Video clip of Hybrid Technologies "from space" on Modern Marvels
Hybrid Technologies is offering up the six-minute segment on the company's electric vehicles that was broadcast a week and a half ago on the History Channel as part of the Modern Marvels episode "It came from Space" episode.
The clip, which you can watch by clicking the play button above, takes us to HT's Mooresville. North Carolina Plant and get a quick history lesson about lithium battery development at NASA. HT signed a Space Act Agreement with NASA in 2006 for the development of lithium-ion fleet vehicles. The video clip includes a nice view into the company's conversion process and we see HT's lithium Smart Car, lithium PT Cruiser and Assault and Surveillance ATV.
[Source: Hybrid Technologies]
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mirko 4:02AM (5/26/2007)
Developed by NASA? WTF... Those cells look like standard Kokams to me.
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Leo Quan 1:38PM (5/26/2007)
Definitely Kokam's. The flat pkging is unmistakable. The Kokam logo at about 5:45 in proves it.
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Matt 2:20PM (5/26/2007)
The battery cells in the video might very well be produced by Kokam, but the technology was developed by NASA, like many advanced technologies out there today. It was developed by the Glenn Research Center in the mid-ninety's. http://sbir.gsfc.nasa.gov/SBIR/successes/ss/3-024text.html
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Tim 4:06PM (5/26/2007)
Actually, Matt, lithium ion batteries first became commercially viable in the late eighties/early nineties when Dr John Goodenough, who joined the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin in 1986, developed a practical positive electrode material system. Take that to the base!
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