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Re: (ET) AGM, Nicad,NiMH, & regular lead acid golf cart batteries
On 17 Sep 2006 at 0:31, David Roden wrote:
> NiMH batteries in sizes appropriate to the ET would be crushingly
> expensive.
I neglected to mention that usable NiMH batteries are virtually
unavailable,
regardless of price. Ovonics (now Cobasys, a joint venture with - ahem -
Chevron Oil) controls the licensing of NiMH technology. They refuse to
license anyone to build NiMH batteries in a size or capacity usable in a
battery EV. Only one company, Gold Peak, has a license which allows it to
build large NiMH batteries, and that's because they purchased the license
before the restriction was added.
David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA
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