

Lithium-ion battery cathode materials mainly include lithium cobaltate, manganate, nickelate, ternary materials, lithium iron phosphate, etc. Lithium cobaltate is currently the majority of lithium-ion battery cathode material. Lithium iron phosphate batteries have a long life and cycle life of more than 2000 times.

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Toyota Prius modders have already been adding larger batteries so the vehicle can run on battery power. when bio-batteries are invented (through DNA splicing) you can just swamp them into the EV1 plug and play style) cant do that crap with the Volt. when they were forced to put NIHM batteries in the range was 150 miles.

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