Lithium Ion Batteries with nanowires

[domwild]

Let's hope this research and other research going on provides us and EV people with

better batteries:

http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/january9/nanowire-010908.html

[ruddycrazy]

Hiya Dom,

          Well this new thing does smell like smoke oil where the big guy's will step in and quash the concept. It really is a shame  where new stuff hits the news then disappears. Hopefully this one won't get bought and squashed but time will tell.

Cheers Bryan

[Old F]

Nanowires  must be the new buzz word I read  were  they  are going to be used in computer data  storage

Next thing you now the show up in hair and weight loss products

OLD F

[scloyd]

Does anyone know if Valence has sold out to big oil yet?  I know Mobil oil bought the rights to the Ovid NMH batteries right after they made the EV1 viable.  Valence has their plant for the new lithium phosphate batteries in China.  The new ones that look like a car battery are due to be released in March '08 and have 2.5x power density by volume and 3.8x power density increase by weight.  The Ovid/Mobil buyout should have been prohibited until antitrust regulations.