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After more than 1000 charges Volkswagen’s solid-state electric car battery cells retained 95 percent of the original capacity

EV Central

According to Volkswagen’s US battery partner QuantumScape the new solid-state batteries withstood more than 1000 charging cycles at the VW-owned PowerCo laboratories in Salzgitter in Germany and still managed to retain a remarkable 95 per cent of its original capacity – a feat no current battery technology would achieve.

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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. We believe such production models could be available for sale in three years."Furia

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