"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 10:10:58 +0000 (GMT), Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

http://www.a123systems.com/html/news...051102_pr.html

Sadly no actual figures.

Still the non inflammable bit sounds good.

As I said, things are developing nicely in this area.
The RC boys are already discussing stripping
these out of the new power

tools and flying them...prices are a fair bit lower we think than existing
cells..although actual performance has yet to be established.

These batteries are only what is on the market 'now' - and that is
impressive enough. In the labs the performance is even better and the US
government is pouring billions into battery research. I can see well within
10 years full EV cars around, and quite quickly they will replace the
current polluting antiquate crocks. On 'currently available' technology the
EV is 100% feasible. If the decision to roll out the infrastructure for
charging, by the time it is in place battery technology will have improved
greatly.