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Li-Ion Batteries Hit Final R&D Phase for Plug-in Cars
An anonymous reader writes "Tesla finally delivered its first production model of the all-electric Roadster this month. Coinciding with that, researchers from the big automakers and their outsourced startup labs are hitting stride in the development of cheap, high-powered lithium-ion batteries. These may actually end up in our garages. Toyota, in fact, says it's got enough of the chemistry down to roll out a test fleet for the plug-in Prius before the end of 2009. It's mass production of battery tech that's the holdup — which might mean Mercedes' electric hybrids beat the Prius to market en masse by 2010 or 2011."
Please, please, tell me they are not getting their batteries from Sony!
"50 cars caught fire on I-4 today."
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...and hopefully good riddance. Say, did you know that an electric vehicle was the first to travel at 100km/h...
...in 1899!!!
"Picture's"? WTF dude... is that like saying "There are three dog's who take walk's on most day's when their owner come's home after teaching lesson's to many kid's"?
One picture. Two pictures. No apostrophe. English, motherfucker... do you speak it?
He's from the "an apostrophe means 'look out, here comes an S'" school of English.
How often does a car catch file after a crash? Only very rarely.
Wrong. Everyone knows that cars always explode after a crash. Sometimes, though, the explosion happens after the driver and occupants escape to a safe distance.
I've seen it myself hundreds of times, both on TV and in movies.