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What is a solid-state battery?

EV Central

It’s a battery with no runny stuff inside. This tech will lead to better EV batteries, for reasons we’ll get to in a moment. Solid-state batteries being developed for automotive applications use lithium-based chemistries, just like the batteries in EVs you can buy today. READ MORE: Do EV batteries wear out?

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The Dirty Truth of Petrol & Diesel Vehicles

Plug In India

So what about the lithium used in EV batteries? Lithium is a metal that is mined in the deserts of Australia, China, Argentina, and Chile. Besides being a key ingredient in batteries, Lithium is also ingested as a medicine for bipolar disorder. So what about the batteries?

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Tesla’s Cyberquad for kids recalled for ‘violations of federal safety standard’

Teslarati

Instead, consumers who purchased the product should immediately contact Radio Flyer, which imported the vehicles from China’s Feishen Vehicle Industry Co. Additional information on disposing of the remainder of the Cyberquad is available on the recall website under FAQs at www.radioflyer.com/recalls. MarketWatch said.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

About CalCars Plug-In Hybrids FAQ How to Get a PHEV Where PHEVs are Carmakers Say. GM has announced plans for public sales in 2010, and almost every carmaker now says it will sell PHEVs or highway-speed battery electric vehicles (BEVs) sometime after 2010. In late 2008, BYD started selling the first production PHEV in China.

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Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

How Real, How Soon, and What Must Happen Next,” which concludes the costs of creating an automotive market dominated by electric and hybrid cars are prohibitively high for the foreseeable future – as high as $49 billion for Europe alone (along with another $21 billion for battery-charging infrastructure). Volt will survive and prosper,” G.M.’s

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Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The benefit of a higher voltage connector has nothing to do with the speed at which the battery will charge it has to do with the conductor size. excluding coal power in china. China demanded this a few years ago for their market, and it was implemented quickly. The US standard is 120V@60hz the UK standard is 240V@50Hz.

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

April 10, 2009 10:09 am Link It amazes me that in the vast debate about electric cars world wide including here in Norway, no one ever mention the fact that the batteries in such cars need replacement in no more than five years. So imagine a million electric cars on US roads which all need to change these batteries in say 2015.

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