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Old 06-30-2009, 05:13 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Hello -

Sounds like a Tesla configuration :

Tesla: Little electric roadster that could - USATODAY.com - 4/15/2008
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Rather than design a new battery from scratch, they made the roadster's energy-storage system a multitude of rechargeable laptop computer battery cells — 6,831 per car — arranged in a half-ton block that's catacombed with cooling channels. Each cell is a little bigger than a AA battery, virtually identical to the few lithium-ion cells that power the IBM ThinkPad on which this story was written.

The battery pack is designed to last more than 100,000 miles and operate in weather extremes, says JB Straubel, Tesla's chief technology officer.
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