Comments on: Michigan Powers Job Creation with Electric Car Battery Production

By: Jerome

Jerome — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 17:48:29 +0000

A number of sports cars compensate for a not-so-powerful engine with a light body, paying due respect to the laws of physics: the lighter the mass, the smaller amount of force required to move this mass. This is also the reason why a sports cars usually are smaller, and do not have backseats.allshred secure shredding

By: Rohan

Rohan — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 19:28:14 +0000

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By: Naina

Naina — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 17:19:51 +0000

recruitment agencies to recruit, reliable and effective to be effective in getting is the best skilled hands, but the recruitment process also very profitable. Remember, the class of engineers and technicians are the requirements of oil refineries and gas.
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By: tapra1

tapra1 — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:47:43 +0000

payout from government support of advanced auto technologies and lithium batteries. Michigan will add thousands of new jobs as it ramps up to manufacture as many as 400,000 battery packs a year by 2012.Premium Freebies

By: Brant Young

Brant Young — Mon, 23 May 2011 13:55:16 +0000

okay, Everyone on here needs to shut up. You are all fat and i’m a bastard. Suck on it snitches! 8====>

By: ALEX A.

ALEX A. — Wed, 19 May 2010 05:33:33 +0000

Gary, gas prices will not stay the same forever and based on various reports and articles looks like in two or three years gas prices will hover around 6 dollars a gallon, especially since China has upped its production level. People will fill waiting lists for EV, especially the cars like the VOLT.

By: Gary

Gary — Tue, 11 May 2010 09:39:22 +0000

What happens if the Green economy doesn’t take off, I mean you can’t force people to buy things they don’t want. And I don’t see to many people clamering for electric cars & in a down turn in the economy who can afford one when the savings don’t come back to you for about 3 years… any way good luck building batteries for cars that don’t exist and no one wants.

By: Mike Smith

Mike Smith — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 23:16:26 +0000

Anyone have a guess as to whether this will make hyrbid batteries cheaper to replace in cars already on the road? That is bound to be a big market as batteries start to wear out. Right now though it is roughly 1500-2000 dollars to replace one.

By: ex-EV1 driver

ex-EV1 driver — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 04:14:55 +0000

JBob,
Lithium ion is definitely the trend today. NiMH was actually in-between NiCad and Li-ion. It was a lot more environmentally friendly with the Metal Hydrid instead of the Cadmium. Most of the more advanced production EVs from the ’90′s (that were destroyed) used NiMH, including the gen2 EV1 and the RAV4EV. NiMH had about twice the Specific Energy (Wh/kg) as Lead Acid. Li-ion is running about twice the Specific Energy of NiMH but I suspect that there is room for improvement with both of these. There has also been some work on Zinc-Sulfur and other materials but I suspect the focus will be on increasing the cycle life, calendar life, and Specific Energy of Lithium-based batteries.

By: JBob

JBob — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 20:19:26 +0000

Be nice to know what kind of battery technologies they are focusing on for the future.

Lithium is the current trend, before that NiCad, before that Lead Acid. So what are currently in development as the next iteration of batteries.

Found it interesting that Porche is looking into small flywheels for storage. Be nice to see what others are looking into as well.