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Nissan expects to double battery energy capacity by 2015

2010 Nissan Leaf - Click above for high-res image gallery If the ranges offered by the upcoming Nissan and Renault electric cars aren't as long as you'd like, you'll be pleased to learn they should double by 2015. Nissan is just about done developing an energy storage cell that has twice the capacity of their current batteries. Focusing their research efforts on the positive electrode, they have added cobalt and nickel to the manganese they already use which yields them a (breathe) lithium nickel manganese cobalt oxide cathode battery or, ... Read more →

STUDY: "Range anxiety" not based on rational thinking Jeremy Korzeniewski

Conventional wisdom would tell you that an electric car with a range of 93 miles can be driven up to about, oh, 93 miles or so before needing to be recharged. Apparently, most drivers aren't ...

At Witz' End - Range Anxiety Q&A II Gary Witzenburg

I really stepped in it last time by stating that GM never owned patent rights to Ovonic's NiMH batteries and never sold them to an oil company, and that no one sued Toyota. I believed those statements ...

At Witz' End - Range Anxiety Q&A Gary Witzenburg

There was a lot of feedback (50 comments at last count) to my column on EV range anxiety, some thoughtful and intelligent, some not. The few who accuse me of being anti-electric vehicles, which I ...

At Witz' End: My night with range anxiety Gary Witzenburg

I left the dinner meeting around 9:00, with home roughly 60 miles away...no challenge for an engine-powered vehicle, even relatively low on fuel. You can always find an open station. Not so on this ...

Nissan expects to double battery energy capacity by 2015 13 hours ago on Autoblog Green

2010 Nissan Leaf - Click above for high-res image gallery If the ranges offered by the upcoming Nissan and Renault electric cars aren't as long as you'd like, you'll be pleased to learn they should double by 2015. Nissan is just about done developing an energy storage cell that has twice the ...

STUDY: "Range anxiety" not based on rational thinking 3 months ago on Autoblog Green

Conventional wisdom would tell you that an electric car with a range of 93 miles can be driven up to about, oh, 93 miles or so before needing to be recharged. Apparently, most drivers aren't comfortable with that idea. According to a study performed a few years back by Aerovironment and Tokyo ...

At Witz' End - Range Anxiety Q&A II 5 months ago on Autoblog Green

I really stepped in it last time by stating that GM never owned patent rights to Ovonic's NiMH batteries and never sold them to an oil company, and that no one sued Toyota. I believed those statements to be true at the time, but several of you straightened me out. However, since that complex ...

At Witz' End - Range Anxiety Q&A 7 months ago on Autoblog Green

There was a lot of feedback (50 comments at last count) to my column on EV range anxiety, some thoughtful and intelligent, some not. The few who accuse me of being anti-electric vehicles, which I definitely am not, were not. Neither were the two (same guys each time) touting the idiotic conspiracy ...

At Witz' End: My night with range anxiety 8 months ago on Autoblog Green

I left the dinner meeting around 9:00, with home roughly 60 miles away...no challenge for an engine-powered vehicle, even relatively low on fuel. You can always find an open station. Not so on this 1997 night. I was driving an EV1 development vehicle freshly equipped with an experimental ...


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