Green Car Congress
APRIL 4, 2018
In addition to trolleybuses, under the contract, the company will also provide batteries that will allow the modernization of 21 other vehicles, by replacing nickel-cadmium batteries with lithium-ion ones, together with appropriate power electronics. Gdynia was the buyer of the first trolleybus produced by Solaris in 2000.
Cars That Think
JULY 30, 2023
Jonas Ekstromer/AFP/Getty Images In the early 1970s, Exxon scientists predicted that global oil production would peak in the year 2000 and then fall into a steady decline. Up to that time, the best rechargeable battery had been nickel cadmium, which put out a maximum of 1.3 PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE Several meetings followed.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
It is simply the cost of doing business. "On some products, the costs, particularly in advanced technologies, are high," he said in a lengthy interview with Automotive News (free subscription required). The mines in Canada where the nickel & cadmium are mined is one of the most polluted places on Earth.
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