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The Automotive Update: Risk of further automotive job cuts

Baua Electric

In the UK, Nissan has cancelled night shifts on one production line at its Sunderland plant, according to the BBC. This means manufacturing battery cells for e-bikes and energy storage, according to the Financial Times. This includes 2,000 workers in its research and development division that will not be affected by the cuts.

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We visited the OLA Future Factory: Electric Scooter Manufacturing

Plug In India

I met with Preeti Gupta, a freelancer with the BBC. So energy storage of pack is 57.6 * 80 = 4.6 Since then he has stayed with the same battery. In extreme cold, there is a drop of about 5% in range. But age related range degradation has not been significant. Each NCA cell is rated at 3.6

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Finally there may be new energy storage that requires less lithium. This may be the lowest cost energy storage solution just because we are going to make the batteries anyway. February 17, 2009 9:11 am Link Smart grid great Dumb govt. not Combine the two and it will be a long time before anything real exists. (

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