Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2010

A series of recent reports—one from the National Research Council (NRC) ( earlier post ) and another from the Boston Consulting Group ( earlier post )—concluded that an expected continuing high cost of lithium-ion batteries will dampen mass market adoption of plug-in vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

The current collectors extend beyond the circuit via tabs and are welded together to make an electrical connection. If they were to touch they would create an electrical short. Each heatsink holds two cells, one on each side, and electrically they are in parallel forming an element (figure 8). volts at this point. NK vehicle.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Electric car supporters are rising to defend General Motors’ development of the Chevy Volt after the Obama Administration’s automotive task force proclaimed that the car was probably too expensive to be commercially successful in the near future. . The group pointed to a B.C.G. report titled, “The Comeback of the Electric Car?

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