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Old 11-13-2008, 10:05 AM   #1 (permalink)
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News: Battery Life Breakthrough Could Increase Capacity by 800%

Sounds pretty good. The transfer of application to vehicles would be amazing. Just think a Volt with 320 mile all electric range. I wonder what kinda costs are involved.

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This is going to be interesting to watch. If this invention actually works, and it sounds viable, it will quickly get adapted for use in automotive batteries and eventually give us the final piece of the EV puzzle, long range batteries.
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Crossing my fingers (on one hand only, two hands cancel out) that this comes true.

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