The battery problem

Posted on January 11, 2008
Filed Under All, Technology, Green Tech |

Aside from not having a national grid with enough inexpensive, ‘green’ power to recharge them, electric cars are being stalled by one other problem: batteries. No one has yet developed a battery that is sufficiently powerful, small and safe. A handful of startups and some industrial giants are working on the problem, as described in today’s Wall Street Journal. The current leader, Lithium-Ion technology, has an unfortunate tendency to catch fire

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