- Since most of the Electric and Hybrid car news focuses on Lithium batteries I figured it’s time for a few lithium links: Is lithium-ion the ideal battery?, wiki lithium ion entry, operating principles of lithium batteries.
- Genetically engineered blood protein might offer new technique for splitting water into hydrogen.
- GM says its top priority is to build a plug-in hybrid they aren’t really saying when.
- A bit dated, but Honda rolled out another concept hybrid car at the recent LA Auto show. Even if you don’t like hybrid cars all of this attention and product engineering can only mean good things for electric cars: improved technology and batteries, and presumably lower costs as they become more mainstream and more manufacturers are competing.
Have you guys heard about the MIT Capacitor that will store about half as much energy as a Li-ion battery (pound for pound), but about 80 times the power output? Rechargeable about 300,000 times. Supposedly going to market in 5 years, but it’s being developed with the help of the “Ford/MIT alliance”. It has the potential to be pretty cheap. It uses Carbon Nanotubes to increase the surface area inside the capacitor.