Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2009

In the near-term (2011), lithium-ion batteries could grow to represent about 21% of the hybrid and EV advanced battery market, according to Dr. Menahem Anderman, President of Advanced Automotive Batteries and the organizer of last week’s Advanced Automotive Battery Conference 2009. By 2015, he suggests, full hybrids (e.g.,

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2009

Bubble chart of plausible mainstream PHEV buyers’ battery requirements (light and dark gray circles) and experts’s requirements overlaid on a Ragone plot of NiMH and Li-ion batteries. What looks good against today’s conventional car may not look so good against tomorrow’s conventional car or tomorrow’s hybrid, Plotkin said.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2009

The perspective of rising oil prices is a turboboost for a change in customer behavior, he said. Volkswagen had begun exploring hybrid and electric drive technology in the 1990s. Volkswagen had begun exploring hybrid and electric drive technology in the 1990s. This trend is no fad, but a fundamental paradigm shift.”.

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