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Nickel-Metal-Hydride Batteries For Electric Cars? Energy Density Can Rise 10-Fold: Researchers

Green Car Reports

The division is pretty clear: nickel-metal-hydride batteries are for use only in hybrids--at least those from Toyota, which has used more of the batteries than any other maker by far.

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Tech: How do Hybrid & Plug-in Hybrid Batteries Recharge? Do I Need to Plug a Hybrid In?

Clean Fleet Report

But the mass market was confused; these new cars had an additional battery to provide electricity to an electric motor. For the uninformed, the question was: Does the battery need to be plugged in to a hybrid car charger ? But it needs to be plugged in to an electrical outlet to maintain the electric-only range.

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Feature: Are Eco-Friendly Cars Expensive to Own?

Clean Fleet Report

They found that hybrid and alternative fuel vehicles (especially electric cars) easily saved their owners money when looking at the purchase price, fuel costs and regular maintenance. The motors that electric vehicles use have fewer moving parts than their gasoline-powered counterparts and don’t require oil changes.

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Will Old Electric-Car Battery Packs Cause Horrible Pollution?

Green Car Reports

It goes, essentially, like this: No one recognizes the horrible pollution problems that will arrive when hybrid and electric cars are junked, and their nickel-metal-hydride and lithium-ion battery packs go into landfills. It's an assertion that comes up a lot in comments on our stories. It's a worthwhile concern.

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Honda expanding partnership with SNAM on second-life batteries and battery recycling in Europe

Green Car Congress

The expansion of this agreement will see SNAM collect Lithium-ion and Nickel Metal Hydride (NiMH) batteries from across Honda’s dealer network and Authorized Treatment Facilities (ATF) in 22 countries, before analyzing how suitable they are for recycling and processing them accordingly.

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Is The Elusive 'Ideal' Electric-Car Battery Hiding In Plain Sight?

Green Car Reports

Andy Thomson is at the white-knuckled, breath-sucking end of his electric car’s range. DON'T MISS: Nickel-Metal-Hydride Batteries For. His battery is almost flatlining. It’s minus 26 Celsius outside on the lonely road to North Bay, Ontario.

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Patent Fight Erupts Over Next-Generation Electric-Car Battery Chemistry

Green Car Reports

Electric cars may still make up just a tiny percentage of the vehicles on world roads, but the batteries that power them are already a big business. RELATED: Nickel-Metal-Hydride. Green Argonne National Laboratory Batteries lawsuit plug-in cars research research and development'