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Profile: Li-ion Battery and Pack Supplier Valence Technology

Green Car Congress

Green Car Congress had the opportunity recently to have a discussion with Mark Donaghy, the Global Marketing Manager for Valence Technology, Inc., Valence’s Saphion technology, commercially introduced in 2002, refers to the processes and materials used in developing the novel patented lithium iron magnesium phosphate cathode materials.

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CalCars' PRIUS+ Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Our goal is to encourage Toyota and other automakers to supply the market for PHEVs. Instructions (1.5MB pdf) show how individuals can enable the Priuss EV-only mode Coastal Electric Technologies also offers a kit. Ford has licensed Toyota hybrid patents and Nissan will use the Hybrid Synergy Drive technology.

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Never Recharge Your Consumer Electronics Again?

Cars That Think

But fortunately enough for us, over 50 percent of the consumer electronic market is black products. But now, I mean, today we have over 300 granted patents, another 90 that will be approved soon. We have a globally exclusive deal for electronic shelf labels, the small price tags in the stores. When do you see market success?”

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

Cars That Think

A high-speed network that connects computers, printers, and other peripherals in an office or building. The first personal computer developed in the United States is commonly thought to be the MITS Altair, which sold as a hobbyist’s kit in 1976. At nearly the same time the Apple I became available, also in kit form.

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The electric year ahead: Every new EV coming to Australia in 2024

EV Central

Excitingly, 2024 is shaping up to set new records for the EV market with an onslaught of new arrivals. BYD ute BYD ute patent. Sharing its basic layout and compact SUV body with the petrol-powered models that hit the market in 2023, the Chery Omoda 5 EV gets a unique front-end design that appears to improve aerodynamics.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

April 10, 2009 11:21 am Link Kaare- Lithium Ion batteries do not contain lead (unless it is in solder connections) and do not contain acid. Chevron owns the NiMH patents and have not allowed EV size batts to be built. Tags: evdriven. None of the new electric cars are planning to use old-tech lead acid batteries.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

And what we want to do is make sure we launch the car well, that we get the maximum learning from it, that its successful in the market so that when we get to Gen 2, weve got the most cost out of it we can." Posted by: Michael | Apr 13, 2009 5:03:10 PM Battery and technology in the EV1 could not have made it in the market.

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