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Volvo: PML FlightLink is working "exclusively" with us (Zap-X delayed?) {Autoblog Green}
Jan 22nd 2008 7:44PM ZAP is a vaporware/stock-scam company. No surprise here.
Will America lose the "electric car race" to China? {Autoblog Green}
Jan 7th 2008 4:39PM ::yawn:: I think we're forgetting that ZAP's main product is press releases. Come on, lets all generate some more unfounded excitement about ZAP so that more chumps go buy ZAP stock and make their executives richer, yay!
http://www.autobloggreen.com/2007/07/12/san-jose-paper-says-zap-might-soon-climb-out-of-debt-but-that-d/
Tesla introduces Energy Storage Systems division {Autoblog Green}
May 23rd 2007 2:51PM @ AES
In one of Tesla's blogs they talk about how the total usable life of a lithium cell decreases dramatically when it gets hot, that's why they keep them at room temperature in the Tesla pack. It has no use for the Altair Nano cells have high energy density only at high temperatures if you have to replace your battery pack after 2 years!
I really hope that Altair Nano develops an amazing cell and figures out a way to produce them cheaply and in high volumes - so that America has a home-grown solution and don't become dependent on Asia for batteries - but for now the Altair cell is still an emerging technology, with high initial costs etc, and Tesla needs a production-ready technology, NOW. I'm sure that, 5-6 years from now, when the Altair cells are tried-and-trued, Tesla would regard them as a serious possibility.
