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Hyundai to offer Tucson Fuel Cell vehicle to LA-area retail customers in spring 2014; Honda, Toyota show latest FCV concepts targeting 2015 launch

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Currently, there’s an ongoing debate about the future of the electric vehicle, which Hyundai condensed into two approaches: Store more electricity on-board using more/larger batteries. The energy is stored in a 24 kWh lithium-ion polymer battery, jointly developed with LG Chemical. Hyundai is taking the second approach.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

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John Voelcker has been reporting on cars and the automotive industry for almost as long as he's been driving. He's also a contributing editor to Car and Driver , and is the editor of Green Car Reports. But your experience would likely be you would get in your electric car. in 2000 to 0.7 That is globally 0.7

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

John Voelcker has been reporting on cars and the automotive industry for almost as long as he's been driving. He's also a contributing editor to Car and Driver , and is the editor of Green Car Reports. But your experience would likely be you would get in your electric car. in 2000 to 0.7 That is globally 0.7

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A More Detailed Look at a Prismatic Li-ion Cell and Pack Manufacturing Process

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Green Car Congress appreciates EnerDel’s cooperation in sharing their process with our readers. Dave Hahn, EnerDel’s director of component manufacturing, said the process is very similar to making audio tapes although the coating is thicker for a battery (note: audio tapes were a common way of storing music in the 20 th century).

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

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Then consider that in order to actually go any farther than the neighbood store, one still had to have ANOTHER car. So just use a portable electric generator in the trunk, from the hardware store to charge the batteries while you drive. run the hardware store and buy a new one. They make them all wrong.

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