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(snip) ...Scientists are working to develop refillable, or so-called flow, batteries that can be refueled in minutes at a vast network of converted gas stations. It’s a shift that could make electric vehicles (EVs) more attractive to drivers who are wary of long charging times. “You drive 300 miles, drain your tank and pump in new [liquid] — as long as it would take to fill your car with gasoline — and drive off,” says John Cushman, a professor of earth and atmospheric sciences and mathematics at Purdue and a leading researcher on liquid battery technology.

EcoloCap Solutions, Inc. (ECOS), with its subsidiary Micro Bubble Technologies Inc., is developing a new battery technology that could disrupt the market for rivals like Ener1, Inc. (HEV) and Valence Technology, Inc. (VLNC). The Technology The CNT-Batteries proprietary technology modifies the fabrication of lead acid batteries by applying a highly-conductive carbon nano tube coating to the anode and cathode cells. As a result, conductive surface area is increased by a factor of billions and electricity is carried out more efficiently. Traditionally, nano tubes have been difficult to synthesize, as they tend to appear in abnormal shapes and cluster together. The...