[MamaDearest]

Production of stimulus-aided car batteries revs up

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. Costs are high. The government has estimated that a battery with a 100-mile range costs about $33,000, although stimulus money could bring that down to $10,000 by the end of 2015.

. Anderman said by e-mail that if by 2013-14 the factories are profitable and running at full capacity, Obama officials will be able to claim success. “Unfortunately that scenario is pretty unlikely,” he said.

[ADemocratNoMore]

Those batteries are probably lithium-ion. Throw enough money at ‘em & maybe they'll iron out the bugs, but... Remember the exploding laptops?. Lion batteries - they burn at over 1000 degrees & at that heat they disassociate water into hydrogen and oxygen, not to mention giving off other toxic combustion products.

A little fender-bender in the right (or wrong) place could leave you with quite a crispy conveyance.