Schoenfeld wrote:
Cars: 2015 is the date when the Nickel-metal-hydride patent, which is held by Chevron, is void. That type of battery is IMHO the only type that can be used on an electric car, as lead-acid is too heavy, and Li-Ion doesn't live long enough to justify an investment of 15-20k USD into a battery pack, as such an investment would have to last "a lifetime of the car". Li-Ion fades away after a few hundred charge/discharge cycles, but Nimh has no memory effect.
There is something better than NiMH : the aluminium battery, check that out:
http://www.europositron.com/en/index.htmlCombine this battery with a fuel burner and a combustion chamber covered with very efficient thermo-electric chips
from Borealis:
http://www.powerchips.gi/ and you have a 1L/100km car.
I also do hope that we will have solved the energy crisis thanks to Mr Eric Lerner and its amazing dense plasma focus fusion device :
http://www.focusfusion.org.
I really recommend watching the video at google talks:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1518007279479871760&q=Google+tech+talks+lerner&pr=goog-slRegards,
Frederic
