Posted on 04/25/2011 9:24:03 AM PDT by Qbert
President Obamas plan to put one million electric cars on American roads by 2015 is a boon for makers of expensive advanced batteriesespecially in Korea and Japan.
Although U.S. researchers have developed advanced battery designs, the U.S. has lacked manufacturers who can produce them. That situation is changing thanks to a stimulus-funded initiative to build battery plants in Michigan, but the change has been slowand battery manufacturers in Korea and Japan are not sitting idly by.
The Asians are ramping up the capability to produce batteries at a scary rate, actually, said Mark Peters, Argonne National Laboratorys deputy director for programs, on Thursday. Were following that very closely. Because were developing advanced technologies, but theres no U.S. industry to really take hold of what were developing.
The batteries for the lauded GM Volt are assembled at new plants in Michigan, but those plants are sited near airports that receive the lithium-ion cells from Korea.
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But a million electric cars means a million batteriesand America may not win the race to develop lighter, less expensive, more reliable ones. Obama has been pushing batteries since his first presidential campaign but with renewed energy of late.
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They need to invent the flying Jetson car...we won’t need no steenkin’ roads.
Makes no sense whatsoever: That should be dictionary as the definition of the word: Utopia
* A program to take 500 to 700 lbs out of a vehicle
* Picking tier suppliers for soup to nuts conversion/ co-production lines of Gaseous Fuel systems for Fleet Vehicles
* A Euro-Focus at a car show, with their latest gen Diesel and extensive underside Aerodynamics. 67 mpg highway if my memory is correct.
These area of pushing the technological envelope are far more common sensical than the hybrid/plug-in paradigm.
The X-Prize "Edison 2" won without a hybrid drivetrain, they couldn't make an engineering case for it....
My Prediction?
In 10 years it maybe the "Super-Light" car vs the Hybrid-Plugin-Electric.
IMHO the Super-Light will win....
Not only that, 0bama is completely against expanding domestic electricity production. Into what are people supposed to plug these stupid cars? Candles?
And just how much gasoline is required to run those planes?
You are right. He thinks if you have a receptacle you will always have electricity. All Greene's think that.
Good luck ENER stockholders.
And Ethanol company PEIX trading down at 45 cents today...
more good luck for PEIX stock holders.
You don’t understand.
Electric cars aren’t for driving. They’re for parking in the driveway to look pretty while you run off to catch a Chinese made bullet train so you can be a half hour late to work every morning.
“A USDA approved free range chicken cooking with EPA approved alternate energy in every pot and a Volt burning in every garage....”
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