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Lead-Carbon Battery Company Axion Power Completes $26M Private Placement Stock Offering

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Its best-known development is the PbC battery, which substitutes activated carbon for lead on the negative electrode of an otherwise traditionally manufactured absorbed glass mat (AGM) lead-acid battery. Axion Power has developed several technological improvements to traditional lead-acid batteries, and owns numerous patents covering them.

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New York City adding 70 electric vehicles to fleet; launches EV educational push

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New York City is adding 70 electric vehicles to its fleet: 50 new Chevrolet Volts, 10 fully electric Ford Transit Connect cargo vans, and 10 new fully electric Navistar E-star utility trucks. The City’s Taxi of Tomorrow—the Nissan NV200—can be manufactured as an all electric taxi, if the pilot program proves successful.