Detroit's New Crush: battery developers
Cobasys, A123 Systems, Firefly, Altair Nanotechnologies, Johnson Controls, Saft Advanced Power Solutions. AutoblogGreen readers know these names and the high-tech batteries the companies' engineers are working on, but USA Today is introducing them to the Average American in near-hyperbolic terms: as rock stars.
I agree that battery companies are one of the domestic auto industry's potential saviors, but I've seen some execs from these companies, and I've yet to see a gaggle of groupies following them. Still, harnessing the power of electric energy to practically move cars might be as life changing to cars as the electric cable was to guitars. OK, now I'm the hyperbolic one.
Point is, car batteries a getting the "ooohhh, sexy" treatment in USA Today, with an article that looks at some of the big names in battery technology and how they might power EVs and PHEVs. The article itself is good, although not required reading for anyone who checks this site regularly. But now you know that the names we slightly obsess over are becoming fodder for the newspaper with all the charts and graphs in it.
Oooohhh, sexy.
[Source: Chris Woodyard / USA Today]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Kent Beuchert 1:23PM (1/29/2007)
Missed was the one company most likely to render all further battery research useless - EESTor.
And they are shipping product. I have no reason to doubt that their device works as advertised, which spells doom for all batteries, everywhere.
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Paul 2:41PM (1/29/2007)
EESTor shipping product? Thats news to me. Last I heard they had produced a bunch of very pure powder and that was about it!
Kent, care to provide some proof of the above statement?
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bland moves 11:57PM (1/29/2007)
someone needs to photoshop a big vibrator on the end of that cord she is holding.
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David Lassiter 12:31AM (2/19/2007)
Kent Beuchert lives apparently in McLean, VA and my estimate he works for the an oil antil global warming lobby hired to discredit global warming. He has various email addresses listed in Florida also. He can be seen listing comments on literally hundreds of global warming / electric car articles as one of the first or second listers. I am working on a story to track him down and the number of fake reviews he lists on behalf of the lobbying industry. If you have any information, please forward it to me. Regards - David Lassiter.
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