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- It's Shocking: Electric Car Batteries in Short Supply
- Late last month, Ford Americas President Mark Fields said that problems with nickel-metal-hydride battery supplies could hinder the number of 2010 Fusion Hybrid cars the company will be able to produce. "We are constrained by the amount of components, including batteries, that the supply base can provide us," he...
- Blog posts 2009-01-09
- The Car Battery Race: Showing Favorites?
- The lithium-ion batteries that Silicon Valley’s Imara Corporation is developing for electric lawnmowers are a means to an end. In the future, Imara hopes to be powering your car, not just four-wheeled lawn equipment. Imara, which has raised almost $20 million to date, is in some ways a...
- Blog posts 2009-03-04
- Leased Electric Car Batteries Take a Big Step Forward
- Electric cars are too expensive for the average consumer -- if you buy the whole vehicle, anyway. Take out the batteries, and you've got something affordable. That pretty much sums up the plans of Nissan and Renault, the two car companies run by Brazilian investor Carlos Ghosn....
- Blog posts 2009-09-14
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- Newstream.com digest: Protect Your Car Battery In Winter Weather, Kendall-Jackson's Interactive Online Wedding Wine Planner
- Business/Feature Editors & Automotive/Food/High-Tech Writers NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--Feb. 2, 2001 Romance Still In And On The Net At CatalogCity.Com, and Other Free Multimedia Story Packages for Journalists -------------------------------------------------- Protect Your Car Battery In Winter Weather It's one of the worst parts of winter --...
- Research articles 2001-02-02
- New Electric Car Battery Available for ZAP (OTCBB: ZAAP) XEBRA Truck
- Electric car pioneer ZAP (OTCBB: ZAAP) is offering a new electric car battery that can extend the range of its XEBRA Truck by as much as 40 percent. The new batteries are now in stock at ZAP and can be purchased through your local ZAP dealer.
- Research articles 2007-03-14
- North Charleston, S.C.-Based Car Battery Manufacturer Planning to Expand.
- By Jim Parker, The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 1--Privately held The InterTech Group is denying a published report that its car battery products business is up for sale, contending instead that the North Charleston-based corporation plans to expand...
- Research articles 2001-11-01
- Tesla Will Build Battery Packs for Other Electric Cars
- If Tesla Motors can't get its own electric sedan on the road, at least it can partner with other car makers to get their electric vehicles on the road. Tesla, the Silicon Valley electric car company that has repeatedly delayed production of its Model S sedan, will produce lithium-ion battery...
- News items 2009-08-07
- The Electric Car Battery Battle
- Jim Kingsdale submits: The next five years will clearly be a transition period from the petro-car to the electric car. But this transition will feature an interesting horse race between two different battery technologies, a lithium-ion (Li-on) or an upgraded Nickel Metal Hydride [NiMH] powered battery. Apparently Toyota TM...
- External links 2008-08-08
- Very Promising! Zinc-Air Battery Could Hold 300% More Energy Than Lithium-Ion
- Image: ReVolt Technology Might This Be the One We've Been Waiting For?Not quite as impressive on paper as the lithium-air battery we wrote about (which claimed 10x more energy storage than regular lithium-ion), but it might turn out to be easier to take out of the lab and bring to...
- News items 2009-10-28
- Kettering, Ohio-Based Firm Expects Electric-Car Battery Market to Grow.
- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 9 -- KETTERING, Ohio -- Humming along as quietly as an electric car, Ovonic Energy Products in Kettering has been producing advanced electric-car batteries for more than a year and preparing for a market it expects to grow dramatically...
- Research articles 1999-11-10
- GM chooses Delphi's AGM battery
- Delphi's Freedom, an absorbent glass mat AGM car battery that boasts improved reliability, spill-proof safety, and twice the life of a conventional battery, has been chosen for the 2001 Corvette and a selection of future vehicles by General Motors Corp. "The AGM battery answers many of our customers' needs," said...
- Research articles 2001-08-01
- Sanyo signs car battery deal
- Sanyo Electric of Japan will supply France's PSA Peugeot Citroën with batteries for its hybrid electric vehicles, the latest in a string of deals as carmakers seek to secure supplies of an electric car's most vital component. Sanyo will supply nickel metal hydride batteries for the hybrid Peugeot 3008 and...
- News items 2009-11-02
- Thai car-battery maker upbeat about sales.
- By Busrin Treerapongpichit, Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 16--Thai Storage Battery Plc, the maker of 3K batteries, expects its annual revenue this year to be 12-15 percent higher than last year, in line with overall growth in the battery...
- Research articles 2004-07-16
- Alabama Sues Car-Battery Maker Exide Corp..
- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 6 -- The state of Alabama is suing automotive battery maker Exide Corp., charging that the company is selling old batteries as new and mislabeling batteries it sold to consumers. The suit was filed Oct. 6 in...
- Research articles 1999-11-09
- Car-Battery Maker Exide to Close Farmers Branch, Texas, Plant.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
- Oct. 3--Exide Technologies of Pennsylvania, a manufacturer of car batteries, will close GNB Technologies in Farmers Branch and fire 258 employees there, company officials said. The company purchased GNB, which also makes batteries, this year and said then that it would close some facilities...
- Research articles 2000-10-03
- Shares of Princeton, N.J.-Based Car Battery Firm Drop on News of Federal Probe.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
- Jan. 12--Shares of Exide Technologies, the world's largest maker of car batteries, dropped 12 percent a day after the Princeton-based company said it could face a criminal indictment or be forced to accept a plea agreement with federal prosecutors over its dealings with Sears, Roebuck &...
- Research articles 2001-01-12
- A Car Guy's Electric Moment
- As a third-generation GMer, Jon Lauckner is fiercely committed to restoring greatness to America?s biggest car company. The VP of global product planning and the man behind the Chevy Volt, is determined to go big or go home. ...
- Articles 2009-11-11
- With Such U.S. Partners as Coda Automotive, Chinese Car Market Becomes World's Largest
- By most measures, the Chinese auto market is booming. In the first half of 2009, China led the world with 6.1 million sales (compared to just 4.8 million in the U.S.) But there’s more to it than just that: China is also poised to become the world leader in electric...
- Blog posts 2009-10-01
- Nissan battery sale plan set to cut electric car costs
- Nissan Motor yesterday announced plans to market used lithium-ion batteries from its soon-to-launch Leaf electric car to solar-power generators and other secondary customers - a move that could bring down the high cost of owning a zero-emission vehicle. The carmaker said it would form a joint venture with Sumitomo Corp,...
- News items 2009-10-20
- Detroit Auto Show: Toyota Cautious on Battery Cars
- Bill Reinert, Toyota's grizzled national alternative-fuel vehicles manager, isn't afraid to describe himself both as "an old hippie" and as an ardent environmentalist. And yet he's inherently cautious when asked at the North American International Auto Show about the company's volume plans for a production battery car similar to the...
- Blog posts 2009-01-13
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